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 - January 2010
From George Formby to Mariachi horns, this month's Dozen is as weird as that time Steve Coogan dated Courtney Love. Finbarr Bermingham casts a scrutinous eyeball over January's singles. Read more »| 01 Jan 2010 -
InterviewsDark Side of the Falco
Two years after dropping their debut album into the musical ring, Future of the Left returned for round two last year with the brilliant Travels With Myself and Another. Andrew Falkous came out fighting (eventually) to take on writer’s block, success haters and pin-dick journalists, The Skinny steps up to referee before they hit King Tut's this month. Read more »| 01 Jan 2010 -
ReviewsThao with The Get Down Stay Down - Know Better, Learn Faster
US singer-songwriter Thao Nguyen's second album in collaboration with The Get Down Stay Down is a singular creature: a break-up record which somehow evokes t... Read more »| 01 Jan 2010 -
Live Music
The Metal Column – January 2010
The Southern State of Georgia has become an unlikely metal mainstay of sorts over the last decade in a grassroots rebranding feat that draws attention away f... Read more »| 01 Jan 2010 -
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HiM - ?
They may have started out under the dub umbrella, but HiM, the portal through which California-based Doug Scharin pushes his sonic envelope, are now a very d... Read more »| 01 Jan 2010 -
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A Roadmap For New Bands In 2010
Greg Kane is a musician (one half of pop-soul duo Hue and Cry), and an expert on digital content production. As a board member of the newly established Scottish Music Industry Association, here he offers guidelines to musicians on how to maximise their chances of success. Read more »| 01 Jan 2010
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Interviews
State of Play: An Economist's Overview of the Music Industry
Will Page is an influential music industry economist. As head of economics for the UK's PRS for Music collection agency, he's principally concerned with representing and researching on behalf of UK artists. At the start of a new decade, he gives his take on the forces at play. Read more »| 01 Jan 2010 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights - January, 2010
There's a pretty good case to be made for Henry Rollins being the hardest-working man in the music industry. Whether you're talking about his brilliant radio... Read more »| 29 Dec 2009 -
ReviewsOwen Pallett - Heartland
Restraint has always been a key factor for the artist formerly known as Final Fantasy. Owen Pallett’s delicate chamber-pop nuggets could easily be expa... Read more »| 28 Dec 2009 -
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Eels - End Times
E marks his divorce with another unflinchingly honest album. Read more »| 28 Dec 2009 -
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Various - Avalanche Records Alternative Christmas
Compilations like Avalanche Records Alternative Christmas are vitally important. Their necessity will be emphasised repeatedly over the next few days: they w... Read more »| 22 Dec 2009 -
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Parenthetical Girls - The Scottish Play
Strictly limited availability (500 copies) in a silk-screened (???) sleeve illustrated by Glasgow's David Shrigley, it would come as no surprise if this also... Read more »| 22 Dec 2009 -
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Adam Green - Minor Love
While not every musician mellows with age – Nick Cave will be a horny corpse long before he’s labelled ‘mature’ – advancing yea... Read more »| 21 Dec 2009 -
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Vampire Weekend - Contra
Vampire Weekend were easily one of the surprise success stories of 2008. Four white men trapped in black men trapped in white men’s bodies, playing mus... Read more »| 18 Dec 2009 -
Live MusicBuy Tickets Now: Midlake @ ABC, 15 Feb
Texans premiere third album, hoping to provide some post-seasonal cheer Read more »| 18 Dec 2009