Music
The Skinny magazine music guide. We bring you the latest music highlights, gig reviews and previews, music videos, album reviews and features. Find exclusive interviews with local bands and international stars, bespoke playlists and video premieres.
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OpinionHero Worship: Ian Mackaye
Divorce's Andy Brown salutes a musician who refuses to compromise Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
ReviewsWe Are Enfant Terrible – Explicit Pictures
The debut from this French electro-indie trio comes across like a vaguely grumpy, morose version of Bis. Boy-girl vocals, shuffling disco beats, cheesy casio... Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
ReviewsThe Mojo Fins – Shake the Darkness
Quite why the worlds of post-rock and sensitive singer-songwriter balladry don’t meet more often is an enigma, as The Mojo Fins’ documentation of... Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
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Das Contras – Das Contras
Sounding like the soundtrack to a bandito showdown at a seventies lounge party, opening ditty Reckless Phase may try to be the life and soul of the party but... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
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Cults – Cults
The air of mystery surrounding New Yorker’s Cults has had the internet’s blogger brigade in somewhat of a frenzy, but just who are these fuzzy po... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
ReviewsElan Tamara - Organ EP
Elan Tamara is a Brit School graduate, but try not to hold it against her. Seems despite the institution’s strong track record for cultivating chart mo... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011
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Interviews
The Proposition: The Unbearable Shiteness of Being (...Signed)
Despite being the most coveted and enduring adolescent fantasy since Jessica Rabbit, in reality recording contracts are a minefield. In a contemporary musica... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
Reviews
BURNINGBeeS – goodseedbadsoil
Drifting and mingling in the nomadic manner, the musical projects of Neil Grant and Stuart Hobbs have been abundant, if short-lived. The former dabbled with ... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
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Juffage – Semicircle
Juffage, the solo project of Leeds’ Jeff T Smith, fits neatly into that category of dreamy indie-pop that Sparklehorse perfected years ago, but rather ... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
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Wiley – 100% Publishing
Wiley’s second album for Big Dada sees the rapper hedging his musical bets. A combination of the hardest, sickest underground grime rhythms and more co... Read more »| 04 Jun 2011 -
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Driver Drive Faster – Open House
If Open House sounds extraordinarily professional for a self-funded debut, it’s worth noting that three of Driver Drive Faster’s four bodies form... Read more »| 03 Jun 2011 -
Reviews
Woods – Sun and Shade
Woods have a very suitable name. From the head-nodding, foot-tapping, retro-sounding first chords of Sun and Shade, you realise you're spending time with a r... Read more »| 03 Jun 2011 -
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Samiyam – Sam Baker's Album
The second LP from LA-based instrumental hip-hop producer Samiyam thankfully evinces a far greater breadth of imagination than its title suggests. Sam Baker&... Read more »| 02 Jun 2011 -
Interviews
Sons and Daughters: “It’s the happy clappy bands that are the most fucked up"
With the help of Optimo's JD Twitch, Sons and Daughters explain why they've retreated to their dark corner Read more »| 02 Jun 2011 -
Reviews
Handsome Furs – Sound Kapital
We’re not exactly short of 80s revivalist electro-pop at the moment, so the prospect of another outfit who wear their debt to Depeche Mode on their sle... Read more »| 02 Jun 2011