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 Dirty Dozen - April 2010: WHY? Takeover
Armed with the April singles and a ghetto blaster from 1991, Dave Kerr finds WHY? frontman Yoni Wolf "pimpin" in a Glasgow hotel room decked out like Pat Butcher's knocking shop. "I don’t like much stuff," Mr Wolf cautions, "but it’s going to take something pretty serious to make me give a song the thumbs down..." Read more »| 01 Apr 2010 -
Live MusicBook Now: Primavera Sound
Face it: the weather can make or break a festival. You and your friends can spend almost £200 each on a ticket, plus more on camping gear, petrol and b... Read more »| 01 Apr 2010 -
ReviewsJaguar Love – Hologram Jams
Oozing with brash stabs of dirty synth and riddled with some truly ear-piercing, almost glam rock vocal screeches, Hologram Jams – the second album fro... Read more »| 01 Apr 2010 -
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Slaraffenland - We're On Your Side
What Sigur Rós are to Iceland, Efterklang have become to Denmark; the critical darlings through whose prism outsider eyes are prone to viewing –... Read more »| 31 Mar 2010 -
Interviews
The Moth and the Mirror: Closer to the Flame
After an age of bubbling under, elusive sextet The Moth and The Mirror feel they're finally ready to make waves Read more »| 31 Mar 2010 -
Interviews
Meursault's All Creatures Will Make Merry: Track-By-Track
Meursault's Neil Pennycook gives us the lowdown on his band's highly anticipated second album, All Creatures Will Make Merry Read more »| 31 Mar 2010
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Sweet Apple - Love and Desperation
Whilst nothing can fully erase the pain of losing a loved one, getting asked to join a band with J. Mascis is probably a pretty good distraction by anyone's ... Read more »| 31 Mar 2010 -
ReviewsMalachai - Ugly Side of Love
This Bristol-based duo would appear, on the face of it, to be suffering from an identity crisis. Formerly Malakai, this first full-length release ventures do... Read more »| 31 Mar 2010 -
Interviews
Efter the Parade
Efterklang's Casper Clausen explains why Denmark's foremost orchestral indie artists have been finding it difficult to limit the scope of their ambition Read more »| 30 Mar 2010 -
Interviews
Broken Bells: Chancing the Night Away
Having kept their collaboration under wraps for two years, The Shins' James Mercer explains why he and über-producer Danger Mouse didn't want Broken Bells to jump the gun Read more »| 30 Mar 2010 -
Interviews
Sparklehorse's Sad & Beautiful World
James Mercer has contributed to another Burton project, written with Mark Linkous – Sparklehorse's equally talented and troubled creative hub who died this March. Here Mercer pays tribute as we offer a potted history of Linkous' most memorable work. Read more »| 30 Mar 2010 -
Interviews
Conquering Animal Sound: The Great Escape
Conquering Animal Sound are a duo with an innovative take on lo-fi folk. Before their attentions turn to a UK tour, they tell us the merits of toy instruments, mixtapes and dressing up as an imprisoned Steve McQueen Read more »| 30 Mar 2010 -
Interviews
Bobo in the Corner: Cypress Hill interviewed
We put Cypress Hill percussionist Eric "Bobo" Correa on the spot for a few hard and fast facts on Latin beats, real vampire fiction and the inspirational power of Black Sabbath... Read more »| 30 Mar 2010 -
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La Folie – Risus Sardonicus
The success enjoyed by Gogol Bordello over the past decade has inspired a sizeable amount of inferior impersonators. The incorporation of “gulag”... Read more »| 30 Mar 2010 -
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Sam Amidon - I See the Sign
If you give any credence to the media pastime of trend-spotting, then you'd probably file Sam Amidon under the latest 'folk revival' along with the likes of ... Read more »| 29 Mar 2010