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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Reviews
Less Than Jake - P.S. Shock The World
The chorus protrudes from the middle of the track like some hideous flesh wound. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Kiddo - 135 Days EP
Kiddo create their own sound, built up from the dilettantish rhythms that seep into the lead guitar lines. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - War Of The Worlds
sounds good for a while, then it just dies on itself. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Live Music
The Ordinary Boys - How To Get Everything You Ever Wanted In Ten Easy Steps (B-Unique)
a tragically limp record determined to ride the crest of an opportunist wave Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Susurrus Station - 1,2 Unbuckle the Blue
Walks a tightrope between the obliquely poetic and the plain pretentious Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Yourcodenameis:milo - Print Is Dead Vol. 1
The results are often shocking. The Trapeze Artist is brutal and comes with chopped, heavy riffing and manic wails, yet features The Automatic. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006
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Reviews
Puerto Muerto - Songs Of Muerto County Relived
Hauntingly beautiful at times, melancholic at others, Puerto Muerto is soporose and quixotic all at once. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Live Music
The Datsuns @ Cabaret Voltaire
Rock n roll was never meant to be this boring. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Live Music
Chicks on Speed / The Wraiths @ The Caves
paint and strobe were splashed everywhere, and nudity erupted on a wide scale
""they are the channelled spirits of two fourteenth century monks"" Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Live Music
Calexico & Beirut @ ABC
Calexico may be tonight's headliners, but in the months to come it'll be the sound of Beirut that fiddles its way into your heart. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Live Music
The Twilight Singers @ Oran Mor, 12 Dec
Bar-room keyboards tinkle in the softer moments, the band are by turns reflective and aggressive Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Interviews
New Blood: Lights. Action!
We'll always be the outsiders, but we like that. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Reviews
Twilight Singers - A Stitch in Time EP
testimony to the fact that Twilight Singers specialise in providing drowsy narcoleptic acid jazz and straight up euphoric adrenaline shots to the heart Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Playlists
The Easy Gramophone ft Swan Lake
5 songs you can legally download and listen to - free Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Interviews
Tenacious D - Road Warriors
Authors of the greatest song in the world? Practitioners of the cock pushup? The D odyssey continues with their recently released debut film and accompanying... Read more »| 12 Dec 2006