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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ReviewsBarbarossa – Bloodlines
'We can’t forget where we’re coming from,' sings James Mathé (AKA Barbarossa) on single Pagliaccio, and he’s right: appreciating the... Read more »| 24 Jul 2013 -
ReviewsScott & Charlene's Wedding – Any Port In a Storm
If the opening one-two of Junk Shop and Lesbian Wife didn’t offer enough cues – the former all languid guitar and sneers, the latter breezie... Read more »| 23 Jul 2013 -
Live MusicClang Boom Steam @ MelloMello, Liverpool, 20 Jul
The launch of Liverpool-based Clang Boom Steam's self-titled debut album proves diverse and intense in equal measure, with the audience treated to an evening... Read more »| 23 Jul 2013 -
Festivals
Sax and the City: Manchester Jazz Festival
Now in its 18th year, Manchester Jazz Festival returns to the city this month, with contemporary upstarts and crumhorns in tow Read more »| 23 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
Toby Gale – Starfruit EP
The debut release from this South London producer is an admirably concise affair: over four tracks, totalling only 12 minutes, Gale flits rapidly through rea... Read more »| 23 Jul 2013 -
Live Music
Shangaan Electro @ The Kazimier Garden, Liverpool, 20 Jul
One! Eight! Seven! One! Eight! Eight! One! Eight... NINE! It's a sweltering day's dusk and Shangaan Electro's Nozinja is hyping a crowd decked... Read more »| 22 Jul 2013
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News
NETVERK Podcast: July 2013
Exploring the world of netaudio, the NETVERK podcast returns to The Skinny, with tracks from The Jet Age of Tomorrow, Sole, and Run The Jewels Read more »| 22 Jul 2013 -
ReviewsDavid Yow – Tonight You Look Like a Spider
Fourteen years on from the Jesus Lizard’s demise (excluding reunion tours), David Yow has finally released a solo debut which was purportedly conceived... Read more »| 19 Jul 2013 -
News
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 19 July
In this week's Bulletin: T in the Park and Kelburn Garden Party in review; a look forward to Wickerman and Doune The Rabbit Hole; Thom Yorke disses Spotify; David Lynch on his second album; new tracks from Bishop Nehru and Daughn Gibson and much more! Read more »| 19 Jul 2013 -
Live Music
T in the Park 2013: Saturday, 13 July
Dundee band Seams have sensibly brought a large number of fans from their home town, who fill the front two rows of the T Break tent and make a lot... Read more »| 18 Jul 2013 -
Live Music
Youth Lagoon @ Gorilla, 16 July
Given that the past few years have seen Manchester's self-proclaimed 'promoters extraordinaire' Now Wave inch towards a monopoly over the city's most excitin... Read more »| 18 Jul 2013 -
Live Music
Kelburn Garden Party, 6-7 Jul
With tickets sold out before the party begins, there is a sense that Kelburn Garden Party has come of age this year, cementing its position as one of the jew... Read more »| 17 Jul 2013 -
Live Music
Nazoranai / Jer Reid & Friends @ Stereo, 10 July
Following Keiji Haino’s rapturously-received solo performance at Tramway last year, his return to Glasgow as one-third of Nazoranai feels like a signif... Read more »| 16 Jul 2013 -
Live Music
Ultramagnetic MCs @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 10 July
Two of Glasgow's finest emcees kick things off, Gasp performing choice cuts from his grim and gritty new album A Series of Fortunate Misunderstandings, ... Read more »| 15 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
Laki Mera – Turn All Memory to White Noise
Laki Mera’s second album (third if you count 2008’s Clutter, which the band apparently doesn’t for whatever reason) emerges in the wak... Read more »| 15 Jul 2013