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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FestivalsCeltic Connections: Ani DiFranco @ O2 ABC, 20 Jan
Folk revivalist Jim Moray proves a wonderfully apt choice for kicking off this evening, his mostly traditional compositions tending towards the darker side o... Read more »| 24 Jan 2011 -
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Celtic Connections: Alasdair Roberts and Muntu Valdo @ Tron Theatre, 19 Jan
Pairing Cameroonian sawa-blues with traditional Scottish folk, Celtic Connections again takes roots music and unearths its global interlinks. Muntu Valdo&rsq... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
FestivalsCeltic Connections: The Walkmen @ Òran Mór, 19 Jan
Even if you are only lucky enough to catch five minutes of Laki Mera’s set, it’s still plenty of time to know that you’re watching somethin... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
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Celtic Connections: Giant Sand @ ABC2, 15 Jan
For a band formed in 1985, Howe Gelb’s Giant Sand manage to sound fresher and more unique tonight than most of the acts who have come and gone like the... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
Reviews
Emily Jane White – Ode To Sentience
Releasing her third album in as many years, Californian Emily Jane White’s prolific nature is matched only by her strict adherence to the purist folk c... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
ReviewsChapel Club – Palace
On their debut, London-based five-piece Chapel Club offer up a remarkably accomplished take on the kind of stadium rock-meets-Joy Division sound familiar to ... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011
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Reviews
The Tenebrous Liar – Run Run Run
Anyone who remembers with faint disappointment when the White Stripes and their ilk were the ‘saviours of rock and roll’ would do well to have a ... Read more »| 20 Jan 2011 -
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James Blake – James Blake
Having wowed audiences last year with a trio of acclaimed EPs, here Londoner James Blake expands his imaginative soul hybrid over eleven full tracks, and lau... Read more »| 20 Jan 2011 -
ReviewsThe Dirtbombs – Party Store
Whereas Party Store’s predecessor set out to bring new life to the soul classics of the 70s, the Dirtbombs’ latest favours the seminal Detroit te... Read more »| 20 Jan 2011 -
ReviewsThe Chemistry Set – This Day Will Never Happen Again
The Chemistry Set were a band who were all-too-often overlooked, emerging from the late 80s British neo-psychedelia scene with a sound that owed as much to E... Read more »| 19 Jan 2011 -
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Deerhoof – Vs Evil
Deerhoof are a band of well-established contradictions, not just in terms of their skillful ability to combine leftfield musical experimentation with a solid... Read more »| 19 Jan 2011 -
Interviews
The Go! Team: Rolling Blackouts are Go!
Cult live favourite The Go! Team's Ian Parton talks to us about the band's sample-heavy third LP, Rolling Blackouts Read more »| 17 Jan 2011 -
Interviews
Rival Schools: Shot After Shot
With lyrics spanning Psychic Kids, sexy Italian actresses, and that primal urge for a can of juice, Walter Schreifels offers a taste of Rival Schools' long-awaited second album Read more »| 17 Jan 2011 -
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Rival Schools: Good Things
Nearly a decade after their debut album broke the mould, New York's Rival Schools return for round two in 2011. Frontman Walter Schreifels and guitarist Ian Love explain a welcome resurrection Read more »| 13 Jan 2011 -
Reviews
Sore Eros – Know Touching
There’s something altogether endearing about Know Touching; a lo-fi, pretty sort of mess by Connecticut’s Sore Eros. Opener Shake The Walls brist... Read more »| 12 Jan 2011