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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ReviewsKeyboard Choir - Mizen Head to Gascanane Sound
Debut albums are tricky. Sometimes the music is ripe. But more often than not it’s still ripening, and debuts can serve as a testing ground for ideas t... Read more »| 23 Sep 2008 -
ReviewsPumajaw - Curiosity Box
A triumphant example of music's ability to move the listener Read more »| 22 Sep 2008 -
Live MusicAidan John Moffat @ SWG3, 27 Sep
An evening of Chemikal melodies Read more »| 22 Sep 2008 -
Live Music
Dartz! @ The GRV, 17 Sep
Dartz! can take their myriad reference points and distill it into two minutes of down-tuned punk funk. We came looking for little more Read more »| 22 Sep 2008 -
ReviewsNew Kids On The Block - The Block
The ‘Kids, all pushing their forties now, present their mature, grown-up side Read more »| 22 Sep 2008 -
Reviews
Weezer - Troublemaker
Classic Read more »| 22 Sep 2008
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Reviews
Kat Flint - Dirty Birds
Kat Flint is a guitar-strumming singer-songwriter with a beautiful voice. Yes, another one. Bur maybe not. To be fair, there are several things at work here ... Read more »| 22 Sep 2008 -
Reviews
Recloose - Perfect Timing
In 1997, Matthew ‘Recloose’ Chicoine was signed to Carl Craig’s Planet E label, by way of a ‘demo on rye sandwich’ handed to th... Read more »| 22 Sep 2008 -
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The Peth - The Golden Mile
Fear and Loathing in Cardiff Read more »| 22 Sep 2008 -
Festivals
Cupar Arts Festival @ Various Venues, 10-26 Oct
Fife's miniature answer to SXSW? Find out at the inaugural Cupar Arts Festival this October. Read more »| 19 Sep 2008 -
Interviews
The Aliens: We Believe
The Aliens' John Maclean discusses abductions, superheroes and evil empires with Paul Mitchell Read more »| 19 Sep 2008 -
Live Music
Bon Iver @ The Queen's Hall, 17 Sep
If the wild acclamation of For Emma, Forever Ago has left you a little nonplussed, an explanation for the high praise perhaps lies in Bon Iver's live perform... Read more »| 19 Sep 2008 -
Live Music
Shearwater @ Captain's Rest, 15 Sep
Shearwater's most recent two albums, Palo Santo and Rook, both benefit from a production aesthetic that values each quiet second equally with each loud secon... Read more »| 19 Sep 2008 -
Live Music
PPP @ The Voodoo Rooms, 15 Sep
A trilogy of contrasting acts make a Monday night excursion worthwhile Read more »| 19 Sep 2008 -
Interviews
No musical Recloose
Former Detroit resident and now adopted New Zealander Matt Chicoine tells Colin Chapman why it's all about the soul and funk for him Read more »| 19 Sep 2008