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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ReviewsAppletop – Brave Mountains
Hailing from the town of Hyères in the sunny Côte d’Azur, Appletop are French on their passports but emphatically American in their musica... Read more »| 04 Mar 2014 -
Playlists
Cloud Sounds #7: with Fat Goth, Kate Tempest, Factory Floor, Cloud Nothings and more
The latest installment of our Music team's regular playlist also features OFF!, J. Spaceman of Spiritualized, Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene, Matthew Dear as Audion, and much more Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
Live Music
Eagulls @ The Shipping Forecast, Liverpool, 27 Feb
It's over too quickly. That's the general consensus in the Shipping Forecast tonight, as a raucous set slaloms to a sudden end. But that's Eagulls for you. T... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
Reviews
Joan as Police Woman – The Classic
There are times, as on the Motown-fuelled Holy City, a breathless, ribald devotional (“Yeah, I’m ready to get up on your wailing wall!”), w... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
NewsLiverpool's Get Into This Award: Shortlist announced, featuring Evian Christ, Ninetails and more
The shortlist for this year's GIT (GetIntoThis) Award has been announced, and it included a few Skinny favourites from Liverpool and beyond, like Evian Crist, Forest Swords, Ninetails, Dan Croll and Tea Street Band Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
ReviewsKing Midas – Rosso
King Midas have some reacquainting to do. Rosso is the Norwegian cult act's first album in six years, but it's also their international debut. An odd blend o... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014
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Reviews
Elbow – The Take Off and Landing of Everything
“Was the universe in rehearsal?” wonders Guy Garvey on opener The World is Blue. Clocking at nearly eight minutes and ghosting to a string-driven... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
Interviews
The Stars And Psychs: Sudden Death of Stars Interviewed
French revivalists Sudden Death of Stars are quietly yet assuredly leading the way in bringing the psych back into pop. Or should that be the other way round? We went all the way to Rennes to investigate Read more »| 01 Mar 2014 -
Videos
Ten Rapid: The best new music videos from EMA, Prince, Dum Dum Girls, The Faint and more
This week's selection of the best new music videos, featuring The Strokes' Albert Hammond Jr., HAIM, and the return of The Faint, plus Cut Copy, Dum Dum Girls, a classic live track from Prince, and much more Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
Videos
Premiere: We Came From Wolves – 'Paradise Place' (Official Video)
Here's an exclusive premiere of the official video for Glasgow-based melodic rock quartet We Came From Wolves' new track, Paradise Place, from their for... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
Reviews
Carla Bozulich – Boy
A veteran of the LA alternative and avant garde music scene, Carla Bozulich uses Boy to align herself with other practitioners of skewed, angular t... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
Live Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – March 2014
Behold! A homecoming gig for Franz Ferdinand, the return of the Radiophonic Workshop, rising stars Machines In Heaven and IndianRedLopez, plus an unmissable gig from German art-pop weirdos The Notwist and Anticon founder Jel Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
Reviews
MØ – No Mythologies To Follow
Following up her feisty 2013 EP Bikini Daze, Danish pop vixen Karen Marie Ørsted – as MØ – unveils her debut No Mythologies To Foll... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
ReviewsMicah P. Hinson – Micah P. Hinson And The Nothing
Back in 2011, a serious road accident brought Micah P. Hinson's tour of Spain to an abrupt halt. Alarmingly, losing the use of his arms was a distinct possib... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
Live Music
O2 Love Music Column – March 2014
If there was ever an artist that just got on with it, despite their circumstances, that’d be prolific albino reggae veteran Yellowman. Raised in a King... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014