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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InterviewsTrembling Bells' Alex Neilson: "I’d probably be a professional footballer if it wasn’t for Trout Mask Replica"
With Trembling Bells’ third album on the way, drummer Alex Neilson is all too happy to debate the finer points of folk music Read more »| 08 Apr 2011 -
Reviews
The Great Nostalgic – Hope We Live Like We Promised
Like a poorly preserved Elvis Costello action figure, The Great Nostalgic have a seventies charm that by now is starting to smell a bit off, and they bear th... Read more »| 08 Apr 2011 -
OpinionThe Proposition: Rebecca Frankenstein Black: or The Post-Modern Prometheus
The most ghastly thing about Friday is not the hideous auto-tuning, the stupefying lyrics or the gormless rap, it's the fact that it reminds us what a bunch of slack-jawed imbeciles we actually are Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
Live Music
Record Store Day 2011
With downloads and tax-dodging web-retailers gobbling up sales, the humble record store’s obituary had been penned many times by cultural forecasters a... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
ReviewsThe Donkeys – Born With Stripes
I’m no zoologist, but a Donkey Born with Stripes would imply zebra parentage, making these San Diegans zedonks. If we instead delineate their genus fro... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
Live Music
Kyuss Lives @ O2 ABC, 4 April
‘Legendary’ is an overused epithet in music journalism, but in the case of Californian stoner-rock pioneers Kyuss, it feels entirely warranted. S... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011
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Live MusicEarth @ Stereo, 5 April
In a sense, Sabbath Assembly are a headliner’s worst nightmare. Not only are they technically adept purveyors of a particularly hypnotic strain of 70s-... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
Interviews
Panda Bear: "The guitar is still a real source of power"
Taking subtle cues from Nirvana and fatherhood, Noah ‘Panda Bear’ Lennox unveils his inner Tomboy Read more »| 06 Apr 2011 -
Interviews
Autechre: Flux Capacity
Cutting through the shit to get to the root of Autechre's brilliance Read more »| 06 Apr 2011 -
Reviews
The Dirty Dozen – Phantom Band Takeover
Pulling no punches, Greg Sinclair and Duncan Marquiss of The Phantom Band stick it to the April singles Read more »| 06 Apr 2011 -
Reviews
Sleepingdog – With Our Heads In The Clouds And Our Hearts In The Fields
Sleepingdog is the musical lovechild of True Bypass’ Chantal Acda and Adam Wiltzie of Stars of the Lid fame; as angelic a collaboration as anyone famil... Read more »| 06 Apr 2011 -
InterviewsTrail of Dead vs Rival Schools
As ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead and Rival Schools prepare to share a tour-bus for a co-headlining tour of Europe, Conrad Keely makes his journalistic debut with a get-to-know Q&A for Walter Schreifels Read more »| 06 Apr 2011 -
Reviews
Prefuse 73 – The Only She Chapters
Followers of Guillermo Scott Herren’s work as leftfield electronica conjurer Prefuse 73 will naturally expect the unexpected, but his latest full-lengt... Read more »| 04 Apr 2011 -
Reviews
Ancient Astronauts - Into Bass and Time
Hip hop, in recent years, has brought us grime, crunk, hyphy and footwork. Producers like Missy Elliot, Timbaland, Kanye, Jay-Z, The Neptunes, Wiley and Ti... Read more »| 04 Apr 2011 -
Live Music
Cry Parrot presents: John Maus @ Mono, 29 March
The loop pedal artisan is becoming a busy genre in its own right, but Remember Remember’s Graeme Ronald, performing solo tonight, is comfortably ahead ... Read more »| 04 Apr 2011