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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InterviewsThe Billy Kelly Songwriting Award is open for submissions
Before its launch this month, the minds behind The Billy Kelly Songwriting Award explain what distinguishes the initiative from your average battle of the bands Read more »| 02 Mar 2012 -
Live MusicThe Metal Column – March 2012
Mainstream music has taken a couple of major blows in the past month. Whitney Houston – our favourite guilty pleasure – has become the latest vic... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
Reviews
Herzog – Cartoon Violence
The second LP from Cleveland, Ohio’s Herzog is a significant step forward from their 2010 debut Search; a record which sounded, by turns, like a band u... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
ReviewsKelvox1 – Grazed Red
Depending on how you look at it, Kelvox1 either occupy a genre-less zone of glitches and groans; or, paralactically, they’re saturated with genres, wit... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
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The Shins – Port of Morrow
Having shed all but one of their original line-up, The Shins' long-awaited follow up to 2007’s Wincing the Night Away is rather more of a musical man... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
InterviewsGrimes: "There’s no time to be repetitive”
Canadian bedroom-pop prodigy Grimes reveals the lengths she’s willing to go to realise her vision Read more »| 29 Feb 2012
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Interviews
Speech Debelle Quizzes Talib Kweli
She's a Mercury winning London MC with an inquisitive mind, he's a critically respected Brooklyn rapper with heavy opinions to offload. We put the two together... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
InterviewsThe Magnetic Fields: The Strange Powers of Stephin Merritt
Reluctant in interview but with a work ethic to make James Brown proud, The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt explains why he enjoys a good deadline Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
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Hooded Fang – Tosta Mista
To say Hooded Fang are retro is akin to saying Lemmy likes the odd drink. The Canadian outfit are quick to acknowledge their debt to the 60s and the explosio... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
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Tall Firs – Out Of It And Into it
Indie aristocracy all seem to agree that Tall Firs are a bit special. Having spent the last decade sharing stages with and impressing the likes of Shellac, S... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
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Swound! – Into the Sea
Choosing to package their debut full-length with a 76 minute in-the-studio documentary suggests the four brothers that make up Swound! aren’t lacking s... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
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Meshuggah – Koloss
Sweden’s – hang on, let’s just make that the planet's – foremost tech-metal architects return with their answer to ‘difficult s... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
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Soulfly – Enslaved
Anyone even vaguely familiar with Soulfly will probably know the drill by this point in the band's career, and indeed, those who have been following along ov... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
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Little Doses – Rock Riot Soul
It’s difficult to imagine how Snow Patrol could ever have served as the platform for creative quarrel (not if you dug Songs for Polarbears &ndas... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
Interviews
New Blood: Die Hard
Not the John McClane nuts you were expecting, Glasgow trio Die Hard are a talented band of mysterons who arrived overnight with a Technicolor debut. We sat down for an introductory blether... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012