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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ReviewsVarious – Late Night Tales: Belle and Sebastian Vol. 2
In a 26-part history, Belle and Sebastian are only the second act to add a volume 2 to their Late Night Tales mix, and as before, they’ve cultivated so... Read more »| 26 Mar 2012 -
Live MusicIn Pictures: The Billy Kelly Songwriting Award Launch @ Oràn Mór, 20 March
The hunt for unsigned talent gets underway at the opening of the 2012 Billy Kelly Songwriting Award at Oràn Mór. Acts can submit their demos to... Read more »| 26 Mar 2012 -
Live Music
Father Murphy @ Nice n Sleazy, 14 March
For all their irreverent chat, Fat Janitor don’t mess around. Pummeling Nice n Sleazy with dense hardcore, the Jannys’ bracingly raw sound is eff... Read more »| 21 Mar 2012 -
Interviews
Heavy Metals: An Interview with Feist
From the Parisian studio where she recorded her previous album The Reminder, and mixed her latest, Metals, Leslie Feist discusses Record Store Day, her relationship with physical releases, and the sound she calls Modern Ancient Read more »| 21 Mar 2012 -
Live MusicKilling Joke @ 02ABC, 12 March
Nothing could stop this gig being a triumph: not support band The Icarus Line's petulant crowd-baiting and latter-day attempts to fuse Primal Scream with emo... Read more »| 21 Mar 2012 -
Reviews
Frankie Rose – Interstellar
Gone are ‘the Outs’ and the playfully fuzzy textures of Frankie Rose’s debut album; little is left to signify her involvement with Vivian ... Read more »| 19 Mar 2012
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Reviews
Martyn – Hello Darkness EP
Much-touted post-dubstep producer Martyn returns with a 12” on Brainfeeder that shows real promise and development. With beautifully textured, melanc... Read more »| 19 Mar 2012 -
Reviews
Sunshine Social – Sunshine Social EP
Sunshine Social were never supposed to be a band. Songwriter Calum Macdonald had been gaining a reputation as a performer around the bars of Glasgow without ... Read more »| 19 Mar 2012 -
Reviews
Liz Green – O, Devotion!
It’s been five years since Liz Green’s debut single, but the belated arrival of album O, Devotion! has only sharpened her talents. Bad Medicine r... Read more »| 19 Mar 2012 -
Live Music
Florence and the Machine @ SECC, 12 March
Florence Welch has come an amazingly long way since emerging into the public eye on a wave of hype back in 2008. High on promise, but short on substance, h... Read more »| 16 Mar 2012 -
ReviewsNapalm Death – Utilitarian
It's tempting to downplay Napalm Death's significance in the world of extreme metal: we're almost at a point where we're dismissing the granddaddies of grind... Read more »| 14 Mar 2012 -
Live Music
The War on Drugs / Weird Dreams @ Stereo, 26 February
London’s Weird Dreams open to a large turnout, and despite the miserable Sunday rain outside, offer a sunny escape to a Californian soft gara... Read more »| 14 Mar 2012 -
Reviews
A Whisper In The Noise – To Forget
A Steve Albini endorsement will get you far in this world, and an M. Night Shyamalan endorsement used to get you far in this world. A Whisper In The Noise ha... Read more »| 14 Mar 2012 -
Reviews
Bobby Vacant & the Worn – Virginia Neon
The world of Virginia Neon is one simultaneously familiar and alien, an American landscape of deserts and bars by turns seedy, lonely and tender. On songs li... Read more »| 14 Mar 2012 -
Reviews
Father Murphy – Anyway Your Children Will Deny It
Shivering breaths, an unbearably tense riff, a forceful death rattle: Father Murphy’s latest album opens with the Italian trio on typically austere for... Read more »| 14 Mar 2012