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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ReviewsBeastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part 2
This material has been in existence for pushing on two years now and was originally to be released as Part 1, which will now be released at some unknown late... Read more »| 19 Apr 2011 -
ReviewsMonoganon – Songs to Swim To
While the songs on Monoganon’s debut 12" may have been around in some format for a while now, to write this LP off as a redundant expansion would be a ... Read more »| 19 Apr 2011 -
Reviews
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – Everything’s Getting Older
Considering the frequency that ageing pops up as a lyrical theme on Everything’s Getting Older, it’s appropriate that it took former Arab Strap m... Read more »| 18 Apr 2011 -
InterviewsJames Blake: "The nature of dubstep is one of progression"
2011's great white hype James Blake on keeping his family life private, and why his debut LP was definitely not dubstep Read more »| 13 Apr 2011 -
InterviewsGlasvegas: Out of Exile
Returning from the wilderness with album number two this month, Glasvegas frontman James Allan reveals the reasons for the band's retreat Read more »| 13 Apr 2011 -
Reviews
Asobi Seksu – Fluorescence
It may seem a trite observation applicable to any band, but Asobi Seksu are at their best when they sound like themselves. Often, the Seksu listening experie... Read more »| 12 Apr 2011
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Interviews
Kode9 & The Spaceape: Under the Black Sun
Five years on from their landmark debut, Kode 9 and The Spaceape return to reinvent bass music once more with the epic follow-up, Black Sun. Welcome to their world... Read more »| 11 Apr 2011 -
Reviews
Nick Hudson and the Academy of Sun – My Antique Son
Nick Hudson’s audial explorations over the past few years have garnered him an impressive collection of admirers, from Meredith Monk to Current 93&rsqu... Read more »| 11 Apr 2011 -
Interviews
Adam Goldberg, Dilettante?
dil·et·tante?/?dili?tänt/ –noun 1. a person who studies an art or subject merely for amusement; dabbler. 2. a lover of an art or science. 3. Adam Goldberg? Read more »| 08 Apr 2011 -
InterviewsTrembling Bells' Alex Neilson: "I’d probably be a professional footballer if it wasn’t for Trout Mask Replica"
With Trembling Bells’ third album on the way, drummer Alex Neilson is all too happy to debate the finer points of folk music Read more »| 08 Apr 2011 -
Reviews
The Great Nostalgic – Hope We Live Like We Promised
Like a poorly preserved Elvis Costello action figure, The Great Nostalgic have a seventies charm that by now is starting to smell a bit off, and they bear th... Read more »| 08 Apr 2011 -
Opinion
The Proposition: Rebecca Frankenstein Black: or The Post-Modern Prometheus
The most ghastly thing about Friday is not the hideous auto-tuning, the stupefying lyrics or the gormless rap, it's the fact that it reminds us what a bunch of slack-jawed imbeciles we actually are Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
Live Music
Record Store Day 2011
With downloads and tax-dodging web-retailers gobbling up sales, the humble record store’s obituary had been penned many times by cultural forecasters a... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
Reviews
The Donkeys – Born With Stripes
I’m no zoologist, but a Donkey Born with Stripes would imply zebra parentage, making these San Diegans zedonks. If we instead delineate their genus fro... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
Live Music
Kyuss Lives @ O2 ABC, 4 April
‘Legendary’ is an overused epithet in music journalism, but in the case of Californian stoner-rock pioneers Kyuss, it feels entirely warranted. S... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011