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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Live MusicWickerman 2013: Friday, 26 July
The impact of the July heatwave can be seen everywhere. Behind the bar in one pub near Partick Cross there’s a chalkboard proclaiming that staff will n... Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
ReviewsRas_G – Back on the Planet
Ras_G's first album for Brainfeeder since 2009's Brotha From Another Planet is a perfect, psychedelic hybrid of dusty LA beat-scene boom-bap and the cosmic j... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Live Music
O2 Love Music Column – August 2013
For over thirty years now, The B-52's (O2 ABC, 12 Aug) have poised themselves as the ultimate intergalactic, surf-pop, party band. It’s a notion that h... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
Sarah Neufeld – Hero Brother
Best known as violinist in Arcade Fire but having also supplied her talents to Bell Orchestre and The Luyas, Sarah Neufeld’s debut solo album is a natu... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Interviews
The Jesus Lizard's David Yow talks going solo
Having busied himself with acting and illustration in recent years, the inimitable David Yow marks a slight return to the music world by literally dropping his 'accidental' debut solo album like a slab of concrete this month. Don't expect any ballads Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Interviews
The Outer Church comes to Manchester
With tape splicer VHS Head at the helm, Joseph Stannard's Brighton-based night of spooked sonics, The Outer Church, comes to Manchester this month. We are happily indoctrinated into his diocese Read more »| 30 Jul 2013
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FestivalsSlottsfjell Festival, Tunsberg Norway – 18-20 July
Vic Galloway reports back from the front-lines of Norway's esteemed annual gathering Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
InterviewsUnder Wraps: Owen Pallett spills secrets
Returning to Manchester for the first time in three years, erudite composer and performer Owen Pallett voices his thoughts on the consumption of music and a certain project he shouldn't be talking about Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Festivals
Beacons festival: Lighting the Way
Beacons festival's second outing amps it up in terms of both acts and art Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Live Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – August 2013
If history teaches us anything, it’s that not many people have had a month named after them; props to Emperor Augustus for achieving this feat some two thousand years ago. Here's our pick of the hottest gigs this month – a selection to make Gus proud Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
The Lucid Dream – Songs of Lies and Deceit
The debut from this Carlisle psych-rock quartet makes no attempt to hide its influences, but in its drawing of links across some impressively disparate terri... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
ReviewsCrocodiles – Crimes of Passion
Since the lo-fi guitar fuzz of early albums Summer of Hate and Sleep Forever, San Diego's Crocodiles have cleaned up their sound immensely. Their shoegaze le... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
The Whigs – Enjoy the Company
Garage rock revival vets The Whigs turn down the fuzz that was so prominent on 2010's In The Dark with the opening statement to their fourth album:... Read more »| 29 Jul 2013 -
News
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 26 July
In this week's Bulletin: All the Superman vs Batman, Avengers and X-Men news from San Diego Comic-Con; the latest Festival news; new music from Franz Ferdinand, Washed Out, PINS and others; plus: design a poster for Irvine Welsh movie adaptation Filth Read more »| 26 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
Acid Washed – House of Melancholy
On paper, Acid Washed sound like a fairly generic Parisian revivalist disco/house duo; yet the second LP from Andrew Claristidge and Richard D’Alpert e... Read more »| 26 Jul 2013