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 Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know
The new direction that third album No One Can Ever Know maps out for The Twilight Sad shouldn’t be too much of a curveball for avid fans. The trimmed-d... Read more »| 26 Jan 2012 -
ReviewsBoy Friend – Egyptian Wrinkle
Those looking for a short-cut introduction to Boy Friend’s sound could do worse than track down their cover of Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man after Midnig... Read more »| 26 Jan 2012 -
Live Music
The Horrors / TOY @ The Liquid Room, 16 January
From the ashes of Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong, London quintet TOY are more in thrall to the magpie-like sensibilities of their current tour mates than ... Read more »| 25 Jan 2012 -
Reviews
Speech Debelle – Freedom of Speech
Speech won a Mercury for her debut – the intimate, confrontational confessional of Speech Therapy. On Freedom Of Speech she turns her attention outward... Read more »| 25 Jan 2012 -
Reviews
FOE – Bad Dream Hotline
First off, if you're eagerly reading this article in anticipation of new material from the brilliant mathematical prog/jazz/hardcore outfit that graced the H... Read more »| 25 Jan 2012 -
Reviews
RM Hubbert – Thirteen Lost & Found
First & Last was perhaps ungenerously characterised as a ‘low-key introduction’ to RM Hubbert’s solo methods within these pages as we g... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012
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Live MusicClutch @ Bar Bloc, 20 January
Clutch successfully grafts its big sound to the small stage of Bar Bloc. Chaos ensues... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
Live MusicUnited Fruit @ King Tut's, 16 January
After an acoustic warm-up session in the downstairs bar from Jonathan Snee (Flood of Red), Kings Tut's New Years Revolution series continues with a set from ... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
Live Music
A Winged Victory for the Sullen @ Òran Mór, 15 January
“You can keep chatting – Dustin’s just having a meltdown,” explains A Winged Victory for the Sullen’s Adam Wiltzie as their exp... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
Live Music
M83 / Porcelain Raft @ The Arches, 19 January
Like post-Fromageau M83, Porcelain Raft is effectively one man’s nom de plume, but, also like M83, Mauro Remiddi is not performing alone, with live dru... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
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Mull Historical Society – City Awakenings
After two albums under his own name, Colin MacIntyre has readopted his former moniker for the first time in eight years. While the intervening releases only ... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Excepting its first and final tracks (a dated-sounding industrial take on Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song featuring Karen O, and a tough, icy interpretation ... Read more »| 19 Jan 2012 -
Reviews
Machinedrum – SXLND EP
Travis Stewart has made a conspicuous habit of excellence in the last year. In Room(s) and Sepalcure (his project with Praveen Sharma, aka Braille), 2011 had... Read more »| 16 Jan 2012 -
Live Music
Cymbals Eat Guitars / Milagres @ ABC2, 8 January
Conjuring enthusiasm among a disappointingly thin crowd, on a Sunday night in early January, is a test for any band, and New York’s Milagres are too me... Read more »| 13 Jan 2012 -
Playlists
Roots Manuva Music Playlist: Guest Selector
Maverick MC Rodney 'Roots Manuva' Smith lifts the lid on his desert island discs Read more »| 12 Jan 2012