People keep trying to make Mike Skinner look back. “The other day I was in Germany doing an interview and they asked me to watch a load of my old music videos and sort of react to them,” he ...

A one-man English rap crew known as The Streets, Mike Skinner adopted a rowdy, intoxicated persona on his 2002 debut, Original Pirate Material. That work and its two follow-ups made Skinner a star ...

The Streets' A Grand Don't Come for Free, Skinner's second album, has cemented his place straddling the urban hip-hop scene on one side and idiosyncratic English singer-songwriters on the other. He ...