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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Live MusicPunch and the Apostles @ King Tut's, 16 Aug
Almost certainly festival music in waiting Read more »| 21 Aug 2008 -
Live Music
Kristin Hersh: Paradoxical Undressing @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13 Aug
With strange tales of hanging out with rats, lounging with lizards, growing up in a hippy commune and wearing elephant shit sandals, Hersh’s monologues are consistently colourful and fluidly poetic Read more »| 21 Aug 2008 -
Reviews
Be A Familiar - Pain In The Heart
On-stage energy can't mask recorded, replayable mediocrity Read more »| 21 Aug 2008 -
Reviews
Super Adventure Club - Chalk Horror!
Super Adventure Club know it's no fun playing serious music if you have to take it seriously Read more »| 20 Aug 2008 -
ReviewsManda Rin - DNA
It's become a backhanded compliment to say a band is "big in Japan," but Bis really were much bigger in the Far East than they ever were in Scotland, despite... Read more »| 20 Aug 2008 -
Interviews
Mercury Rev's Theory Of Evolution
As Finbarr Bermingham caught up with Jeff Mercel, percussionist, keyboardist and general man-about-band, we find out that Mercury Rev, unlike many of their fans, are not a band transfixed with the past and that their future is there to be embraced. Read more »| 20 Aug 2008
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Reviews
Mystery Jets - Half in Love with Elizabeth
Hearing the intro to this track for the first time, the question: 'Dear God, what have I done to deserve this?' rush through the mind. But seriously, it gets... Read more »| 20 Aug 2008 -
Live Music
Bonde do Rolê @ The Lemon Tree, 15 Aug
Carnival time halts for no man Read more »| 20 Aug 2008 -
ReviewsConor Oberst - Souled Out!!!
If this record had a scent, it'd be pine or lemon - while perhaps not the number one aroma for many, a large cross-section of the populace can agree these tw... Read more »| 20 Aug 2008 -
Reviews
Does It Offend You Yeah? - Dawn of the Dead
Every once in a while, life hands you little reminders that those old proverbs we hear so often aren't completely hackneyed. In the case of Dawn of the Dead... Read more »| 20 Aug 2008 -
ReviewsMalente & Dex - Hyperactive
Malente & Dex come together for their debut release in an inspired partnership. With five albums to his name since 2000 Malente has now earned himself th... Read more »| 19 Aug 2008 -
Festivals
Bestival 2008 @ Isle of Wight, 5-7 Sep
This year Isle of Wight's Bestival yields Mermaids. Ideal. Read more »| 19 Aug 2008 -
Interviews
A Serj of Controversy
Since System of a Down went on an ‘extended hiatus’ in August 2006, frontman Serj Tankian went completely solo with last year's Elect the Dead. Shaun Love patched in a transatlantic call ahead of Tankian’s trip to the UK next month to discuss single life, airborne genitalia and the consequences of being an overtly political musician Read more »| 19 Aug 2008 -
Live Music
Noah and the Whale @ Cabaret Voltaire, 15 Aug
The London septet spend much of the show colouring within the lines of their folk-pop debut Read more »| 19 Aug 2008 -
Reviews
Broken Social Scene Presents: Brendan Canning - Something For All of Us
Ally Brown gets into the messy business of combining chat with critique in an effort to dissect Brendan Canning's debut solo LP to find that the BSS co-founder doesn't quite get by with a little help from his friends on this occasion Read more »| 18 Aug 2008