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
Paul Leonard-Morgan - Film Tales
They seemed so poignant when Matt Damon was dry humping Natalie Portman! Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
ReviewsMississippi Witch - Black Gamble
Bursting with raw blues power. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta - Ragged Garden
Proves the matrimony of chalk and cheese can be done with subtlety and beauty. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
ReviewsDean Owens - Whisky Hearts
Difficult to get worked up about.
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British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
The enigmatic Brighton four-piece have regained their edge. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
ReviewsAidan John Moffat - I Can Hear Your Heart
Moffat still has some maudlin tales of drunken sex trysts to get off his chest. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008
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Actress Hands - Boys Need Jazz
The lyric ""Despite the stitches on your jawline, didn't we have fun last night"" is surely a design for life Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Interviews
Black Mountain - A Stormy High
Axl Rose might have a fanbase so large that he can afford to shed a few thousand members for every month he postpones the release of the Chinese Democracy, but when today's fickle downloader wants more music from their favourite new band no sooner than they've had their first fix, the two years that Vancouver quintet Black Mountain and their fierce brand of psych rock have spent away from the public eye could have cost them dearly. Now they're back with what could prove to be their career-defining LP, Amber Webber and Matt Camirand tell Dave Kerr what kept them in the game. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Live MusicQueens of the Stone Age @ The Academy, 28 Nov
It pains me to type it: but lamenting the Queens of old could become the way of the future Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Interviews
Henry Rollins - The Everyman
With the coming election year in his crosshairs, punk rock legend Henry Rollins tells The Skinny exactly why the present social and cultural order in the US continues to give him ample fodder for his spoken word tours Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Live Music
Minus the Bear @ King Tuts, 12 Dec
More energy required, perhaps Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Playlists
The Easy Gramophone - January
5 free songs you can legally download, listen to and love.
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Interviews
Okkervil River - our life is not a movie
SF: Finbarr Bermingham catches up with Will Sheff to learn that life really does imitate art sometimes, even if the author is in denial
PQ: ""I don't like to put on airs. I'm just a rock singer!"" Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Interviews
Make Model
The New This' or 'The Next Big That'? Whatever, Finbarr Bermingham encounters substance galore in the Glasgow sextet's corner Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Reviews
Neutral Milk Hotel – On Avery Island
On Avery Island is a rare and welcome opportunity to explore their raw brilliance, pre-Anne Frank Neutral Milk Hotel were, and thanks to this series of reis... Read more »| 06 Jan 2008