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 MusicMetal Up Your Ass - March, 2008
Dust down your musket, pull on those combats and wage hostilities at the finest in heavy gigs in Scotland this month. Easy on the slam dancing though, eh Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
ReviewsThe Long Blondes - Century
If you can't stand reinvention in the name of chart-bound populism then this new century's definitely not for you... Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
ReviewsYeasayer - Wait For The Summer
Will wedge your mind open to the possibility that even panpipes are acceptable in music Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
ReviewsElbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
An extraordinarily accomplished and thoroughly engaging piece of Mancunian songsmithery Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Interviews
Autechre: Dancers in the Dark
With leotards on standby, The Skinny prepped itself for a deep and meaningful with Autechre's Sean Booth, and was pleasantly surprised by the plain speaking Mancunian's willingness to chat about his opinions on music, MySpace and getting smoked out with his mates. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Interviews
WHY? - The Lexical Contortionist
Why?'s Yoni Wolf is a master of the abstract image. Creating a world where sex acts occur in German sports facilities and Bar Mitzvahs, and sensory organs catch alight and are removed by house pets, Matt Gollock stumbles his way through the convoluted pathways of Mr Wolf's psyche Read more »| 06 Mar 2008
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Interviews
Tuning Into The Dials
I used to think there was a line in the sand, signed and unsigned, but it's just not like that now - Joe Hendry Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Playlists
A Muso's Top 10: Idlewild
Having recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of the release of their first record with a Best Of, frontman Roddy gave us a rundown of what's been rocking his car, kitchen and living room at Chez Woomble Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Reviews
Land of Talk - Speak to Me Bones
A lot of fuss over nothing. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Live Music
Queens Of The Stone Age @ The Corn Exchange, 9 Feb
There's a pleasing mechanical veneer to the Queens tonight, though you have to wonder what's making them tick. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Live Music
Okkervil River at Cabaret Voltaire
For a band whose best art recounts the business of individuals, Okkervil River's live performance is a celebration of the unit, showcasing their collective excellence as a band Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Live Music
Enon @ Cabaret Voltaire
Brilliantly crafted punk rock. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Live Music
British Sea Power @ The Arches, 26 Jan
A thumbnail sketch of what attracted us to British Sea Power in the first place. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Live Music
Black Francis @ The Garage, 10 Feb
A merely satisfactory performance given extra credence due to Black's impressive legacy. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Interviews
Meshuggah: Destroy, Erase, Improve
Tech metal, math metal, call it what you will. Fact is, the ill rhythms of this Swedish quintet have influenced too many of the great bastions of modern metal to mention. Tomas Haake tells Jamie Borthwick why Meshuggah are still the underdogs Read more »| 06 Mar 2008