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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Playlists
The Easy Gramophone - March
5 free songs you can legally download, listen to and love
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ReviewsMeshuggah - ObZen
That trademark throaty bass sound lurks behind the mayhem with brutal intent. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Festivals
F**k it, let's all go to Coachella
All your T in the Parks and Glastonburys will merge into one as you get older, but a festival like Coachella will likely be a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Reviews
Tapes n Tapes - Hang Them All
A surging, limb-flinging offering from a band to be welcomed home like a long lost cousin. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
ReviewsNick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Cave hasn't lost his charm. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
ReviewsJohnny Foreigner - Our Bipolar Friends
Catch "JoFo" before they either exhaust themselves or explode into flames Read more »| 06 Mar 2008
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Live Music
Dillinger Escape Plan @ Cathouse, 15 Feb
Unrelenting, ferocious entertainment. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
ReviewsBlack Francis - Svn Fngrs
Stands proundly in the Black Francis oeuvre. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Interviews
A Silver Mt. Zion: Hi, How Are You, Efrim Menuck?
Paul Mitchell's clearly freestyling as he gives the Montreal based lynchpin of A Silver Mt. Zion and Godspeed You! Black Emperor a bell to ask... Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
ReviewsFrightened Rabbit - Head Rolls Off
A bold new year's resolution made hymnal Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Live Music
Holy Fuck @ Stereo
A musical hormone imbalance that will turn you into a sweaty convulsing mess whether you like it or not Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Reviews
The Dirty Dozen - March
From soft-rock stadium rockers to pan-continental beat plunderers, Nick Mitchell rakes around The Skinny's mail bag for that golden single Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Reviews
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Dig, Lazarus, Dig!! is too polished and preened to stagger down Cave's own self-made path of righteousness Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Live Music
Metal Up Your Ass - March, 2008
Dust down your musket, pull on those combats and wage hostilities at the finest in heavy gigs in Scotland this month. Easy on the slam dancing though, eh Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Reviews
The Long Blondes - Century
If you can't stand reinvention in the name of chart-bound populism then this new century's definitely not for you... Read more »| 06 Mar 2008