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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NewsJames Murphy, Swervedriver and more join East End Social finale weekend
Part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme (and a most welcome addition to the Scottish festival season), The East End Social and Chemikal Underground have ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
ReviewsSlow Club – Complete Surrender
Midway through Everything Is New, the second track on Complete Surrender, the strings and big, gospel-style vocals kick in. At that point the penny... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Reviews
The Icarus Line – Avowed Slavery
Hot on the heels of last year’s slow-burning Slave Vows, California’s meanest return with five more slabs of molten psychosis for our sick pleasu... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
ReviewsThe National Jazz Trio of Scotland – Standards Vol. III
On their third volume of Standards, Bill Wells’ mischievously christened National Jazz Trio of Scotland (actually a quartet, completed by vocalists Aby... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
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Honeyblood – Honeyblood
In tone, Stina Tweeddale’s vocals on Super Rat are disarmingly sweet; in content, they’re scintillatingly vitriolic. “I will hate you forev... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Live MusicO2 Love Music Column – July 2014
If you’re looking for summertime soul, there are few safer hands than Lalah Hathaway, daughter of Chicago legend Donny. Having scooped a Grammy this ye... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014
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Festivals
In Pictures: Africa Oyé 2014
In Pictures: Africa Oyé 2014 Africa Oyé, the UK’s biggest free festival of African music and culture, took place at Sefton Park, Liverpo... Read more »| 27 Jun 2014 -
Reviews
Claude Speeed – My Skeleton
Releases like My Skeleton ground LuckyMe in a more vibrant, experimental milieu than even their brightly-hued, dancefloor-led 12"s. Composed by Stuart T... Read more »| 26 Jun 2014 -
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Anna Calvi – Strange Weather EP
Anna Calvi has defined herself as a singer-songwriter who trades in the markets of gloom and theatrics. With this EP, she has sought to apply her craft to th... Read more »| 26 Jun 2014 -
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Matthewdavid – In My World
Matthewdavid's second album for Brainfeeder is a very different beast to the ambient, experimental textures of his debut, Outmind. Where that album expl... Read more »| 25 Jun 2014 -
Interviews
Wave of Retaliation: The Pixies' Joey Santiago Interviewed
Joey Santiago tells us all about the Pixies new album Indie Cindy, the trials of being on tour and what he would like to do to those who discount the band's reunion as 'a craven cash-in' Read more »| 25 Jun 2014 -
Live Music
Parquet Courts @ The Kazimier, Liverpool, 22 June
Baiting the public: sometimes it’s the only sensible thing to do. OK, Parquet Courts’ rickety racket isn’t exactly disappointing The Kazimi... Read more »| 25 Jun 2014 -
ReviewsTut Vu Vu – Slow Sound Horn EP
Footsteps on a wooden floor. Then a drifting backbeat leads into schizoid trumpet and a decidedly unsettling organ motif. Suddenly, ‘Gallic psyche noir... Read more »| 25 Jun 2014 -
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Bright Light Bright Light – Life Is Easy
Rod Thomas has feelings, and he wants you to know about them. Over a backdrop of super-polished disco beats, he implores us earnestly to know how it feels to... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
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Secret Cities – Walk Me Home
The North Dakota trio’s likeable third album purloins in the best possible way: artfully. Bad Trip pits Marie Parker’s reedy vocals against a bac... Read more »| 23 Jun 2014