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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InterviewsKing Biscuit Time
"It's my job to sit here and tell people I've got a label with Alan McGee, the reality is that I haven't got a clue what that involves!" Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Interviews
He Poos Clouds: Owen Pallett AKA Final Fantasy Interviewed
Is He Poos Clouds really about the eight Schools of magic in Dungeons & Dragons? "Okay, one Elf, a dark Elf, in the entire record." Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Live Music
Junkbox @ Cabaret Voltaire
armed with a vicious artillery of stompy, efficient blues-punk, complete with spiky axe-attacks and slide-guitar massacres Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Live Music
Archie Bronson Outfit @ Cabaret Voltaire
The band don't lack in terms of adrenaline Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
ReviewsThe Organ - Grab That Gun
Will remind the more elderly statesman of some lost mid-eighties club night Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Reviews
The Black Keys - Chulahoma
Orgasmic glue-tight rock n' roll, in grinding, gritty and hypnotic blues Read more »| 16 May 2006
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ReviewsThe Black Heart Procession - Spell
The songs begin to blend together Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Reviews
Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
The world faces a far greater threat than bird flu or the US reich Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Reviews
Spinto Band - Nice & Nicely Done
Like a threesome involving Stephen Malkmus, Conor Oberst and a more passive and directing Wayne Coyne Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Reviews
How To Swim - The Littlest Orgasm
A wonderful blend of dementedly twisting country burlesque that froths with fervency and zeal. Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
ReviewsDr. John - Mercernary
Mercernary achieves Dr John's goal of paying tribute to Mercer but also goes some distance to reaffirming his own genius Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
ReviewsCalexico - Garden Ruin
By far their most accessible and mass-market friendly album to date Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Reviews
Anti-Flag - For Blood and Empire
Welcomely lacks the expected airs of teen angst and toilet humour so explicit in your common contemporary act of a similar aesthetic Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Live Music
The Gussets @ Subway Cowgate
Live music should be a show, a fuck-fest and lobotomize you of modern society's atrocities Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Reviews
Richard Ashcroft - Music is Power
Retaining an uplifting vibe, but never reaching the powerful effect of orchestration his previous day job had mastered Read more »| 16 May 2006