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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ReviewsDragons - Here Are The Roses
It's a tribute to Joy Division, basically Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
ReviewsCaribou - Andorra
Subtle experimentation with dense washes of sublime sound opening themselves up for exploration Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Reviews
Arthur & Yu - In Camera
A lo-fi folk gem of a record steeped in the sounds of a bygone era Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
ReviewsSmashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
The kind of daring, expansive romanticism that separates the Pumpkins from everyone else Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Festivals
Roskilde, Denmark, 5-8 Jul
With images of a mud-filled Glastonbury fresh in our mind and with weather reports suggesting similar fare at our southern Scandinavian destination, the Skinny was perhaps rightfully fretful... Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Live Music
Summercase @ Madrid
Most two year-olds are notoriously badly-behaved, but not Summercase... Read more »| 09 Aug 2007
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Live Music
Tiger Lillies @ Usher Hall
Deftly combining jaw dropping virtuosity with Bible-black comedy, the Tiger Lillies are truly an unmissable live act Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
ReviewsChrome Hoof - Pre-Emptive False Rapture
Thundering riffs are forced blunt-ways into disco grooves Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Playlists
A Muso's Top 10: Minus the Bear
The Skinny finds Dave Knudson in particularly laid-back form as he dishes the news from camp MTB and tosses us a few curveballs from their record collection… Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Live Music
Live Music Roundup - August
Dinosaur Jr hit up Edinburgh once again in their original formation on 27 Aug Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Playlists
The Easy Gramophone ft Vampire Weekend
5 free songs you can legally download, listen to and love Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Interviews
Architecture In Helsinki - seriously happy
For some reason, if you're kind of positive in your themes or the way you present yourself people just call it childish Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Reviews
Asobi Seksu - Citrus
It's outlandish, euphoric and perhaps strangest of all, quite catchy. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Interviews
Interview - Maps
Not so much shoe-gazing as star-gazing. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Reviews
Architecture in Helsinki - Places Like These
More from these New Wave revivalists who still use Talking Heads as the primary blueprint Read more »| 09 Aug 2007