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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InterviewsNew Blood: Die Hard
Not the John McClane nuts you were expecting, Glasgow trio Die Hard are a talented band of mysterons who arrived overnight with a Technicolor debut. We sat down for an introductory blether... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
Playlists
Under the Influence: School of Seven Bells
Benjamin Curtis, one half of New York dream pop duo School of Seven Bells and part-time guitarist for Michael Rother's Hallogallo, recommends a handful of his all-time favourite records Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
ReviewsVCMG – SSSS
SSSS represents one of the most intriguing reunions in the history of electronica, bringing Vince Clarke and Martin Gore back together for the first time sin... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
Live MusicDo Not Miss: Mark Lanegan Band @ O2 ABC, 9 March
Having cut a record with everyone but your mother (actually, better check that), modern bluesman Mark Lanegan returns – band in tow – to show off... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
Interviews
Lambchop: "I’m sure my doctors would prefer me to become a little more prudent"
As the world around him rushes from pillar to post, Lambchop's Kurt Wagner has always been happy to keep his own pace Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
Reviews
Yeti Lane – The Echo Show
Despite the repugnant title, psych-pop’s been carving out a respectable comeback of late. Following the release of 2009’s acclaimed eponymous deb... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012
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Reviews
Ceremony – Zoo
Hysteria, the lead single from Ceremony's Matador debut, hints towards an experience far removed from the grinding power-violence of the Californian quintet'... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
Reviews
Cast – Troubled Times
Cast have never been critical darlings. Even when Britpop was at its peak they were being written off as mere trad revivalists. But this never affected their... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
Reviews
The Magnetic Fields – Love at the Bottom of the Sea
Following the profile-raising 69 Love Songs, Stephin Merritt largely ditched the synthesisers that had characterised great swathes of the Magnetic Fields&rsq... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
Reviews
Mouse on Mars – Parastrophics
It’s six years since this German techno/post-rock duo released their last LP, Varcharz (five, if you count their work with Mark E Smith under the Von S... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
Reviews
The Stranglers – Giants
The first Stranglers LP since 2006’s Suite XVI explores some relatively unknown territories for the band, now in their 38th year. Freedom is Insane beg... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
ReviewsTeam Me – To the Treetops!
Oslo’s Team Me are overblown, over-excitable and, with the release of debut To the Treetops!, soon-to-be over here. The warmth of your welcome will var... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
ReviewsDry the River – Shallow Bed
Elbow, Arcade Fire, Jeff Buckley and Nick Drake. These are the highlights from a list of artists that Dry the River don’t bear any audible resemblance ... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights – March 2012
The drone daddy himself, Dylan Carlson brings the second half of his Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light opus to the capital as Earth take to The Caves on 8 ... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
Reviews
We Are Augustines – Rise Ye Sunken Ships
It’s hard not to admire Billy McCarthy, frontman and chief lyricist of New York band We Are Augustines. Their debut album is based loosely around the c... Read more »| 27 Feb 2012