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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Reviews
Puerto Muerto - Songs Of Muerto County Relived
Hauntingly beautiful at times, melancholic at others, Puerto Muerto is soporose and quixotic all at once. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Live Music
The Datsuns @ Cabaret Voltaire
Rock n roll was never meant to be this boring. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Live Music
Chicks on Speed / The Wraiths @ The Caves
paint and strobe were splashed everywhere, and nudity erupted on a wide scale
""they are the channelled spirits of two fourteenth century monks"" Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Live Music
Calexico & Beirut @ ABC
Calexico may be tonight's headliners, but in the months to come it'll be the sound of Beirut that fiddles its way into your heart. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Live MusicThe Twilight Singers @ Oran Mor, 12 Dec
Bar-room keyboards tinkle in the softer moments, the band are by turns reflective and aggressive Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Interviews
New Blood: Lights. Action!
We'll always be the outsiders, but we like that. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006
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ReviewsTwilight Singers - A Stitch in Time EP
testimony to the fact that Twilight Singers specialise in providing drowsy narcoleptic acid jazz and straight up euphoric adrenaline shots to the heart Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Playlists
The Easy Gramophone ft Swan Lake
5 songs you can legally download and listen to - free Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
InterviewsTenacious D - Road Warriors
Authors of the greatest song in the world? Practitioners of the cock pushup? The D odyssey continues with their recently released debut film and accompanying... Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Interviews
Metal Up Your Ass - December, 2006
What else could Santa possibly have in his sack that beats this line-up? Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Interviews
Riders on the Storm
"You can't figure Jim out...he was a genius, but he was a troubled genius. He was so smart, but he was too smart and he didn't know what to do with it..." - Robby Krieger Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
OpinionThe Skinny's Soundtrack to 2006
There's nothing quite like a raging brawl over what constitutes a good record to get the old adrenaline pumping at Skinny HQ: Stones or Strokes? Fantomas or Fornby? Beasties or Belafonte? Why, just the other day, the Sounds team were at it again for the simple sake of figuring out who had recorded the album of the year. You know we all emerged from the experience a physically and psychologically battered and bruised mess, but we got the results and even had a wee blether with some of the creators of the records we dug in 2006. Behold, the Skinny's second self-indulgent end of year album poll... Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Playlists
A Muso's Top Ten: Ben Kweller
Just before getting back to his fatherhood duties, the nicest guy in rock advised us to check out the following Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Live Music
The Glasgow School
everything from free jazz through to perfect pop is echoing through the halls bedecked with holly Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Interviews
Always Read The Label: SL Records
"We've had the head of A & R at a major record company calling us asking how we got such good publicity for Dawn of the Replicants' last album!" - Ed Pybus Read more »| 12 Dec 2006