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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InterviewsTrail of Dead vs Rival Schools
As ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead and Rival Schools prepare to share a tour-bus for a co-headlining tour of Europe, Conrad Keely makes his journalistic debut with a get-to-know Q&A for Walter Schreifels Read more »| 06 Apr 2011 -
ReviewsPrefuse 73 – The Only She Chapters
Followers of Guillermo Scott Herren’s work as leftfield electronica conjurer Prefuse 73 will naturally expect the unexpected, but his latest full-lengt... Read more »| 04 Apr 2011 -
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Ancient Astronauts - Into Bass and Time
Hip hop, in recent years, has brought us grime, crunk, hyphy and footwork. Producers like Missy Elliot, Timbaland, Kanye, Jay-Z, The Neptunes, Wiley and Ti... Read more »| 04 Apr 2011 -
Live Music
Cry Parrot presents: John Maus @ Mono, 29 March
The loop pedal artisan is becoming a busy genre in its own right, but Remember Remember’s Graeme Ronald, performing solo tonight, is comfortably ahead ... Read more »| 04 Apr 2011 -
Interviews
Starter For Eleven: Adam Goldberg
Facing a pop quiz on the phenomenon of the actor turned musician, Adam Goldberg battles for his supper Read more »| 02 Apr 2011 -
ReviewsLow – C'mon
Low have been making beautiful albums for almost two decades now, but ninth effort C’mon may stand as their most gorgeous yet. The Minnesota trio have ... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011
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Mono/Poly – Manifestations EP
Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder imprint does a solid line in off-kilter hip-hop productions with soul; the label counts among its prodigious ranks the like... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
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The Imagineers - See As I Say
Glasgow 4-piece The Imagineers’ debut EP is nothing if not a promising start, an intriguing blend of 50s rock’n’roll, Scottish twang and ci... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
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The Goldberg Sisters – The Goldberg Sisters
Adam Goldberg is The Hebrew Hammer, director of I Love Your Work, Julie Delpy’s squeeze in Two Days in Paris – oh, and Chandler Bing’s nutt... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
ReviewstUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l
How do you follow a debut that fashioned pieces of Dictaphone recordings into a dog-eared – but utterly bewitching – showpiece of low-fidelity po... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
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Something Beginning With L – The Listed Building EP
Don't let the opener of London trio Something Beginning With L’s debut EP deter you from further investigation. Angel Sized might prove to be a... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
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Pat Jordache – Future Songs
Future Songs was first released as a low-quality, self-mastered cassette last summer. It looked destined to remain in such rough form when Pat Jordache&rsquo... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
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Le Reno Amps – Appetite
Amongst the more perplexing criticisms to crop up in reviews is ‘X is not life-changing’. How much personal tumult does a listener actually crave... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights – April 2011
Attention youths! Emotional guitar rock this way comes courtesy of Aberdeen (via Brighton) three-piece The X-certs. A solid rhythm section, battle-tested alt... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
Live Music
The Metal Column – April 2011
As we slink into April, rolling news coverage continues to resemble about a dozen simultaneous disaster movies. Whilst continuing to be pummelled unmercifull... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011