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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ReviewsRoss Clark - You Brought Evil
A brave, enjoyable and refreshing debut Read more »| 15 Jan 2009 -
Interviews
My Vitriol: Back For Good?
After six years in the wilderness, My Vitriol recently dipped their toe back in the water with a short UK tour at the end of last year. Ryan Drever has a word with a slightly tour-damaged Som Wardner to ask the simple question: Where the hell have they been? Read more »| 14 Jan 2009 -
ReviewsAntony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light
Antony proves he was well worth the wait with album number three. Read more »| 13 Jan 2009 -
ReviewsOmar Rodriguez-López - Old Money
Frantic, eclectic guitar mania accompanied by his instrumental cohorts from Mars Volta Read more »| 12 Jan 2009 -
ReviewsThe Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage
If lead single Throwing Bones doesn’t slap a big smile on your mug, you may want to check your pulse for recent activity. Read more »| 12 Jan 2009 -
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Bricolage - Bricolage
Bricolage are unashamedly in thrall to Scottish indie from the 1980s. There's no denying that the Glasgow-based foursome can pull off a convincing Orange Jui... Read more »| 09 Jan 2009
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ReviewsOkker - Two Axes
Winter is a bad time to be promoting underground music. The sheer quantity of rubbish that crams the shelves of music stores turns even the most discerning c... Read more »| 09 Jan 2009 -
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Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
God only knows where they go from here... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
Interviews
The Bronx: Road Warriors
In a manner somewhat suited to his band's style, The Bronx vocalist Matt Caughthran catches up Ryan Drever with on the road to talk records, movies and mariachi bands. Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
Reviews
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird follows 2007's critical success Armchair Apocrypha with an intricate beauty of an LP that's by turns introspective and inst... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
Interviews
Remember Remember: Commit To Memory
Graeme Ronald, lynchpin of modern classical ensemble Remember Remember, gets into a ‘loop’ with Darren Carle to discuss keeping it real in a computer world. Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
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Dälek - Gutter Tactics
Like an industrial hip-hop soundtrack to your worst (or favourite) Lynchian nightmare, New Jersey duo Dälek prophesise the apocalypse via the medium o... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
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Fight Like Apes - ...And the Mystery of the Golden Medallion
Ireland’s Fight Like Apes splatter their debut album on an unsuspecting record-buying public this month like Day-Glo paint. Singer Maykay makes like Jemina P... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
Interviews
Conflict Diamonds: Big In Denmark
Posing as rock stars, ‘gaying’ it up to Queen and cautionary Rohypnol tales? Darren Carle enters the crazy world of Conflict Diamonds. Read more »| 07 Jan 2009 -
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Nickel Eye – The Time Of The Assassins
A satisfying work of homespun folk-rock Read more »| 07 Jan 2009