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 MusicSpeedy Ortiz @ The Shipping Forecast, Liverpool, 19 May
Looking for tonight’s watchword? Let’s go with LOUD. Speedy Ortiz are a beautifully complex tangle of interloping guitar freakouts, head-wrecking... Read more »| 21 May 2014 -
InterviewsReturn of the Black Sun: Robert Hampson on reprising Loop
After a twenty-four year hiatus, Loop shocked fans with a sudden announcement of a reformation in 2013. About to play these shores on a co-headline tour with Godflesh, frontman Robert Hampson speaks to us about his absence and his return Read more »| 20 May 2014 -
Interviews
A New Beat: Liverpool's Låpsley in profile
A rising talent on Liverpool’s music scene, last month Låpsley (aka Holly Lapsley Fletcher) became the inaugural winner of the GIT Award’s One to Watch prize. We caught up with her at the ceremony Read more »| 19 May 2014 -
ReviewsPlaid – Reachy Prints
Returning in 2011 with the somewhat underwhelming Scintilli, Plaid have kept their hand in, but Reachy Prints sees them return with gusto to the ambitious sonic realms of their golden age, and deliver an album that almost ranks with their best Read more »| 19 May 2014 -
Videos
Ten Rapid: latest videos from clipping, Deltron 3030, East India Youth, Mogwai, and more
The soundtrack to your Monday from The Skinny, also featuring Das Racist's Kool A.D. playing in a tree; Deltron 3030 in a bizarre team-up with Jamie Cullum; punk exuberance from Fucked Up; and Bonnie 'Prince' Billie's extremely weird dog Read more »| 19 May 2014 -
Live Music
Hauschka @ The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester, 16 May
With the International Anthony Burgess Foundation intimately curtained off and laid out in the round with a piano in the centre adorned with oddities li... Read more »| 19 May 2014
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PlaylistsCloud Sounds #17: with Buzz Osborne, Liars, Black Pus, Rose Windows and more
Our Music team's weekly playlist also showcases new tracks from Slugabed, remixing a Goldie classic; metal / rap fusion from Matmos side-project The Soft Pink Truth; esoteric electronica from Nathan Fake, Fis and Slugabed, and much more Read more »| 16 May 2014 -
Reviews
Tuff Love – Junk EP
Johnny Lynch’s first new signings since he transplanted the bulk of the Fence roster to his new Lost Map label, Glasgow trio Tuff Love are already dab ... Read more »| 15 May 2014 -
Live Music
Tori Amos @ O2 Academy, 10 May
Tonight we are very much guests in Tori Amos´ house. There is a reassuring assertiveness and sense of purpose in the way the singer, now turned 50, sug... Read more »| 15 May 2014 -
News
Remember Remember preview third album, Forgetting The Present
On 30 June, Glasgow's Remember Remember return with their new album Forgetting The Present, on Mogwai's Rock Action label. Today, the band unveiled the first... Read more »| 15 May 2014 -
Live Music
Action Bronson @ Manchester Club Academy, 12 May
What's a great performer made of? In Action Bronson's case, a 300 pound, 5’7” stack of a man that spits words in a Queens tongue. As the show ope... Read more »| 15 May 2014 -
Reviews
WIFE – What's Between
Perhaps the most accessible release so far from the unimpeachable Tri-Angle label, WIFE offers up his full-length debut, a gleaming, polished collection of g... Read more »| 15 May 2014 -
Festivals
In Pictures: Sounds from the Other City 2014
Sounds from the Other City 2014 Divided by the river Irwell from Manchester, it can often be forgotten that Salford has a vibrant DIY scene of its own. Now ... Read more »| 14 May 2014 -
Live Music
Swans, Wolf Eyes, Matmos and more for Supersonic 2014
Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival occupies an exalted position at the vanguard of the festival circuit. And rightly so. Since its inception over ten yea... Read more »| 14 May 2014 -
Reviews
Martha – Courting Strong
"Now I may be a reject / But to tell the truth, you’re scarier than a prefect." With every dimwit commentator lauding the recent past as some hazy utop... Read more »| 14 May 2014