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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ReviewsMitski – Puberty 2
Puberty’s a time of peak emotions but it’s also one of chronic navel-gazing, making it dangerous territory for musicians. Fortunately, Puberty 2 ... Read more »| 01 Jun 2016 -
Festivalsbluedot fest adds Beth Orton, Tim Burgess and more
A new festival at Jodrell Bank, bluedot, has today announced a third wave of additions to the line-up, which already features Jean-Michel Jarre, Caribou and art by Brian Eno. Read more »| 01 Jun 2016 -
Live MusicScottish Gig Highlights – June 2016
With stadium rock Gods swooping in from on high, plus Glasgow's West End Festival and Edinburgh's Hidden Door in full flow, neither coast should struggle for... Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
Festivals
Liverpool Psych Fest adds Pure Phase Ensemble
Liverpool Psych Fest 2016 has announced the first ever UK show for Pure Phase Ensemble, featuring Mark Gardener of Ride. Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
Live Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – June 2016
The balmy summer evenings that we should, in theory, soon get will go perfectly with shimmering Scandi pop from Molly Nilsson, reggae festival Positive Vibration and upbeat genre-crossing sounds from the Max Graef Band. Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
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SUMAC – What One Becomes
Having released one of 2016’s most ethereally beautiful albums in the form of Mamiffer’s The World Unseen, former Isis dude Aaron Turner crops up... Read more »| 31 May 2016
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Interviews
The Ever New: Introducing WOMPS
Ahead of an appearance at Brew at the Bog, Glasgow duo WOMPS look forward to dropping their debut in June, and reflect on their fertile collaboration, recording with Steve Albini, and shaking off labels Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
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Margaret Glaspy – Emotions and Math
Those of us who’ve followed Glaspy’s development these past few years via a series of self-produced live YouTube performances might find her long... Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
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Red Sleeping Beauty – Kristina
More expertly assembled, deftly executed, tastefully presented electro-pop. Sheesh. Somebody buy 2016 a Boss DS-1 and make it snappy. This Swedish indie pop... Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
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Rick Redbeard – Awake Unto
Album number two is halfway between the debut and the Phantoms: a fine place to be Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
Reviews
THROWS – THROWS
Reykjavík-based duo Mike Lindsay and Sam Genders, aka THROWS, arrive with warm-hearted Icelandic indie rock designed to thaw your cold, cold hear... Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
ReviewsPAWS – No Grace
Funny that a band like PAWS can sound so of their time and yet so far removed from it. On one hand their brand of pop-punk sounds positively archaic compared... Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
ReviewsWOMPS – Our Fertile Forever
With lean trebly riffs over whines and wails, hummable hooks, and precise rhythms, Our Fertile Forever marks the official birth of a band that’s alread... Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
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Weaves – Weaves
Weaves take a half ton of risks on their self-titled debut LP, but savvy listeners will expect nothing less from this colourful Canadian quartet. They smashe... Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
Live Music
Cate Le Bon @ Gorilla, Manchester, 23 May
Just minutes after this remarkable, head-spinning show, Cate Le Bon is left nonplussed by the strangest kind of half-compliment when one of her Twitter follo... Read more »| 27 May 2016