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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InterviewsParadigm Shift: Until The Music Stops
In the second of our three-part series on the arts, we speak to a range of leading lights from all tiers of the independent music industry about labels, revenue and sustainability in the digital age. Is this a brave new world, or a broken dystopia? Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsIn Pictures: Sunday at Beacons 2013
In Pictures: Beacons 2013 Rolling reportage from our two intrepid photographers, running like headless chickens around Beacons festival's second outing at H... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Festivals
In Pictures: Saturday at Beacons 2013
In Pictures: Beacons 2013 Rolling reportage from our two intrepid photographers, running like headless chickens around Beacons festival's second outing at H... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsIn Pictures: Friday at Beacons 2013
In Pictures: Beacons 2013 Rolling reportage from our two intrepid photographers, running like headless chickens around Beacons festival's second outing at H... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Festivals
Beacons Day Three @ Heslaker Farm, Skipton, 18 Aug
We round off our three days of coverage from Beacons festival with waves of psychedelia courtesy of Moon Duo and Hookworms, star turns from Fatima, Theo Parrish and Andres, and a transcendental set from James Holden. We got the post-festival blues Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Interviews
One Step Back, Two Steps Forward: Shigeto in interview
Zach Shigeto Saginaw needed a fresh start after time spent in New York and London; but – as he tells The Skinny – he found it in one of the most unlikely places Read more »| 20 Aug 2013
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Live Music
Swans / Buke and Gase @ The Liquid Room, 13 August
Hearing protection at gigs is a common enough sight among the more safety conscious. For Swans though, day-glo foam ear plugs are considered a pre-requisite ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Live Music
Cold Cave / Natural Assembly / Naked @ Broadcast, 10 August
Naked's jarring, disorientating visuals and haunting VHS imagery creates a thick atmosphere from the outset this evening. The trio marry pounding industrial ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Live Music
Bosnian Rainbows, @ Broadcast, 4 August
Despite his legendary status as a leading figure of both At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta, Bosnian Rainbows guitarist Omar Rodríguez-Lóp... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsBeacons Day Two @ Heslaker Farm, Skipton, 17 Aug
In the second of our live reports from Beacons, a riotous set from Gold Panda proves the stealth highlight of Saturday, while Bicep and Bondax bring the party, and Local Natives soothe frayed nerves with their calming brand of swoon-gaze Read more »| 18 Aug 2013 -
Festivals
Beacons Day One @ Heslaker Farm, Skipton, 16 Aug
Our five intrepid reporters are broadcasting live – well, as live as you can get allowing time for sleep and gin – from this year's Beacons festival. Here's the lowdown on Friday's events, from a sputtering Ghostpoet to a spluttering Fucked Up Read more »| 17 Aug 2013 -
Live Music
Owen Pallett @ Band on the Wall, 12 Aug
“I might have to insist on this track being the walk-on music for all my future gigs, can you imagine?” Owen Pallett smirks, frantically motionin... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
Reviews
Alpha Male Tea Party – Real Ales & Model Rail: A Lonely Man's Guide to Not Committing Suicide EP
Applying choppy time signatures to millennial Britrock in the Hell Is for Heroes/Hundred Reasons vein, Alpha Male Tea Party satisfyingly expand upon the raw ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
ReviewsMONEY – The Shadow of Heaven
Exploring The Shadow of Heaven is like walking around a cold, cavernous, stately mansion. The ecclesiastical architecture gives space for the track... Read more »| 13 Aug 2013 -
Reviews
Georges Vert – An Electric Mind
Having started his musical life as a transposer of classical scores, before a sudden, ephiphanic swerve into synth composition, France’s Georges Vert h... Read more »| 13 Aug 2013