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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InterviewsMugstar unveil Magnetic Seasons
One of Liverpool's longest-serving bands are finally starting to get their just rewards: Mugstar's Jason Stoll on how both the psych community and their own lack of expectations helped Read more »| 01 Mar 2016 -
Live MusicScottish Gig Highlights – March 2016
Wave goodbye to dark days and let in the light. Well, if you equate the likes of Pelican, Clint Mansell and Grimes with springtime cheer Read more »| 29 Feb 2016 -
Live Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – March 2016
March madness takes hold of the music calendar, with out-there experiments from Ryoichi Kurokawa, A-Bound festival and FutureEverything all on offer this month Read more »| 27 Feb 2016 -
ReviewsLust For Youth – Compassion
Better Looking Brother, Compassion’s marathon lead single and standout moment, represents both the quintessential Lust For Youth track and a first step... Read more »| 27 Feb 2016 -
Reviews
New Albums This Week: Steve Mason, School of Seven Bells
The best new releases hitting the shelves this week, featuring the return of Beta Band mastermind Steve Mason, a heartfelt swansong from School of Seven Bells, and the long-awaited debut from Holy Esque Read more »| 26 Feb 2016 -
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Adam Stafford – Taser Revelations
Taser Revelations promises shock and awe in its title, and delivers on the latter. After 2013’s subtly transformational Imaginary Walls Collapse, Adam ... Read more »| 26 Feb 2016
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ReviewsSchool of Seven Bells – SVIIB
When Alejandra Deheza and Benjamin Curtis started work on School of Seven Bells’ fourth album in the summer of 2012, they definitely had no thought tha... Read more »| 26 Feb 2016 -
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Underworld – Barbara Barbara We Face a Shining Future
Underworld’s first album in six years starts with what could arguably be described as their biggest banger since Beaucoup Fish's Kittens from 1999. I E... Read more »| 26 Feb 2016 -
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James – Girl at the End of the World
James enter their fourth decade with at least a sliver of their original, dissident character intact. Girl at the End of the World is, on one level, mor... Read more »| 26 Feb 2016 -
Festivals
LCD Soundsystem set for T in the Park 2016
LCD Soundsystem will play their first Scottish show since 2010 at this summer's T in the Park festival at Strathallan Castle. Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
FestivalsWin prizes at Sounds from the Other City festival!
Sounds from the Other City festival returns to Salford this May bank holiday, filling venues and streets with its usual madcap mix of music, art and performa... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
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Matthew Bourne – Moogmemory
The improvisational pianist, composer and winner of 2001's Perrier Jazz Award takes a step aside from his multiple collaborative projects to immerse himself ... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
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Mugstar – Magnetic Seasons
Heavyweight psychedelic Liverpudlians Mugstar return with a record that takes tripped-out space rock to its disorienting maximum. Exclusively instrumental (a... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
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Richard J Birkin – Vigils
Inspired by river mist and Murakami, and carrying echoes of Nils Frahm and Max Richter’s Sleep, sound artist/composer Birkin’s new work is behold... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
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Wintersleep – The Great Detachment
Now a decade and a half into their career, the typically dependable Canadian rockers return with their first LP since 2012's Hello Hum. Produced by Tony... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016