A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
The one-man verbal assault force talks about making an album without modern references and why he likes The Wire .
Idolator (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Our look at the closing lines of the biggest new-music reviews continues with a roundup of reactions to Everything Is Borrowed , the new album from the newly contemplative UK MC Mike Skinner's proejct The Streets: • "The Streets might have a happier, more positive outlook on the world, but it's hard to share Skinner's optimism: Even when you get on the same page as him and realize we're all just bags...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
AJ Allmendinger will not finish the NASCAR season with Red Bull Racing, giving up his seat to Mike Skinner and Scott Speed for the final seven races of the year, the team's general manager, Jay Frye, said Tuesday. Allmendinger, a 26-year-old Los Gatos native,...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Despite finishing a career-best ninth last Sunday at Kansas, AJ Allmendinger is out at Red Bull Racing as Mike Skinner and Scott Speed will replace him in the No.84 Toyota for the remainder of the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Mike Skinner's verbal panache and flair for memorable hooks are still functioning
The Sun (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
MIKE Skinner is so worried about Earth’s impending doom he thinks he's depressed
Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Winston Salem Journal is reporting on Kyle Petty. It say that the Wells Fargo Sponsorship would go with Kyle to another team. The article gets into the Kansas race being his last at Petty Enterprises. At the Talladega race AJ. Allmendinger is out while Mike Skinner will be in the car. Terry Labonte will be in [...]
Rolling Stone (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Artist: The Streets Album: Everything is Borrowed Review: Mike Skinner, A.K.A. the Streets, has made the unlikely genre of British rap seem essential — a neat trick, since his "flow" hardly dazzles like Jay-Z's. But with working-bloke wit and a love of simple hooks, he's made magic on records about stoned clubbing, failed courtships, petty crime and pop stardom. On his fourth set, he addresses loftier...
The Nascar Insiders (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
Another week down, and more dominoes fall. AJ Allmendinger led the rumor mill this week after suggesting he may be out of the #84 Red Bull Toyota as early as next week. Many are expecting his empty seat to be filled by Mike Skinner and Scott Speed for the remainder of the season. In other news, [...]
Material Interest (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
File under good timing, unfortunately: the fourth studio album from the Streets, a.k.a. Mike Skinnera winning mash-up of grime beats and rock guitars. Everything Is Borrowed finds the British rapper impishly optimistic, as on the Lily Allen-assisted title track, the...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Garage pioneer, geezer extraordinaire, chav icon, Mercury prize winner, street poet, Buddhist - Mike Skinner has had many labels in past the decade. Now, with just one more Streets album to go before he rips up the blueprint and starts all over again, Skinner's becoming wiser, more philosophical and a lot less pugnacious, he tells
RegnYouth Archives (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Mike Skinner’s artistic forte has always been his quicksilver, meticulous eye for detail. He has chronicled his life like a roguish, ecstasy-generation Pepys. If 2002 debut Original Pirate Material was the ultimate encapsulation of a life of tower blocks, E-rushes and sudden crushes, its follow-up A Grand Don’t Come For Free conveyed equally beautifully the [...]
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Mike Skinner gets a taste of his own medicine when forced to answer questions comprised solely of Streets lyrics. Do you understand or do you need an interpreter?
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Mike Skinner aka The Streets talks to Bernadette McNulty over a mineral water
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
Filed under: News Spinner.com : Mike Skinner was 'pranging out' about celebrity on his last album, 2006's 'The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living,' and now seems at peace on his latest, 'Everything Is Borrowed.' The artist, better known as the Streets, announced his intention to... Read more
