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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InterviewsBoom Town Glory: Liverpool's Natalie McCool moves on up
Natalie McCool was working with one of the most respected producers in music. As she readies herself for a new single and an appearance at next month's X&Y Festival, she tells us why it wasn’t working out Read more »| 10 Jun 2014 -
FestivalsIn Pictures: Dot to Dot 2014
In Pictures: Dot to Dot 2014 All-dayer Dot to Dot pitched up for another year at various venues along Oxford Road and its tributary streets and alleyways. C... Read more »| 10 Jun 2014 -
InterviewsAfrica Oyé 2014
With Africa Oyé, the UK's biggest free celebration of African music, returning to its home in Sefton Park this month, we sat down with new festival director Paul Duhaney to find out what makes this event so special Read more »| 10 Jun 2014 -
Live Music
Son Lux @ Broadcast, 3 June
Local lads Kill The Waves draw a big crowd for their dream pop-inflected indie set – tracks Friend and Oak Tree showcase some serious songwriting chops... Read more »| 09 Jun 2014 -
InterviewsLAW comes to town
Lauren Holt started out as a jazz singer in Liverpool and now finds herself in Edinburgh making enigmatic soul music with a hard edge. She explains how her transformation into LAW began in the most unlikely of places Read more »| 09 Jun 2014 -
Reviews
Shield Patterns – Contour Lines
These songs; even the titles build anticipation. Carve the Dirt. Dust Hung Heavy. Present State. Claire Brentnall and Richard Knox’s debut is a hyper-r... Read more »| 09 Jun 2014
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Festivals
Nuits Sonores 2014
Every festival needs a great lineup, but it helps to have a great story too, and Les Nuits Sonores has a doozy. Once upon a time, not so long ago and under ... Read more »| 06 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
Primavera Sound 2014
As we've been telling you for years now, the annual Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona brings a lineup featuring indie rock vets (real indie roc... Read more »| 06 Jun 2014 -
Opinion
Hero Worship: Nick Oliveri on Chris Goss
Nick Oliveri lays his career at the feet of an old mentor, the godfather of desert rock Read more »| 06 Jun 2014 -
Interviews
Ascending The Animal Kingdom: Parquet Courts' Austin Brown Interviewed
Simultaneously everyone’s favourite band and completely misunderstood in 2013, Parquet Courts are back to clarify their position with Sunbathing Animal Read more »| 04 Jun 2014 -
Reviews
Mastodon – Once More ‘Round the Sun
“All my heroes, they’re all dead,” Troy Sanders bellows on Chimes At Midnight’s apocalyptic bridge. It’s another plunge into th... Read more »| 04 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
Supersonic Festival 2014, Birmingham Custard Factory, 30-31 May
Festival programming at its most daring, Supersonic returns with Matmos, Swans, Evil Blizzard, Bill Drummond and Sly & the Family Drone leading the charge on Birmingham's Custard Factory Read more »| 04 Jun 2014 -
Interviews
Embrace the Strange: The Phantom Band return
Three years in the making, Rick Redbeard and Duncan Marquiss talk up the compelling new Phantom Band record, and take the opportunity to renounce sorcery Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
Reviews
Glitterbug – Dust
A companion piece to Gold Panda's globetrotting electronic odyssey Half Of Where You Live, the second album from Till Rohmann, aka Glitterbug, is almost beatless for its first three tracks Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
InterviewsA Good Egg: Danny Brown debunks his myths
As he prepares to play the Parklife Weekender, we speak to Detroit rap star Danny Brown about leaving the lean years behind, mankind's internet future, and why hard-boiled savoury snacks are not the enemy Read more »| 03 Jun 2014