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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FestivalsSXSW Music Diary: The Austin Invasion, Rhymesayers 20th, and Swervedriver's survival guide
Unrelenting rain thins the numbers and shows our schedule the window when the festival should be in full swing. There’s an appointment to keep wit... Read more »| 21 Mar 2015 -
FestivalsSXSW Music Diary: Viet Cong, Courtney Barnett, and The Twilight Sad's South By advice
Day three of our time at SXSW Music conference starts with a sobering reminder that there’s absolutely no bloody way we’re going to see half the ... Read more »| 21 Mar 2015 -
Festivals
The Phantom Band, Golden Teacher, Hector Bizerk lead Electric Fields line-up
The initial line-up for the Electric Fields festival at Drumlanrig Castle has been announced, with Glasgow-based sextet The Phantom Band, hip-hop crew Hector... Read more »| 20 Mar 2015 -
FestivalsSXSW Music Diary: Hudson Mohawke, United Fruit, and Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
With its Tech and Film strands already in full flow by the time our plane touched the tarmac, this past Tuesday marked the beginning of South By Southwest&rs... Read more »| 20 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
Personal Best – Arnos Vale
Positivity’s a risky business. Even 20 years on from the angst-drenched 90s – when not only pop but also irony has eaten and regurgitated itself,... Read more »| 19 Mar 2015 -
Festivals
Supersonic Festival announces new batch of artists for 2015
Experimental music and arts festival Supersonic has announced a second wave of acts for its 2015 edition in Birmingham this June. Industrial-pop auteur Eliz... Read more »| 18 Mar 2015
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Festivals
ATP announce North Wales weekender with The Notwist, Ought, Blanck Mass
All Tomorrow’s Parties have announced their first UK holiday camp weekender since 2013, with a Chapman Brothers-curated line-up set for Prestatyn, Nort... Read more »| 18 Mar 2015 -
Festivals
Edinburgh International Festival unveils 2015 programme
The programme for the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival has been revealed, with a host of world premieres and one-offs planned across theatre, dance and ... Read more »| 18 Mar 2015 -
News
Riverside Festival Announces Warm-Up Events
Philadelphia techno legend Josh Wink is among the big names at a series of warm-up events ahead of this May's Electric Frog & Pressure Riversid... Read more »| 18 Mar 2015 -
ReviewsThe Lucid Dream – The Lucid Dream
The name is, of course, deliberate. The Lucid Dream is the band, album title and state of consciousness the music is reaching for. The Carlisle group have re... Read more »| 18 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
Buena Vista Social Club – Lost and Found
"We want our music to endure" are the words of singer Omara Portuondo that are unlikely to stop echoing in the critic-sphere. Now the hype surrounding the fi... Read more »| 18 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
Death Cab For Cutie – Kintsugi
“You’ve haunted me all my life,” runs Ben Gibbard’s refrain near the midpoint of Death Cab For Cutie’s latest; given the ubiqui... Read more »| 18 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
Polar Bear – Same As You
The oft-Mercury-nominated avant-jazz experimentalists Polar Bear return with a shimmeringly beautiful 55 minutes of measured breathing and humanity. Same As ... Read more »| 17 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
Blueflint – Stories From Home
From Mogwai to King Creosote to Edinburgh Leithers, Blueflint – producer Paul Savage is trading his cards for the increasingly niche. Yet this band did... Read more »| 17 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
Benoît Pioulard – Sonnet
Submerging into a white-wash of distilled ambience from the outset, yes, we’ve still got the same Benoît Pioulard. But this time we’re offe... Read more »| 17 Mar 2015