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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ReviewsAmerican Werewolf Academy – Out Of Place All The Time
Goddam these songs. Just when you think you’ve seen too many straight-up powerpop bands or heard enough Guided By Voices classics getting bent outta sh... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Live MusicDean Blunt @ Blade Factory, Liverpool, 30 November
For all the talk of ex-Hype Williams man Dean Blunt's fickle stage manner – there's a palpable air of trepidation in tonight's cold, minimally lit Blad... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Reviews
After the Burial – Wolves Within
After the Burial's fourth LP may be crammed with sinister riffs and guttural growls, but like past efforts, the production is slick: every guitar slam and to... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
ReviewsThe Gentle Good – Y Bardd Anfarwol
Following a six-week artistic residency at the Theatre of Performing Arts in Chengdu in 2011, Welsh folk singer and guitarist Gareth Bonello returned to the ... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
News
How To Dress Well offer mix featuring Deafheaven, Grimes and Mariah Carey
Ethereal R&B producer Tom Krell, alias How To Dress Well, has produced a new 30-minute mix for US clothing brand Safe House USA. Featuring exclusive edit... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
ReviewsbEEdEEgEE – Sum / One
Experimentation is risky by nature, and too often the results can be sloppy, disquieting drivel. On paper, the seemingly attention-deficit audio salad that c... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013
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Reviews
Paper Beat Scissors – Paper Beat Scissors
Released back in March 2012 in his adopted home of Canada, Burnley-born songwriter Tim Crabtree belatedly brings his debut album as Paper Beat Scissors to th... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
Videos
'Bird Of Passage' from Sweet Gum Tree & Isobel Campbell
Watch the video for Sweet Gum Tree & Isobel Campbell’s Bird Of Passage. Taken from the forthcoming debut LP, The Snakes You Charm & The Wolves ... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
Live Music
The Pixies / The Jezabels @ Barrowlands, 22 November
In a Glaswegian musical weekend boasting The Pixies, Shellac and noise-rock throw-backs Metz, you could be forgiven for thinking that you had tumbled, ripped... Read more »| 29 Nov 2013 -
News
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 29 November
In today's Bulletin: An update on the Human Is Not Alone project; awesome Christmas-wear from Queens Of The Stone Age; George R.R. Martin discusses Game of Thrones; Ron Reyes leaves Black Flag; Scottish film in trouble; plus the latest Festival news Read more »| 29 Nov 2013 -
News
The Bulletin: New Music & Videos | 29 November
A round up of new videos, tracks, mixes and live performances from Wu-Tang Clan, Camera Obscura, James Holden, Daniel Avery, The Pastels, Rustie, Factory Floor, Eminem, Diplo, and The Velvet Underground; plus the latest film trailers Read more »| 29 Nov 2013 -
Interviews
In Hindsight: Songs: Ohia's Magnolia Electric Co. revisited
Following Jason Molina's death earlier this year, Secretly Canadian have reissued 2003's Magnolia Electric Co. album to mark its ten-year anniversary. We reappraise this pivotal moment in the career of an under-appreciated and prodigiously talented figure Read more »| 29 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
Dear Reader – We Followed Every Sound
Revisiting recent concept album Rivonia with the help of the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg orchestra, We Followed Every Sound highlights much of what ma... Read more »| 28 Nov 2013 -
Live Music
Gold Panda @ East Village Arts Club, Liverpool, 23 November
Following the release of his second album Half of Where You Live in June, Berlin-based, Essex-born producer Gold Panda takes to the stage in Liverpool for th... Read more »| 28 Nov 2013 -
ReviewsEjecta – Dominae
Joel Ford (Tigercity / Ford + Lopatin) joins vocalist Leanne Macomber of Neon Indian for an album of unabashedly retro synth-pop which manages to combine the... Read more »| 28 Nov 2013