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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Live Music
Lord Bishop Rocks!
the rock swagger and smirk, the hats, and the extreme gyrating together inspire you to lose your shit at times, then stand back in awe at others Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Live Music
Live Music Roundup (NOW WITH ADDED PEATBOG FAERIES)
ADULT. are the soundtrack to your most beautiful, paranoid fantasies. Go and see them, they're really fucking good. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
ReviewsRichard Ashcroft - Break The Night With Colour
A decade from Britpop glory finds Richard Ashcroft sounding like Robbie Williams aping Bono. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Reviews
Sunshine Variety Club - The Girl with the Crooked Smile/Bone Idle Pop Idol
While some may refer to it as ""twee-indie-pish"", I simply can't halt my infatuation with the genre Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
ReviewsHayley Hutchinson - Independently Blue
It's a song of confusion, of melancholy, but Hutchinson's friendly coo doesn't express anything but pleasantries Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
ReviewsShout Out Louds- Please Please Please
You can't mistake a definite Cardigans influence to this resolutely sunny, cheerful pop song Read more »| 15 Feb 2006
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Reviews
The Early Years - All Ones And Zeros
Spiralling, backward guitars hitch a ride on an insistent Death in Vegas-style rhythm Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Reviews
Boy Kill Boy - Back Again
delivers a standard synth-laden indie-angst sound that falls somewhere in between Hard-Fi and ehm, Hard-Fi Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Reviews
Kubb - Grow
If I was middle-aged and didn't know anything about music, I would probably think this was ace Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
ReviewsYour Vegas - Flybuzz
The dubious lyrics, the sweeping guitar, the earnest falsettos - Your Vegas have it all. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Reviews
The Magic Numbers - I See You, You See Me
a big, tasteless musical stew Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Interviews
Interview - OK GO
What cost the princely sum of $24 to make and was intended as a surprise treat for fans at live shows is fast becoming a fascinating piece of music history. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Interviews
Interview - Bricolage
Bricolage, a term that means making art from whatever is in front of you, are much more than pilfering magpies Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Interviews
Rise Up - Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Jan 7
Once again, no one came close to OBE tonight. Somebody sign these lads, for god's sake Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Interviews
Interview - Robert Pollard - From a Compound Eye
Matador wanted to keep me on as a solo artist but we had a difference of opinion on a project that I later thought was silly. So I decided to go elsewhere. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006