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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ReviewsHeadhunter - Initiate EP
It’s a solid offering adding more weight to the Tempa name and indeed helping to establish a name that’s maybe not the most prolific or talked about producer on the block Read more »| 28 May 2008 -
ReviewsTestcard - Lines
Sounding like a extremely lame child of The Faint, the album takes the late 80s pop blueprint and... well, doesn't really do much with it Read more »| 28 May 2008 -
Live Music
The Aliens @ The Liquid Room, 16 Jun (CANCELLED - 3 Jun)
Quality pop songs in the key of Fife, if you will Read more »| 28 May 2008 -
Reviews
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Will The Real Jim James please stand up? Read more »| 28 May 2008 -
Interviews
Silver Jews vs. The World
Literally sitting on the edge of his seat backstage at Glasgow’s ABC, an animated David Berman rails against current trends in popular music. The reflective coordinator behind the countrified, lo-fi indie rock of the Silver Jews tells Paul Mitchell why we've become too complacent to rage against the machine Read more »| 27 May 2008 -
Reviews
Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
Songs in A&E maintains a natural development in the band's career: quieter, yes, but as thunderously emotive as ever Read more »| 27 May 2008
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Reviews
V/A - Toolroom Knights Mixed by Tom Novy & Wally Lopez
Novy shows a disconcerting love of cheesy vocals though his instrumental version of Ono’s No No No Read more »| 27 May 2008 -
Reviews
Fanattica - Edingrad
Balkan-influenced mania to make even the scurviest of sea dogs heave and haul those oars Read more »| 27 May 2008 -
ReviewsBilge Pump - Rupert the Sky
A disturbing and difficult album Read more »| 27 May 2008 -
InterviewsA Subtle Guide to Hip-Hop
Once dismissed as "a fake ass Marky Mark" in a rap battle against Eminem, Adam "DoseOne" Drucker has taken his vision of what hip-hop represents to dizzy heights with cult favourites cLOUDDEAD and his latest Subtle venture. Ali Maloney finds out his secret, but doesn't mention that he looks like his long lost identical twin Read more »| 26 May 2008 -
Reviews
Steve Von Till - A Grave Is A Grim Horse
A striking and heart-rending late night desert soundtrack Read more »| 26 May 2008 -
Reviews
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Toronto-based Crystal Castles are the kind of band whose persona and music screams ‘WE ARE SO SCENE!’, and the fact that they appeared on the mos... Read more »| 25 May 2008 -
Reviews
Various Artists - My Favourite Things
This compilation from Mule Musiq's ambient and experimental offspring lacks the power of its parent's 12"s Read more »| 24 May 2008 -
Playlists
A Muso's Top 10: Battles
In honour of The Skinny's scran special, Ian Williams of math rock virtuosos Battles serves up a tasty mixtape and a carnivorous dish to devour Read more »| 23 May 2008 -
Reviews
Radiohead - The Best Of
Radiohead's former label try to cash in on the Oxford band's back catalogue, without their permission, but who are they appealing to? Read more »| 23 May 2008