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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InterviewsNew Blood: Battles
Their music possesses a sense of the manic, yet contains a powerful logic and forward momentum Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Interviews
New Blood: Engerica
Enough snotty attitude to fill a Kleenex factory, is just one of the things Essex outfit Engerica will be bringing to The Garage when they support Seether th... Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Reviews
Spare Snare - Sort it for afterwards
gone is the gratingly lo-fi production of their earlier releases Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
ReviewsSecret Machines - Lightning Blue Eyes
Like a heavyweight boxer, the Secret Machines have us just where they want us Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Playlists
A Muso's Top 10: DoseOne
Anticon's Adam Kidd Drucker AKA DoseOne dropped 10 of the best on the Skinny's doorstep for the month of April and also gave us the gen on what he's got plan... Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Interviews
Last Great Wilderness - From the Ashes
Stop, listen, what's that sound? Local noise mongers come to tear your house down... Read more »| 16 Apr 2006
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ReviewsThe Knife – Silent Shout
A few years ago, The Knife recorded a song called Heartbeats. It was a spangled slice of electropop, glad-sad and catchy, and a Swedish hit. But now it's 200... Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Playlists
The Easy Gramophone - April
5 songs you can legally download and listen to - free Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Live Music
Liars @ Nice n' Sleazys, 24 Feb
A terrifying hybrid of the debauched anarchy of The Birthday Party and the industrial stealth of Kraut-rock. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Reviews
You Said/Whispering Mice @ Semifinalists
Their musical stylings can't quite match their swanky band name Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Reviews
Feeder - Lost and Found
Less a rock song than the background noise for a slightly edgy car advert. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Live Music
Rodrigo y Gabriela @ Liquid Rooms
Signature riffs from Metallica, the White Stripes and Jazz classic Take 5 are imbued with such a sense of fun Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Reviews
The Storys - 'The Storys'
The sort thing you'd expect to hear on American commercial radio as you head down the Interstate towards a blood red sunset Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Live Music
BMX Bandits @ Teviot Union
Time flies when your spilling your heart out to people you don't know very well. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Live Music
Adriana / Speaker's Corner / Angel Conversations @ Bannermans
A well-rounded evening with an unfortunate lull in the Angel's set Read more »| 16 Apr 2006