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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FestivalsLiverpool Sound City announce first bands for 2016
Sleaford Mods and Young Fathers are among the initial clutch of artists to join the bill for next year's Liverpool Sound City festival. Read more »| 26 Nov 2015 -
ReviewsJess and the Ancient Ones – Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes
Taking the 'does what it says on the tin' approach to album titles, the Finnish sextet’s second long player isn’t going to win many awards for st... Read more »| 26 Nov 2015 -
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Hollie McNish, Eugene Kelly set for Liverpool show
Spoken word star Hollie McNish joins Eugene Kelly of the Vaselines, Pete Wylie and more on a bill mixing live poetry and music at Liverpool's LEAF in January, programmed by Edinburgh collective Neu! Reekie!. Read more »| 26 Nov 2015 -
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Yacht – I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler
YACHT (it stands for Young Americans Challenging High Technology) have punishingly cool credentials: describing themselves variously as an 'avant-garde karao... Read more »| 26 Nov 2015 -
FestivalsField Day announces first bands for 2016
PJ Harvey, the Thurston Moore Band, John Grant and GOAT are among the first names on the bill for the Field Day festival in London's Victoria Park on 11 & 12 June 2016. Read more »| 26 Nov 2015 -
Reviewsjennylee – right on!
If you check the liner notes to right on!, you’ll find a Lindberg on bass and a Mozgawa on the drums… but this is no Warpaint record. Jenny... Read more »| 26 Nov 2015
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LeRoy – Skläsh
Google Translate can't handle Skläsh; after suggesting that it might possibly be a Swedish word, the engine admitted defeat. No matter, because Sklä... Read more »| 25 Nov 2015 -
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Stargaze & Greg Saunier – Deerhoof Chamber Variations
As though Greg Saunier wasn’t busy enough with his various bands, improv exercises, production projects et al, he drops this nifty piece of work. Worki... Read more »| 25 Nov 2015 -
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Matt Berry and The Maypoles – Live
Kooky cultural eccentric Matt Berry’s back. This time, he brings you a live compilation album of his time touring with The Maypoles. Stretching over ma... Read more »| 25 Nov 2015 -
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Alan Vega, Alex Chilton, Ben Vaughn – Cubist Blues
“At the time, I didn’t fully realise how unique the Cubist Blues experience was,” said Vaughn of his 1994 collaboration with Suicide’... Read more »| 25 Nov 2015 -
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Alex Bleeker & The Freaks – Country Agenda
As likable and genuine a fellow as he comes across, Alex Bleeker is a flagrant fibber: “I’m not a fan of looking back,” he sings on Honey, ... Read more »| 25 Nov 2015 -
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Motopony – Welcome You
If it rains a-plenty in the Pacific North West, Seattle’s Motopony possess enough loose, counter-culture cachet to keep us dry and cosy. Combining psyc... Read more »| 25 Nov 2015 -
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Seth Troxler buys Dave Haslam's vinyl collection
The 4,500-strong vinyl record collection of former Haçienda resident Dave Haslam has been purchased by fellow DJ Seth Troxler. Haslam will hand over ... Read more »| 24 Nov 2015 -
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Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard – Noeth Ac Anoeth
Possibly the most potent thing to come out of Wrexham since a Mark Hughes volley, the gloriously named Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard present their heavy, heavy... Read more »| 24 Nov 2015 -
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Band of Gold – Band of Gold
Pop music. It’s such the supermarket; given free reign, and it’s tempting to overfill your trolley. Not so Norwegian singer-songwriter Nina Mortv... Read more »| 24 Nov 2015