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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ReviewsThe Academy Is... - Almost Here
The concert might be okay àif you're smashed on cheap cider and abhor any creativity or depth in your music.
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Live Music
William Douglas - Nektar @ Edinburgh
an old man beside the fire quite wisely commented ""It's one thing to be able to write a song but it's another to be able to perform"" Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
ReviewsThe Darkness - Is It Just Me?
as exciting as a flacid penis Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Reviews
Bon Jovi - Welcome to Wherever You Are
This record might as well be called Shut Up and Consume You Bastards Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Reviews
Son of Dork - Eddie's Song
Give me twenty minutes and I could teach a monkey to write a song that would sound like Purple Haze next to this shit Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
ReviewsThe Far Cries - Stepping/The Edge
Over-cooked and hollow Read more »| 15 Feb 2006
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Reviews
The Kooks - You Don't Love Me
The Kooks have been pre-ordained for big things, and this is sure to help them on their way.
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Interviews
New Blood: Findo Gask
They are committed to dislocating themselves from the orthodoxies of the three piece, absorbing new instruments voraciously into their elaborate live set up, each one adding another sweetening dimension. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
InterviewsMogwai Unleash The Beast
The band, sick with nerves in the studio for the first time, solved the problem by stripping naked, whacking a few Mitsubishis and forming a supportive circle in the toilets. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Interviews
The Strokes Emerge from the Woods
while the hype merchants in the media have moved on to fresh meat to pollute, the world seems just about ready to clutch Casablancas and co to their bosom once again Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Interviews
The Cribs
This will be a decisive year for The Cribs to prove they are greater than the sum of their influences. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Interviews
The Acute
"We're the most beautiful thing in Scotland today because we are so fucking honest and true in what we do!" Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Interviews
Interview - Broken Social Scene
"We do something that's very beautiful and serious ... but we don't take it too seriously." Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Live Music
Live Music Roundup - February
Warped Detroit visionaries ADULT. are the soundtrack to your most beautiful, paranoid fantasies. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Live Music
Pop Up @ 13th Note, 12 Jan
Pop Up combine showmanship with idiosyncratic innovation wrapped around a cool crispy centre Read more »| 15 Feb 2006