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 Black Box Revelation - Live at the AB EP
Lands a little too close to derivative rockers Jet in its sound, but in that line of thinking these Belgians could have a hit on their hands Read more »| 09 Sep 2008 -
Live MusicSerj Tankian @ ABC, 1 Sep
"Who likes the Beatles?", asks an upbeat Serj Tankian halfway through tonight's set. The sweaty masses packed into the ABC roar with approval as Tankian and ... Read more »| 09 Sep 2008 -
Reviews
NiYi - I Love You All / Poached Eggs
St Martin’s drop-out in arts-meets-pop collision Read more »| 09 Sep 2008 -
Interviews
Under the Influence: Mogwai
Mogwai's Barry Burns walks us through five of the bands who have helped influence and sculpt the Glasgow quintet into the aural beast we fear today. Read more »| 08 Sep 2008 -
Reviews
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Bloc Party have learned how to use a lot of new toys Read more »| 08 Sep 2008 -
Festivals
Hydro Connect 2008 @ Inveraray Castle, 29-31 Aug
The Connect Festival – this year renamed Hydro Connect thanks to a sponsorship hook-up with Scottish Hydro Electric – has got everything going fo... Read more »| 08 Sep 2008
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Interviews
The Pictish Trail - A Powerhouse of Funk
Perfectly representing the organic mix of traditional and electronic instrumentation with quality songwriting and unselfconscious experimentation that characterises the output of the Fence Collective is Secret Soundz Vol.1, the first long-player from The Pictish Trail aka Johnny Lynch Read more »| 08 Sep 2008 -
ReviewsThe Coral - The Singles Collection
When the bass of Dreaming Of You bounces out the speakers, it's easy to remember why everyone got so excited in the first place Read more »| 08 Sep 2008 -
Interviews
Yeasayer in Conversation: Chris Keating on Beck, Barack and the Second Album
Yeasayer have been touring their debut album All Hour Cymbals relentlessly for the past year, so have Brooklyn's finest experimentalists had time to even con... Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
Reviews
Calexico - Carried to Dust
The Arizonan duo are simply poets who make beautiful music, and Carried to Dust is no exception to the rule Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
ReviewsInfadels-A Million Pieces
Sometimes you need to ask yourself: if the London-based band Infadels suddenly ceased to exist, what would happen to the face of rock music as we know it? Ye... Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
Reviews
Bomb The Bass - Future Chaos
Bomb The Bass is back. As if he didn't create enough devastation the first time around in the 80s with genre-defining hit Beat Dis, Tim Simenon returns to de... Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
Interviews
How To Swim Take a Run at The Mill
Ink Miller of How To Swim tells Finbarr Bermingham of his affinity with a certain Cuban dictator as he rounds up the first month of The Mill Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
Reviews
Capitol K - Notes from Life on the Wire with a Wrecking Ball
Notes is an addictive album that grabs the listener with catchy riffs, yet reveals layers and layers of detail over every repeat play Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
Interviews
Bon Iver's Cabin Fever
Paul Neeson sits down with Justin Veron of Bon Iver, and asks him how he feels about the near obsessive focus bestowed upon his startling debut album - recorded in a remote Wisconsin log cabin - and his status as folk music’s new messiah Read more »| 04 Sep 2008