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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InterviewsOne Step Back, Two Steps Forward: Shigeto in interview
Zach Shigeto Saginaw needed a fresh start after time spent in New York and London; but – as he tells The Skinny – he found it in one of the most unlikely places Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Live MusicSwans / Buke and Gase @ The Liquid Room, 13 August
Hearing protection at gigs is a common enough sight among the more safety conscious. For Swans though, day-glo foam ear plugs are considered a pre-requisite ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Live Music
Cold Cave / Natural Assembly / Naked @ Broadcast, 10 August
Naked's jarring, disorientating visuals and haunting VHS imagery creates a thick atmosphere from the outset this evening. The trio marry pounding industrial ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Live Music
Bosnian Rainbows, @ Broadcast, 4 August
Despite his legendary status as a leading figure of both At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta, Bosnian Rainbows guitarist Omar Rodríguez-Lóp... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsBeacons Day Two @ Heslaker Farm, Skipton, 17 Aug
In the second of our live reports from Beacons, a riotous set from Gold Panda proves the stealth highlight of Saturday, while Bicep and Bondax bring the party, and Local Natives soothe frayed nerves with their calming brand of swoon-gaze Read more »| 18 Aug 2013 -
Festivals
Beacons Day One @ Heslaker Farm, Skipton, 16 Aug
Our five intrepid reporters are broadcasting live – well, as live as you can get allowing time for sleep and gin – from this year's Beacons festival. Here's the lowdown on Friday's events, from a sputtering Ghostpoet to a spluttering Fucked Up Read more »| 17 Aug 2013
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Live MusicOwen Pallett @ Band on the Wall, 12 Aug
“I might have to insist on this track being the walk-on music for all my future gigs, can you imagine?” Owen Pallett smirks, frantically motionin... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
Reviews
Alpha Male Tea Party – Real Ales & Model Rail: A Lonely Man's Guide to Not Committing Suicide EP
Applying choppy time signatures to millennial Britrock in the Hell Is for Heroes/Hundred Reasons vein, Alpha Male Tea Party satisfyingly expand upon the raw ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
Reviews
MONEY – The Shadow of Heaven
Exploring The Shadow of Heaven is like walking around a cold, cavernous, stately mansion. The ecclesiastical architecture gives space for the track... Read more »| 13 Aug 2013 -
Reviews
Georges Vert – An Electric Mind
Having started his musical life as a transposer of classical scores, before a sudden, ephiphanic swerve into synth composition, France’s Georges Vert h... Read more »| 13 Aug 2013 -
ReviewsThe Bug – Filthy EP
Kevin Martin aka The Bug returns with a 4-track teaser for the forthcoming album Angels & Devils. He's still emperor of the territory where tough dub sou... Read more »| 09 Aug 2013 -
Live Music
Scott & Charlene's Wedding @ The Shipping Forecast, 7 Aug
“Hope you know that I got no bitterness,” sings Craig Dermody during one of tonight’s rare tender moments. It’s difficult not to hear... Read more »| 08 Aug 2013 -
Reviews
Franz Ferdinand – Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
Alex Kapranos has talked of how Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action comes from "the idea of the cynic's search for optimism.” It’s a compel... Read more »| 08 Aug 2013 -
Reviews
Adrian Corker – Raise
Flecked with crackles, creaks, taps and clicks, Raise is an evocative listen filled with enriching experimental asides – from the analogue tape manipul... Read more »| 08 Aug 2013 -
Interviews
The Democratic Circus: Art pop dreamteam David Byrne and St Vincent discuss their ongoing collaboration
We catch up with the art pop dreamteam of David Byrne and St. Vincent to discuss collaborations, Creationism and the art of cycling while on tour, prior to their imminent visit to these shores later this month Read more »| 07 Aug 2013