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
Public Symphony - Breakthrough
The song, with its undeniable similarities to much of Coldplay's back catalogue, lacks originality
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Reviews
Hot Club De Paris - Drop It 'Til It Pops
Their distinctive blend of speed-indie and day -in-the-life lyrical stylings, along with their close harmonic singing approach results in an amiable sound
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Interviews
The Pendulums
Last week Mike and his band mates were up a tree, playing a strange instrument called a strumstick to an audience of tiny little horses... Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Live Music
Bossk @ Henry's Cellar Bar
a weighty selection of effects pedals, Spartan, low-key lighting and the whiff of burning incense Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Reviews
Soccer Team - Volunteered Civility and Professionalism
the background to some lazy autumnal afternoon, rather than the soundtrack to a hedonistic summer night Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Live Music
White Heat @ Cabaret Voltaire
a heady mix of frenetic chord progressions, punchy bass lines and foot stomping drums Read more »| 12 Dec 2006
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ReviewsIsis - In The Absence of Truth
their distinct formula is here in abundance Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Live Music
Live Music Roundup for December
Bear witness to the last rites of Uncle John and Whitelock Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Interviews
The Rushes
I'm going to write a Christmas tune about the day Christ was born àthat'll shut people up. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Reviews
Various - The Best KIDS Christmas Album In The World… Ever Ever Ever!!!
With The Best KIDS Christmas Album... your ice-cool indie status will remain intact Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Interviews
Them's The Brakes (Web)
Fresh from the release of their second album, The Beatific Visions, Brighton quartet Brakes took time out to chat to The Skinny about blagging, the Bible and scary porcupines. Rock on.
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Live Music
Vega 4 @ King Tut's
They carve out their niche early in the show and display confidence and assuredness in spades Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Reviews
Guantanamo Bay - Static
Pseudo-serious vocals soar over buzzing guitars in sublime ways. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Humanzi - Out On A Wire
Nothing much to write home about Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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To My Boy - The Grid
Maximo Park with a malfunctioning Gameboy in their sweaty palms Read more »| 12 Dec 2006