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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ReviewsAcoustic Ladyland - Living With A Tiger
Persistently overshadowed by their Mercury-nominated sister band Polar Bear (indeed, you may only recognise this band from their drummer's splendid afro), Ac... Read more »| 30 Jun 2009 -
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Diamond Sea - Songss
Initially, Diamond Sea seem so preoccupied with constructing a minimalist soundscape that it's difficult not to feel left out from their self-indulgent micro... Read more »| 30 Jun 2009 -
Live MusicFuture Cinema Presents: All Tomorrow's Parties Premiere
Donkeys, dancing girls and ice cream, an ATP film premiere and a Mogwai show all on one ticket? Ain't no mountain high enough, says the Picture House. Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
ReviewsJackie-O Motherfucker - Ballad of the Revolution
During their creative lifespan, some bands morph from challenging radicals intent on beating their listeners into stunned submission, into fully-fledged pop ... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
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Peter Parker - Swallow The Rockets
Pastel-approved Glasgow quartet Peter Parker, led by Miss The Occupier frontwoman Roz Davies and veteran riot grrl Jane McKeown, look promising on paper, and... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
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Tinariwen - Imidiwan: Companions
Tinariwen wandered the deserts of North West Africa for almost twenty years before Westerners detected their Tishoumaren mix of electric blues and traditiona... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009
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ReviewsThat Fucking Tank - Tanknology
Let's not beat about the bush: track three on Tanknology, Mr Blood, is surely the best thing put to tape by this Leeds two-piece. It's a throbbing expulsion ... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
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The Minus 5 - Killingsworth
The Minus 5 remain relatively obscure, which is astonishing when you consider that past line-ups have included members of Sonic Youth and Wilco, as well as E... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
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Cast Spells - Bright Works and Baton
Better known as Maps & Atlases’ chief guitar-noodler, David Davison’s Cast Spells project is the sonic antithesis to his math-based day job. ... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
Live Music
Live Music Roundup - July, 2009
St. Vincent boasts some of the most impressive and unique guitar skills this side of a Battles gig Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
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Telegraphs - We Were Ghosts
It would be too easy to dismiss We Were Ghosts as an emo record released by a band full of pretty people who fool no one with the heavy eye make-up. There's ... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
Interviews
Life on Mars
Having already danced with the supernatural on their last album, 2009 finds The Mars Volta dogged by another old ghost. But Omar Rodriguez-Lopez tells Dave Kerr that he won’t be press ganged into reforming At the Drive-In. Read more »| 26 Jun 2009 -
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Silversun Pickups: Gonna Make You Swoon
Although still paying dues on these shores, LA’s Silversun Pickups are becoming a big name in their home country. Nikki Monninger tells Darren Carle they're all the happier for it. Read more »| 26 Jun 2009 -
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Apostle of Hustle - Eats Darkness
Hailing from the Arts & Crafts stable, Apostle of Hustle are a suitably patchwork ensemble of artists, most notably Andrew Whiteman of Broken Social Scen... Read more »| 26 Jun 2009 -
ReviewsSpinnerette - Spinnerette LP
After a marriage, a child and a whole mess of label problems, Brody Dalle's new outfit has finally landed. Featuring fellow ex-Distiller Tony Bevilacqua, Ala... Read more »| 26 Jun 2009