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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ReviewsAlain Johannes – Spark
When Alain Johannes' wife Natasha Shneider finally lost her battle with cancer in 2008 he set out to commemorate her with a collection of songs that he felt ... Read more »| 05 May 2011 -
ReviewsWild Beasts – Smother
If they weren't tired of the comparisons already, Wild Beasts' third studio album guarantees they will continue to be talked of in the same breath as Talk Ta... Read more »| 04 May 2011 -
Interviews
Lady North: Technical Ecstasy
From hatching schemes in a Tesco car-park to playing gigs for Sunday league footballers, the only way is weird for mathematic riff magicians Lady North Read more »| 04 May 2011 -
InterviewsThe Inquisition: Bill Callahan
The Artist Formerly Known As Smog explains his own Apocalypse Read more »| 04 May 2011 -
ReviewsThree Trapped Tigers - Route One or Die
Fans of Hella, Lightning Bolt et al take note: on their debut Route One or Die, Londoners Three Trapped Tigers present a remarkably accomplished contribution... Read more »| 04 May 2011 -
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Amon Tobin – Isam
Ninja Tune's stalwart producer Amon Tobin remains something of an enigma – owing to a reputation largely indebted to the Brazilian's unique brand of sa... Read more »| 04 May 2011
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Interviews
Wild Beasts: "We don't have to scream from the top of our lungs anymore"
With the follow-up to their Mercury-nominated Two Dancers due to drop any day, Wild Beasts' Hayden Thorpe talks progress, success, and Bono's big yap Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
Reviews
The Dirty Dozen – May 2011
With the obvious exception of Beady Eye, this month’s singles pile gets a shed more lovin’ thrown at it than by our local rock stars of recent times. Well, summer time is on the way after all, a natural aphrodisiac as the Fresh Prince once claimed Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
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Citizens – Try Harder EP
Citizens have at last captured the sheer raw aggression of their live shows Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
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Efrim Menuck – Plays "High Gospel"
As a founding member of both Godspeed You! Black Emperor and A Silver Mount Zion (under its many varied monickers) Efrim Menuck has spent 15 years as a centr... Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
Reviews
Enablers – Blown Realm and Stalled Explosions
Enablers’ mélange of stream-of-consciousness poetry and juddering math-rock was never going to make them stadium-fillers, but there was always s... Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
Interviews
Everything's Getting Older: a track by track guide
To celebrate the imminent release of his collaboration with musical polymath Bill Wells, fellow Falkirk troubadour Aidan Moffat introduces Everything's Getting Older Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
Live Music
That Fucking Tank @ 13th Note, 24 April
The proto-industrial clamour of Rollor has plenty of strengths, like a drum machine that’ll make the fillings in your teeth rattle, and Matt Harris&rsq... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
ReviewsAustra – Feel It Break
With a tense phantom-like clasp, Katie Stelmanis’ icy vocals disarm the listener, seeping under one’s skin like anaesthetic. Her operatic procliv... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
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James Pants - James Pants
James Pants' latest album was recorded in his parents' basement— his parents being two Presbyterian ministers— a fact which is both at home and a... Read more »| 02 May 2011