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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ReviewsTwo Fingers – Stunt Rhythms
Over a sixteen-year career, Brazil’s Amon Tobin has demonstrated an unerring creative instinct which, combined with his painstaking attention to det... Read more »| 20 Sep 2012 -
Live MusicTorche / The Cosmic Dead @ O2 ABC2, 15 September
Our very own psych-kraut wizards The Cosmic Dead open with a free-form improvisational set. They're only three members strong tonight, but the combination ... Read more »| 19 Sep 2012 -
Live MusicBeirut / Daughter @ O2 ABC, 11 September
Built around Elena Tonra’s candid songwriting – a litany of break-ups and breakdowns in a doleful key – Daughter’s fragile sound cou... Read more »| 19 Sep 2012 -
InterviewsThe Gaslamp Killer: Neo-Beatnik Shaman
The Gaslamp Killer wants to “lead the youth” to enlightenment. He explains how his epic, psychedelic debut album Breakthrough heralds the dawn of a new Beatnik era Read more »| 17 Sep 2012 -
Reviews
Satellite Dub – Velikovsky Said EP
With a title that references a Russian psychiatrist and writer about comparative mythology, whose theories posited that the Earth had experienced several cat... Read more »| 17 Sep 2012 -
PlaylistsNETVERK – September 2012
In this month's NETVERK, we have a grumble about Soundcloud follow limits, and check out new music from the netlabel scene, featuring tracks from Tombz, Holobeams & Broken Machines, Mirrors, 80s Stallone and VS//YOUTHCLUB Read more »| 17 Sep 2012
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Reviews
kNIFE & fORK – The Higher You Get the Rarer the Vegetation
From Magic Band member to stints backing the likes of PJ Harvey, Eric Drew Feldman’s CV exudes pedigree. For kNIFE & Fork – a collaboration w... Read more »| 12 Sep 2012 -
Interviews
Waxing Lyrical: WHY?'s Yoni Wolf on his favourite couplets
As a man who appreciates the form more than most, we asked Yoni Wolf to compile some of his favourite lyrical verses. "Feel free to edit the fuck out of this," he said. We never touched a thing... Read more »| 12 Sep 2012 -
Interviews
Mumps, Rhymes, and Life: WHY?'s Yoni Wolf in interview
After a few years out of the spotlight, WHY?'s Yoni Wolf steps inside the confessional booth, sort of Read more »| 11 Sep 2012 -
Interviews
Introducing CHVRCHES: "We’re very aware of what we have to do"
As the hype machine attempts to propel them skywards, CHVRCHES explain why their feet remain clamped firmly to the ground Read more »| 11 Sep 2012 -
Opinion
Sun Goes Down: Five Festivals That Made Our Summer
At times it felt like we were storm chasing, but we wouldn't change a damn thing about festival season 2012. Tasteless holographic Tupac and all. Here's five of our highlights... Read more »| 11 Sep 2012 -
Playlists
The Hot Club Nice n Sleazy Music Playlist: Guest Selector
As Nice'n'Sleazy's garage rock social turns 5, DJs Nobodaddy and Rafla present the soundtrack. "We pictured a dimly lit Lynchian drinking den with dirgy grimy body music playing," says Nobodaddy. "Five years later and we're still ruining people's lives.." Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
Interviews
Battery Face: Playing By Their Own Rules
Originally hailing from the northeast, Battery Face don't take themselves too seriously – instead they just want to play their own kind of "loud party rock" and make girls dance. But there's still a hard edge to this resolutely self-sufficient power trio Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
Festivals
In Pictures: Music Language Festival 2012
Music Language Festival 2012 A glimpse of the action from the Music Language Festival 2012 in Glasgow, 1 & 2 September. Photography by Neil Jarvie Read more »| 07 Sep 2012 -
Interviews
Amanda Palmer: Getting A Kickstart
With the help of her enthusiastic fanbase, Amanda Palmer has already made a splash this year. Ahead of the release of her new album, Theatre Is Evil, she spoke to The Skinny about crowd-funding, house parties and her new-found invincibility Read more »| 06 Sep 2012