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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ReviewsArdentjohn - On The Wire
The partnership at the heart of Ardentjohn stretches back to a playground scrap between singer Keiron Mason and bassist Al Shields on the Isle of Bute. Reuni... Read more »| 18 Jan 2010 -
ReviewsOcean Colour Scene - Saturday
“Hundred mile high city” croaks Ocean Colour Scene’s Simon Fowler seconds into ninth album Saturday, delivering a message interpretable two... Read more »| 18 Jan 2010 -
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First Aid Kit - The Big Black and the Blue
As befits a duo who first captured hearts with a Fleet Foxes cover (one million Youtube views and counting…), and whose live shows are dominated by a ... Read more »| 18 Jan 2010 -
ReviewsAstrosoniq - Quadrant
All things considered, stoner rock should be relatively easy to pull off. Black Sabbath riff worship – tick; psychedelic blues fixation –... Read more »| 18 Jan 2010 -
ReviewsD.P. - Bar Tab Blues
As modern hip-hop disappears up its own arse in a self-indulgent fug of Auto-tune, medallions, slick whips and giant egos, it’s refreshing to find some... Read more »| 18 Jan 2010 -
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Motley Crue - Saints Of Los Angeles
Inspired by the band's 2001 autobiography, The Dirt, Motley Crue's ninth studio album, Saints Of Los Angeles - repackaged and re-released here to coincide wi... Read more »| 17 Jan 2010
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Punch And The Apostles - Punch And The Apostles
Debut album from theatrical Glasgow seven-piece. Read more »| 16 Jan 2010 -
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Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
Hendrik Weber aka Pantha du Prince has always operated at the accessible, super-melodic end of the techno spectrum and Black Noise is being touted by many as... Read more »| 15 Jan 2010 -
Live Music
An Evening with Henry Rollins @ O2 Academy, 13 Jan
“I’m a maniac. And the older I get, the more pissed off I am,” growls Henry Rollins. With his fevered tones, and his bulky frame poised lik... Read more »| 15 Jan 2010 -
Live Music
Nacional @ King Tut's, 8 Jan
With red noses onstage and a crowd clad in cosy winter clothes, The Social Services (***) have their work cut out restoring circulation to a shivering Tut's ... Read more »| 14 Jan 2010 -
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Oh No Ono - Eggs
Already named fifth best Danish album of the decade at home, Eggs arrives in the UK at the best possible juncture. With the musicianistas and opinio-bloggers... Read more »| 13 Jan 2010 -
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The Mary Onettes - Islands
Few nations have embraced the indie-pop aesthetic like the Swedes. From the outlandish kitsch of Jens Lekman, to the chart-bothering efforts of Peter, Bjorn ... Read more »| 13 Jan 2010 -
ReviewsCitay - Dream Get Together
Though they're often lumped in with the freak-folk movement, there is something decidedly proggier about San Francisco’s Citay than, say, Devendra Banh... Read more »| 11 Jan 2010 -
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Basia Bulat - Heart of My Own
Everybody knows the one about the ‘difficult second album’: promising musician shoots his/her bolt on a debut, spends a year piecing together fra... Read more »| 11 Jan 2010 -
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Ella Montclare - I Surrender
While the seemingly endless horde of eccentric and energetic young female performers (Flo, Marina, Little Boots, Ellie Goulding…) rush the charts, Ell... Read more »| 11 Jan 2010