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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ReviewsHow To Destroy Angels – An Omen EP
In contrast to the sublime industrial pop melodrama of HTDA's first EP, An Omen showcases a much more diverse and dynamic sound from the band, managing to ri... Read more »| 19 Nov 2012 -
ReviewsChrist. – Cathexis Motion Picture Soundtrack
It's extremely unfair that nearly every single mention of Scottish producer Christ. is prefaced with the fact that he is a former member of Boards of Canada.... Read more »| 19 Nov 2012 -
ReviewsCurt Crackarach – Lonely Holiday
The latest alias of lo-fi pioneer and veteran experimental producer Nattymari, the Curt Crackarach project sees Natty collaborating with a brace of vocalists... Read more »| 19 Nov 2012 -
Reviews
Soundgarden – King Animal
Back when heavy metal was hurtling towards new extremities in theatricality and brute force throughout the late 80s, Seattle quartet Soundgarden willing... Read more »| 18 Nov 2012 -
Live Music
Buck 65 / The Levee Strollers @ King Tut's, 11 November
Tonight's support act are a downhome (although Glaswegian) country and western band called The Levee Strollers. Their enthusiastic but wholly incongruous per... Read more »| 14 Nov 2012 -
Live MusicBill Wells & Aidan Moffat / Rick Redbeard @ Cottiers, 7 November
After several years of performing solo with next-to-nowt to line his merch stand, Rick Anthony’s Rick Redbeard guise is picking up pace. Debut album Th... Read more »| 13 Nov 2012
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Live Music
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti @ Stereo, 8 November
Ariel Pink has come a long way from making music in his bedroom. Hailed as a lo-fi pioneer and championed by the likes of Animal Collective, the Beverly Hi... Read more »| 13 Nov 2012 -
Reviews
Dizraeli & The Small Gods – Never Mind
Unlike Scroobius Pip, another artist who made the transition from hip-hop influenced poet to rapper with a record deal, Dizraeli's flow is based on literate,... Read more »| 13 Nov 2012 -
Live Music
Animal Collective @ O2 ABC, 7 November
In the past we’ve witnessed Animal Collective wing it with a man down as well as push brand new material on the back of an already shrink-wrapped fre... Read more »| 12 Nov 2012 -
Interviews
Soundgarden – Past, Present, and Future
On the day their comeback album is released in the UK, Soundgarden's Ben Shepherd gives The Skinny an insider's view of the Seattle legends' story so far, with a few surprise guest questions along the way Read more »| 12 Nov 2012 -
Interviews
John Paul Jones talks touring with Supersilent and the possibility of reconvening Them Crooked Vultures
The subject of Led Zeppelin's new concert documentary might be impossible to ignore, but this month John Paul Jones bids farewell to the past and looks forward to an impending tour with Norwegian improv group Supersilent... Read more »| 09 Nov 2012 -
Reviews
The Unthanks – Diversions Volume 3: Songs from the Shipyards
Views of the wasted ghost ships at Seaton and the tankers chugging out of Tees dock typified every trip to the coast for those of us living in the sha... Read more »| 09 Nov 2012 -
Opinion
On the Road: The Hazey Janes take Europe with Wilco (Part Four)
As the band rolls into Seville, the end of tour blues start to kick in Read more »| 08 Nov 2012 -
Reviews
Zombie Zombie – Rituels d'Un Nouveau Monde
On Rituels d’Un Nouveau Monde, this French electro/neo-prog duo progress from their previous work – reinterpreting John Carpenter soundtracks &n... Read more »| 07 Nov 2012 -
Reviews
Snow Palms – Intervals
With his work in the London instrumental trio State River Widening from the late '90s to the mid '00s, David Sheppard helped to create a pastoral, folk-infle... Read more »| 06 Nov 2012