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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Interviews
Electric Eel Shock - Maybe I think, They Can Beat Nirvana (Xavier's longer version)
Professional angling, making false teeth and a Japanese Karaoke champion? Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Live Music
The Guillemots @ Glasgow ABC
Perhaps it's the soporific nature of the band's outpourings that makes listening to a whole assemblage in one setting simply too much. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
ReviewsScissors For Lefty - Underhanded Romance
The faster, louder moments are the finest, as they are often offset by softer melodies that bob and weave around paced, rhythmic drums and guitar. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
ReviewsHayseed Dixie - You Wanna See Something Really Scary?
Out the day before Halloween, this mini-album features some inspired silliness Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Interviews
Jet - Return of the Great Pretenders?
Really, we don't give a shit, we write songs for ourselves, and if other people like them that's great. We're not worried about success, that's not why we write and, if you're writing to sell records you're not going to get anywhere. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Live Music
Juliette and the Licks @ ABC
Lewis tears into her songs with vein-popping conviction Read more »| 12 Nov 2006
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Reviews
The Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy!
An underworld of crime, desperation and hard luck. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Live Music
Defiance @ Ohio
it's a bunch of real people Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Reviews
Disturbed - Land Of Confusion
Please, quick, someone turn it off, or hand over some gaffer tape and a nail gun. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Reviews
Vincent Vincent and the Villians - Johnny Two Bands
Quirky, wholesome fun Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Reviews
Brakes - The Beatific Visions
A solid collection of intelligent pop from Brighton's answer to the Travelling Wilburys... Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
ReviewsEvanescence - 'The Open Door'
a little darker, hopefully putting to rest those persistent Christianity rumours Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Reviews
Tim Finn - Couldn't Be Done
This is still a shiny little pop gem Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Live Music
Ed Harcourt @ The Classic Grand
It's the last night of the tour and I've decided to be obnoxious Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Interviews
Music for Heros and Fools (Print Version, possibly for December)
I don't see us getting a big budget and making music from endangered synthesizers and contact mics placed on the scalps of homeless people. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006