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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ReviewsKin - Dot Dot Dot EP
Manchester-baed Kin has one of the strangest and most compelling voices you’re ever likely to hear. It swells and builds like a more disturbing Karen O... Read more »| 23 Nov 2009 -
Opinion
2010: Year of the Rabbit?
As they prepare to unleash album number three, Finbarr Bermingham speaks to Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison to find out what 2010 holds in store. Read more »| 23 Nov 2009 -
ReviewsEagleowl - Sleep the Winter
A song’s beauty can reside in the slightest of touches, the line separating a graceful composition from a shiver-inducing one sometimes as ephemeral as... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
Live MusicMariachi El Bronx @ Òran Mór, 18 Nov
It's hard to know what to expect from a Mariachi band's support act, but Finnish duo Jakko and Jay transcend any such pondering with an intensely eccentric s... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
Reviews
The Clientele - Bonfires On The Heath
When US tastemakers Pitchfork unveiled their list of the decade’s greatest albums, UK readers would have been excused for quizzically raising e... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
Reviews
Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind
Animal Collective are outstandingly prolific. So reason suggests that after ten years of activity, they have to put out the inevitable clunker, right? Wrong.... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009
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Live Music
The Flaming Lips @ O2 Academy, 15 Nov
Perhaps even euphoria suffers from diminishing returns. That the Flaming Lips trade in such a sought-after commodity so successfully is certainly not... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
Reviews
Amy Millan - Masters of the Burial
An integral component in the success of Canadian indie heroes Stars and Broken Social Scene, Amy Millan’s mellifluous tones are somewhat exposed on thi... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
Reviews
Maxwell Panther - Do You Feel Different Yet?
What’s lower than lo-fi? No-fi still sounds daft. Belo-lo-fi? Whatever - when the genre-baptists decide upon a suitable candidate, Maxwell Panther can ... Read more »| 19 Nov 2009 -
Live Music
Alice in Chains @ Barrowlands, 12 Nov
It’s fitting that Alice in Chains’ first European tour with new material in 16 years should begin within the dusty climes of the Barrowlands. Hav... Read more »| 19 Nov 2009 -
Live Music
Tegan and Sara @ HMV Picture House, 15 Nov
Given the unbelievable difficulty I had in persuading someone to come see Tegan and Sara with me, I began to fear that I was missing something. However, I wa... Read more »| 19 Nov 2009 -
Reviews
Shield Your Eyes - Shield Em
There is something to be said for bands who put significant effort into making music that doesn’t follow the generic 4/4 verse-chorus-verse structure o... Read more »| 19 Nov 2009 -
ReviewsCosmo Jarvis - HUMASYOUHITCH/SONOFABITCH
Everyone loves to hate a gifted progeny, those savants who are way too successful, way too young. This charge could well be levied at 20 year old multi-instr... Read more »| 18 Nov 2009 -
ReviewsBEAK> - BEAK>
Passive readers of certain mainstream music publications may have noticed an increasingly recurring namedrop recently: 1970s krautrock daddies Neu! are cool ... Read more »| 18 Nov 2009 -
Live Music
Schwervon! @ Henry's Cellar Bar, 5 Dec
Nan Turner and Matt Roth began recording together as Schwervon! soon after they "met and fell in love amidst the fertile gutters of NYC". Their Low Blow alb... Read more »| 18 Nov 2009