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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ReviewsMaria McKee - Live Acoustic Tour 2006
Terrific, brilliant, excellent, marvellous and wonderful... Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
ReviewsLiam Frost and the Slowdown Family - Show Me How The Spectres Dance
disturbingly good Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
ReviewsJet - Shine On
The rock revolution is still in full swing, meaning there's a huge audience for any band that can actually play their instruments Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Live Music
Live Music Roundup for October
Howling Bells are exactly the kind of band you should be getting excited about. Go and see them Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
ReviewsPlacebo - Meds
a single for the staunch Placebo fan only Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Opinion
Xfm column October - Leave Emo Alone!
In clubs I've seen people furious at people dancing to Fall Out Boy, and at me for playing it! Read more »| 13 Oct 2006
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Live Music
The Black Keys @ ABC
This sort of hook-laden, straight up bluesy-rock really deserves a much wider audience. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Interviews
Why Bonobo's 'Days To Come' Feels So Real
a confident, rounded, multi-instrumental sound. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Live Music
Interview: James Yorkston - Sympathy for the Leopard
This one is definitely a James Yorkston album - all the arrangements are mine, I did most of the work! Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Live Music
Kelley Stoltz @ King Tuts
too polite, constrained and timid: no dazzling solos, no profound insights into life Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Reviews
The Answer - Under the Sky
Their influences are self-evident but The Answer are far from derivative. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Reviews
The Answering Machine - Oklahoma
a generic indie-pop romp, painfully dated and relying on a shop-worn average-guy personality and a four-square beat. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Reviews
Tina Dico - Give In
a facsimile of the emotional ballad, where the record sleeve is more interesting than the CD Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Reviews
Mississippi Witch - Just for Roosevelt
Mississippi Witch create a loud, surreal yet surprisingly addictive sound.
Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Reviews
Anne McCue - Koala Motel
the push to a more accessible sound often swamps her uniqueness and replaces intimacy with radio-friendly blandness. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006