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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ReviewsCold Cave - Love Comes Close
If La Roux and her silly quiff and slices of radio-friendly synth-pop hark back to the frivolity of the early eighties, Cold Cave summon up the darker spirit... Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
Live MusicMudhoney at HMV Picture House, 9 Oct
Tonight’s homage to the fuzz pedal begins in earnest as St Deluxe knuckle down to the business of evoking Dinosaur Jr at their eardrum-popping best. Wi... Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
ReviewsNorth Atlantic Oscillation - Callsigns EP
Edinburgh trio's introductory EP whets the appetite for an already recorded debut album Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
Reviews2562 - Unbalance
It’s dubstep, but not as Streatham or Croydon would know it. This second album from the Hague-based 2562 takes the blueprint of monstrous, murky bass, ... Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
Interviews
Miike Snow: Beyond Toxic
Miike Snow's Christian Karlsson has enjoyed great success writing music for pop superstars, but he says it's not as much fun as being in his own band. Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
Live Music
Bat For Lashes / Yeasayer @ HMV Picture House, 20 Oct
After guesting on Bat For Lashes’ new-ish album, Brooklyn band Yeasayer were an obvious choice of support for this tour. Whether the audience knows it ... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009
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ReviewsPumajaw - Featherdown Quilt
The latest offering from the now Fife-based enigmas is a far cry from the neo-folk scene they have been so uncomfortably shoehorned into by baffled listeners... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
Live Music
Crocodiles @ Stereo, 19 Oct
With grizzly bear flags of the California Republic draped proudly over their amps, San Diego’s latest burp of youthful boredom, recently enlarged from ... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
Interviews
Love Pumajaw Hate Racism
Love Music Hate Racism is an initiative dating back to 2002, launched as a counter-response to a perceived rise in levels of racism and the undeniably growin... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
Reviews
Broken Records - Out On The Water EP
After all the column inches dedicated to them, it’s easy to forget that Broken Records are a relatively new band. A single album into their careers, an... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
Live Music
Casiokids @ Electric Circus, 6 Oct
Toddler-like grins hang on the faces of the five Casiokids and the quickening beats of Togens Hule soon turn the venue into a bouncing playground of fun. Thu... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
Reviews
Pelican - What We All Come to Need
What We All Come to Need could be construed as an assuming title. When ascribing the idea of necessity to one’s own project, one risks abject failure, ... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
Reviews
The Hidden Cameras - Origin: Orphan
By all means applaud the ambition, just don’t expect it to have any substance Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
Reviews
Omar Rodriguez-López - Xenophanes
The solo work of Omar Rodriguez-López can vary wildly from sheer noise (see Despair) to records considered as Mars Volta releases in everything but n... Read more »| 20 Oct 2009 -
Reviews
Espers – III
If any genre of music epitomized the late 1960s it was psychedelic folk. The meeting of acoustic guitars and trippy boundary pushing seems rooted in those fe... Read more »| 20 Oct 2009