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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ReviewsShonen Knife – Pop Tune
Pop Tune is Shonen Knife’s 18th album. Ponder that a moment: the Osaka Ramones have now comfortably overtaken the actual Ramones’ recorded ou... Read more »| 02 Jul 2012 -
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Wussy – Buckeye
Though Buckeye is Wussy’s debut international release, there’s plenty else to explore should it connect with your tastes. Since forming over a... Read more »| 02 Jul 2012 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights – July 2012
From Wu-Tang's 'Legends' tour to the live return of The Unwinding Hours, we shave the cream off July's gig calendar Read more »| 02 Jul 2012 -
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Milk Maid – Mostly No
If it needed confirmation, Milk Maid’s second album firmly validates Martin Cohen’s decision to tap out from a waning Nine Black Alps to fron... Read more »| 02 Jul 2012 -
Live MusicNas @ HMV Picture House, 26 June
“Where all my Bravehearts at?” Nas tasks this sleepy school night crowd from the get-go, arriving with a full band (simply known as ‘Z&rsqu... Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
Live MusicAdam Stafford / Rick Redbeard @ The Captain's Rest, 22 June
The small basement stage at The Captain’s Rest makes a perfect setting for solo performers; tonight we have three of them. Each has no problem in cap... Read more »| 29 Jun 2012
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Playlists
Under the Influence: Shirley Manson
Garbage's ever-outspoken frontwoman presents a personal guide to ten essential albums by her favourite female vocalists Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
Live MusicThe Metal Column – July 2012
The highlights of July's upcoming metal gigs revealed! Featuring Unsane, Baroness, Sufferinfuck and many, many more Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
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Meursault – Something for the Weakened
Meursault’s third album exhibits much of what has made the band so appealing thus far: a broad range of beautifully arranged instrumentation; Neil Pe... Read more »| 28 Jun 2012 -
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Mission of Burma – Unsound
Perhaps few would’ve predicted that Mission of Burma’s ‘one-off reunion show’ in 2002 would lead to anything beyond maybe a smatteri... Read more »| 28 Jun 2012 -
ReviewsMike Patton and the Ictus Ensemble – Laborintus II
Mike Patton’s public love affair with Italian music continues apace with a fine performance of this seminal avant garde work. Ostensibly written to cel... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
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Konx-Om-Pax – Regional Surrealism
Having seen the videos he has made for the likes of Rustie, Hudson Mohawke and Martyn, you might have expected Konx-Om-Pax's debut album to be full of hype... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
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Jeremiah Jae – Raw Money Raps
A psychedelic, multi-layered, intentionally awkward piece of work, Raw Money Raps is the direct descendent of Madlib and Dilla’s groundbreaking freefor... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
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Twin Shadow – Confess
After debut Forget had us falling headlong in love with Twin Shadow’s intimate synth-pop, it’s hard not to approach Confess with second-date jit... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
Live Music
OFF! / Trash Talk @ King Tut's, 21 June
Trash Talk open up a night of quickfire hardcore with the menacing dissonance of Hash Wednesday – a sludgy, doom-laden number far removed from the res... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012