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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ReviewsVarious Artists – OIB Split Series Volume 4
Calories open this split with its most immediately accessible offering, three minutes of rousing rock with hooks-aplenty, an aesthetic continued by Tubelord&... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
ReviewsThis Will Destroy You – Tunnel Blanket
Technological innovation continues, inexorably, to undermine the magic of musical discovery. Since we learned that time-stretching can render even Justin Bie... Read more »| 29 Apr 2011 -
Live MusicLive Music Highlights – May 2011
With his unflappable baritone and rambling lyrical flow, Bill Callahan (formerly Smog) is an enigmatic balladeer very much in the Lee Hazlewood/Leonard Cohen... Read more »| 29 Apr 2011 -
Live MusicThe Metal Column – May 2011
The transition from spring to summer has got to be the worst time of year for metalheads. Autumn is when life begins its annual descent into decay, cruelly f... Read more »| 29 Apr 2011 -
Reviews
Steve Adey – These Resurrections EP
With only the scarcest of offerings since his 2006 debut album All Things Real, 2011 looks to be a positively prolific year for Edinburgh-based Steve Adey, a... Read more »| 29 Apr 2011 -
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Across Tundras – Sage
It's no secret that Neurot is a label that loves to reward hard work and Across Tundras definitely meet the specs, now releasing their fifth studio album (no... Read more »| 28 Apr 2011
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Live Music
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter @ Captain's Rest, 19 April
While it may have taken 2007’s Like, Love, Lust and the Open Halls of the Soul (not to mention the Southern Lord signing which went hand in hand with t... Read more »| 28 Apr 2011 -
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Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres
An avant-jazz concept album performed live, Coin Coin is an uncompromising listen. The intense noodling of opener Rise immediately intimidates, while the sub... Read more »| 28 Apr 2011 -
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Twin Atlantic – Free
Without a doubt, Twin Atlantic’s impact on your life is going to be decided largely on what you think of Sam McTrusty’s occasionally (or often, a... Read more »| 28 Apr 2011 -
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Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Must Be Blind/Life In Muscle
Picking up where 2005’s Superwolf album and I Gave You EP left off, Must Be Blind sees laconic folk champion Will Oldham reunited with erstwhile bandma... Read more »| 28 Apr 2011 -
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The Dodos – No Color
Now that the sun’s out, a quick blast of psychedelic pop all the way from San Francisco is just what the doctor ordered. And lo and behold, here come t... Read more »| 27 Apr 2011 -
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Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact
The fifth LP from New York electro/worldbeat outfit Gang Gang Dance sees their sound straying ever-closer into all-out prog excess – no bad thing, in c... Read more »| 27 Apr 2011 -
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Viva Stereo – Endure the Dark to See the Stars
Over ten years, three albums and numerous EPs, Viva Stereo have stacked hard electronics on a foundation of indie-rock, with previous releases kindred with C... Read more »| 27 Apr 2011 -
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Ulver – Wars of the Roses
When February MMX begins to pick up speed, you’re left wondering: have Norway’s former Black Metal exponents Ulver gone pop? It wouldn’t be... Read more »| 27 Apr 2011 -
Interviews
MURDERBOT INVASION!
With his album Women’s Studies about to drop on Planet Mu, Chicago DJ legend Chrissy Murderbot is about to unleash his booty-fuelled mashup of juke, bashment and bass on the UK live circuit. We caught him for a quick Q&A! Read more »| 27 Apr 2011