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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ReviewsThe Wedding Present – Valentina
They’re a long way off Fall-figures, but for their eighth studio album, The Weddoes have undergone another line-up change: two more personnel subbed ou... Read more »| 06 Mar 2012 -
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Venetian Snares – Fool The Detector
Mutant drum and bass-meets breakcore? Check. Totally insane lyrics about sub-aquatic telepathy? Check. Chest-punchingly deep bass end, and cinematic ambient ... Read more »| 05 Mar 2012 -
Live MusicArika 12, Episode 2 @ Tramway, 24–26 Feb
After a weekend of intellectual argument about the intrinsic horror of the universe – it's hostile, it's too big, and the individual self is either a d... Read more »| 05 Mar 2012 -
InterviewsMeshuggah: "We've always been trying to groove"
Sweden's premier tech-metal titans resurface with Koloss this month, guitarist Mårten Hagström explains why Meshuggah's uncompromising attitude has been vital to their success Read more »| 02 Mar 2012 -
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The Dirty Dozen – March 2012
Jenny Reeve of Strike the Colours and Sparrow and the Workshop's Jill O'Sullivan unite to assess the month's singles Read more »| 02 Mar 2012 -
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The Billy Kelly Songwriting Award is open for submissions
Before its launch this month, the minds behind The Billy Kelly Songwriting Award explain what distinguishes the initiative from your average battle of the bands Read more »| 02 Mar 2012
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Live MusicThe Metal Column – March 2012
Mainstream music has taken a couple of major blows in the past month. Whitney Houston – our favourite guilty pleasure – has become the latest vic... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
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Herzog – Cartoon Violence
The second LP from Cleveland, Ohio’s Herzog is a significant step forward from their 2010 debut Search; a record which sounded, by turns, like a band u... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
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Kelvox1 – Grazed Red
Depending on how you look at it, Kelvox1 either occupy a genre-less zone of glitches and groans; or, paralactically, they’re saturated with genres, wit... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
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The Shins – Port of Morrow
Having shed all but one of their original line-up, The Shins' long-awaited follow up to 2007’s Wincing the Night Away is rather more of a musical man... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
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Grimes: "There’s no time to be repetitive”
Canadian bedroom-pop prodigy Grimes reveals the lengths she’s willing to go to realise her vision Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
Interviews
Speech Debelle Quizzes Talib Kweli
She's a Mercury winning London MC with an inquisitive mind, he's a critically respected Brooklyn rapper with heavy opinions to offload. We put the two together... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
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The Magnetic Fields: The Strange Powers of Stephin Merritt
Reluctant in interview but with a work ethic to make James Brown proud, The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt explains why he enjoys a good deadline Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
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Hooded Fang – Tosta Mista
To say Hooded Fang are retro is akin to saying Lemmy likes the odd drink. The Canadian outfit are quick to acknowledge their debt to the 60s and the explosio... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
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Tall Firs – Out Of It And Into it
Indie aristocracy all seem to agree that Tall Firs are a bit special. Having spent the last decade sharing stages with and impressing the likes of Shellac, S... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012