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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FestivalsAfrica Oyé 2015 @ Sefton Park, Liverpool, 20-21 Jun
Strolling up Liverpool’s Lark Lane to the vibrant green of Sefton Park for the Sunday of Africa Oyé, it is clear that, here, a strong sense of c... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Interviews
Under the Influence: Failure on The Cure, Big Star, Blonde Redhead and more
Returning from a 17-year break with a cosmic odyssey titled The Heart Is a Monster this month, the reactivated LA space rock trio reveal the albums that make up their DNA. Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
News
Northwest Music News: 20 Tracks of the Year So Far
With half the year already gone, it's time to recap on the best of what music we've covered in the Northwest as well as a few tracks that slipped through the cracks. Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
ReviewsQluster – Tasten
Labels such as 'neo-classical' don’t always assist. It doesn’t do justice to the stark, abstract, and at times ambient beauty a work such as Tast... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
ReviewsFailure – The Heart Is a Monster
The fourth Failure album that seemed a pipe dream for so long calls in at the same spaceport the LA trio left us marooned on when they split with 1996’... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Live Music
Mogwai @ Barrowland, Glasgow, 21 June
Mogwai have always been reticent, both in the vocal-to-instrumental ratio of their output, and also in their propensity towards onstage chit-chat. Yet tonigh... Read more »| 26 Jun 2015
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Live Music
Hanni El Khatib @ Broadcast, Glasgow, 22 June
Mondays may not be synonymous with drunken debauchery, but Broadcast is alive and kicking tonight as LA-based Hanni El Khatib takes the stage for an evening ... Read more »| 26 Jun 2015 -
ReviewsPrefuse 73 – Every Colour Of Darkness
Prefuse 73’s music is like an unscratched itch. Guillermo S. Herren belongs to that small band of producers, including Flying Lotus, who take a hip-hop... Read more »| 26 Jun 2015 -
Reviews
Sleaford Mods – Key Markets
Jason Williamson: lyrical clusterbomb, full of bon mots – often expletives – and prescient observations deployed at dizzying speed. Check him out... Read more »| 26 Jun 2015 -
Reviews
Trembling Bells – The Sovereign Self
The reverberant, harrowing and cathartic vocals of Lavinia Blackwall stretch opener ’Tween the Womb and The Tomb to sheer fullness as she literally sin... Read more »| 26 Jun 2015 -
Reviews
The Orange Humble Band – Depressing Beauty
Ken Stringfellow. Jody Stephens. Jon Auer. Chris Stamey. Mitch Easter. If you are of a certain gender (male), age (um…) and persuasion (into REM when ... Read more »| 25 Jun 2015 -
Reviews
Carlton Melton – Out to Sea
Psychedelic jam band Carlton Melton’s latest cosmic voyage aims to open your mind, but you’ll first need to adjust your expectations. Most tracks... Read more »| 25 Jun 2015 -
Reviews
Rolo Tomassi – Grievances
Rolo Tomassi's complex and uncompromising aesthetic has seen them perhaps fall between two stools: leftfield additions to the Download bill on the one hand; ... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Clubs
Wolstenholme Square plans revealed as Nation announces closing date
Nation, the Liverpool club which spawned the global clubbing institution Cream, will close its doors at the end of the year, as plans for the development of ... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Reviews
Supermoon – Oh Supermoon, Vol. 1
Neil Pennycook has ditched the Meursault moniker. In its place: Supermoon. A threadbare step down from the intricate and skewed folk of his previous out... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015