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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NewsThe 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 -
ReviewsAcid 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 -
ReviewsFat Freddy's Drop – Blackbird
The third album proper from super-tight New Zealand outfit Fat Freddy's Drop achieves what it sets out to in spades. From the title track onwards, its blend ... Read more »| 26 Jul 2013 -
ReviewsGrant Hart – The Argument
It opens with a squealing loop, tribal percussion and spoken word dramatics. A fat twenty tracks later it exits with an extended coda fashioned from little m... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
Live Music
Gig Highlights – Scotland, August 2013
Song, By Toad's inaugural Pale Imitation Festival offers respite from flyer dodging, plus gigs from King Creosote, Swans, Patti Smith, Tame Impala and The Twilight Sad, and an unmissable live outing for David Byrne & St. Vincent Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
Live Music
Mogwai perform Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait @ Albert Hall, 19 July
It's impossible to question Manchester's heritage when it comes to either football or music, so it always seemed a sensible choice for Manchester Internation... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013
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Live Music
Stealing Sheep / All We Are / Prides @ East Village Arts Club, 17 July
It’s hot. Everyone in this sweltering Victorian loft knows it’s hot. Right now, a gig is a tiring proposition, but we soldier on because it&rsquo... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
Live Music
The New Mendicants @ International Anthony Burgess Foundation, 13 July
Supergroups are a risky business. For every Gutter Twins-style success, there’s a Broken Bells – a set of mouthwatering ingredients that just tas... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
Medicine – To The Happy Few
Reunited by Captured Tracks to release their back catalogue, 90s LA shoegazers Medicine decided to record a new album, and the result is far from the wall-of... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
Moderat – Moderat II
There were seven years between Moderat’s first EP and album, with the Modeselektor duo and Apparat’s Sascha Ring putting the gap down to “a... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
The Civil Wars – The Civil Wars
With three Grammys on their mantelpiece, The Civil Wars’ slick output has no shortage of admirers. The secrets of their success are obvious: both Joy W... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
Live Music
Church of Noise – August 2013
From the return of the much-missed John Knox Sex Club to a cheerio show from Texas Is the Reason, we take a whirlwind tour of the more esoteric sounds to be found on the circuit this August Read more »| 24 Jul 2013 -
Festivals
In Pictures: Insider Festival 2013
Insider Festival 2013 Images from this years Insider Festival all the way up in Inshriach, Aviemore. Photography by Ingrid Mur Read more »| 24 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
Washed Out – Paracosm
A paracosm is a psychological term for a spectacularly detailed imaginary world – think Tolkien’s Middle Earth or Westeros in George RR Mart... Read more »| 24 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
Newsted – Heavy Metal Music
The rock journeyman finally releases his solo debut. It’s just over a decade since Jason Newsted called time on his 15 years with Metallica, a gig he l... Read more »| 24 Jul 2013