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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Live MusicMetronomy @ Cabaret Voltaire, 29 Oct
Metronomy belong to that new breed of band: the band who love synthesizers; who make music with the party in mind; who do remixes; who probably started as on... Read more »| 03 Nov 2008 -
ReviewsThe Soda Boys - Everybody Cha Cha
How is it that a single featuring the vocal delights of David Jude Jolicoeur from the legendary De La Soul can be so below average? De La Soul were truly ori... Read more »| 03 Nov 2008 -
Reviews
Mirror Mirror - The Society For The Advancement Of Inflammatory Consciousness
There are more than enough moments of smirk-inducing bravery to keep this record interesting throughout Read more »| 03 Nov 2008 -
ReviewsGeneral Fiasco - Rebel Get By
If feeling generous, General Fiasco might warrant the epithets “competent”, or perhaps “unpretentious”, but one listen to the vapid indie-by-numbers of Rebel... Read more »| 03 Nov 2008 -
Reviews
Gabby Young and Other Animals - Bear With Me
Inarguably original and difficult to categorise, with a great set of pipes Read more »| 03 Nov 2008 -
ReviewsVoo - Same Mistakes/What Will Happen and When
The press release for Same Mistakes/What Will Happen And When is a series of brightly coloured statements (shock! - ed), ranging from the informative (&ldquo... Read more »| 03 Nov 2008
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Live Music
The Dälek of Enlightenment
Many players, labels, fads and facets have come and gone since Dälek came to play with rugged beats and dystopian rhymes ten years ago. Will Brooks tells Dave Kerr why they’ve survived. Read more »| 31 Oct 2008 -
InterviewsDeSalvo: Schizophonic
DeSalvo elicit as much fear as they do admiration from those privy to their catharsis Read more »| 31 Oct 2008 -
Interviews
Can He Still Kick It?: Five Degrees of Q-Tip
Next Monday (3 Nov, 2008), hip-hop legend Q-Tip (known in some circles as Kamaal the Abstract, but his mum shouts Jonathan Davis out the back door at tea tim... Read more »| 31 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
Guru's Jazzmatazz @ The Voodoo Rooms, 6 Nov
Bugsy Malone meets Louis Armstrong in a hip-hop odyssey for classy cats Read more »| 31 Oct 2008 -
Reviews
UpCdownC - Embers
The considerable intelligence underlying the songwriting is always apparent Read more »| 31 Oct 2008 -
Reviews
Parts & Labor – Receivers
Brooklyn’s monopoly on harbouring some of the finest contemporary bands on the planet continues with this compelling curveball from noise-punk combo Pa... Read more »| 30 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
ballboy @ The Mill
They seem to have been about forever, but November sees local indie favourites ballboy make their debut at The Mill with a much anticipated double header. Songwriter in chief Gordon McIntyre spoke to Finbarr Bermingham about recent developments in ballboy's world. Read more »| 30 Oct 2008 -
Playlists
A Muso’s Top 10: Bonehead
Since his departure from Oasis at the turn of the millennium, the whereabouts of Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs have remained a mystery – ‘somewhere in ... Read more »| 30 Oct 2008 -
Interviews
Death Cab Have the Facts and They're Voting: Change
The USA is in its biggest economic crisis in years. Hurricanes are literally tearing the country's infrastructure apart. The upcoming election is the most pivotal in years. Oh, and there's a war going on? Finbarr Bermingham finds Death Cab For Cutie's Chris Walla with a head full of steam Read more »| 30 Oct 2008