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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InterviewsIn the Studio: Black Sun
Earlier this spring we spent time in the studio with Russell McEwan of local dirge metal overlords Black Sun as they tracked new album Twilight Of The Gods with guest vocalist and author/fighter Eugene S. Robinson of Oxbow. This is how it went down... Read more »| 02 Sep 2010 -
Interviews
Libraries Gave Us Power
Nicky Wire gives some insight into the books (and music) that helped shape Postcards from a Young Man Read more »| 02 Sep 2010 -
InterviewsDivorce vs Comanechi
Chaos will be the order of the day as the leading lights of modern punk get together to tour the land this coming month. We asked Divorce's Andy Brown to get Comanechi's Akiko Matsuura on the phone to hear her prediction for the fight Read more »| 02 Sep 2010 -
Interviews
American Men: Drum's Not Dead (Just a Bit Queasy)
American Men's Paul Carlin takes a break from puking to tell us what living in a cool world feels like Read more »| 02 Sep 2010 -
Reviews
Blonde Redhead – Penny Sparkle
Having instigated an evolution away from their Sonic Youth-aping origins with the release of 2000’s, Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons, Blond Redhead&rs... Read more »| 02 Sep 2010 -
Interviews
Black Mountain: Let Spirits Ride
In 2008 they brought us In The Future. Now in that future, Black Mountain are ready to unleash Wilderness Heart. Matt Camirand finds the time to talk about its creation, his Led Zeppelin fantasies and how hip-hop legends unite the young rockers Read more »| 02 Sep 2010
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Reviews
Dancer Vs Politician - Justin Fairborn
Sun kissed, burnished and saccharine, Dancer Vs Politician want to bring the joyous Sunday mornings of the sixties to your room. Only a few chords permeate J... Read more »| 02 Sep 2010 -
ReviewsBlack Mountain – Wilderness Heart
Unlike the musical trajectory of many of the influences Black Mountain happily wear on their sleeves, Wilderness Heart finds the Canadian troupe temp... Read more »| 02 Sep 2010 -
Live Music
Detour's Wee Jaunt 2
Live music at a new level Read more »| 02 Sep 2010 -
Reviews
Losers – Beautiful Losers
This side project by radio DJ Eddy Temple-Morris along with Tom Bellamy from the Cooper Temple Clause attempts to follow the manifesto of Temple-Morris&rsquo... Read more »| 02 Sep 2010 -
InterviewsChoose Your Reality: Alan Moore Unearthed
The legendary writer, magician and cultural icon discusses his new album Unearthing, reinventing H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos for the twenty-first century, and the counter-cultural collaborations of his magazine Dodgem Logic Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
FestivalsMusic Like a Vitamin
Rod Jones and Emma Pollock speak exclusively to The Skinny about the making of First Edition, their contribution to the forthcoming Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
Reviews
Envy – Recitation
Recitation is an apt title for Japanese hardcore band Envy’s fifth long player, invoking the scene of a dramatic storyteller with an audience in the pa... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
Reviews
Manic Street Preachers – Postcards From A Young Man
This is, according to Nicky Wire, the Manics’ “last chance to attempt to communicate on a mass level” – a peculiar statement, conside... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
Reviews
The Dirty Dozen – September 2010
This month we plonk our old-school ghetto-blaster in front of a napping Steve Mason. It took the sound of the September singles to rouse him from his torpor Read more »| 01 Sep 2010