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 MusicDinosaur Jr @ Liverpool Music Week, 27 Oct
It was legendary Joy Division producer Martin Hannett who told Ian Curtis and co, "I want you to play that again…only this time make it faster, but sl... Read more »| 03 Nov 2016 -
Live MusicClean Cut Kid @ Liverpool Music Week, 29 Oct
Clean Cut's performance at the Arts Club demonstrates that there's much more to come from these fast-rising local heroes Read more »| 03 Nov 2016 -
InterviewsA League of Her Own: Sad13 interview
Taking a break from her work in Massachusetts guitar manglers Speedy Ortiz, Sadie Dupuis goes solo and scores one of the year's most important albums in the process. Here she tells us about the importance of refocussing pop's male-centric narrative Read more »| 03 Nov 2016 -
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Amber Arcades @ Liverpool Music Week, 29 Oct
The Utrecht indie-poppers deliver a sublime performance at the Arts Club Loft Read more »| 03 Nov 2016 -
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Live music in Liverpool this week: 3-8 Nov
Liverpool Music Week may be drawing to a close, but there's still a heap of local bands launching records across the city's music venues this week Read more »| 03 Nov 2016 -
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John Carpenter @ Liverpool Music Week, 28 Oct
The Horror Master heads to Liverpool's Olympia for a truly memorable evening Read more »| 03 Nov 2016
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Interviews
Biffy Clyro on Ellipsis and their UK tour
Ben Johnston of Biffy Clyro discusses the making of the band's new album Ellipsis, and the eclectic influences that fed into the record It may be an ugly wo... Read more »| 03 Nov 2016 -
Live MusicLive music in Manchester this week: 2-8 Nov
It’s a week of bonafide legends from across the board this week, as Manchester welcomes PJ Harvey, The Cinematic Orchestra and Sister Sledge, along with news that John Cale is set to perform Velvet Underground & Nico live in full next year. Read more »| 02 Nov 2016 -
Reviews
The Japanese House – Swim Against the Tide
First Pools to Bathe In, then Clean and now Swim Against the Tide: Amber Bain never fails to disappoint, and her Imogen Heap-esque harmonies, dreamy und... Read more »| 02 Nov 2016 -
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Romare – Love Songs Pt. 2
Archie Fairhurst’s new album, Love Songs Pt. 2, is a more intense, yet at times more tender, follow-up to his debut EP Projections. Signed to Ninja Tu... Read more »| 02 Nov 2016 -
ReviewsYama Warashi – Moon Egg
Yoshino Shigihara's eclectic collective marry Japanese folk with psych grooves and African beats, with madcap flights of fancy. This is dreampop from another... Read more »| 02 Nov 2016 -
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Papa M – Highway Songs
As comebacks go, you can file this one under 'unexpected' – but also 'welcome' and 'a relief'. David Pajo's own work hasn't been seen since his un... Read more »| 02 Nov 2016 -
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American Wrestlers – Goodbye Terrible Youth
What’s that old adage about it taking ten years to become an overnight success? It could very easily apply to Gary McClure, the Scottish frontman of Am... Read more »| 02 Nov 2016 -
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The Pop Group - Honeymoon on Mars
Albums by The Pop Group are like buses: you wait 35 years for one and then two come along at once. At least that was the size of the gap between their 1980 s... Read more »| 02 Nov 2016 -
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Mums – Land of Giants
Mums restrain themselves for all of about 50 seconds of their debut LP before opener Underneath Rocks’ hushed intro collapses amidst a landslide of mul... Read more »| 02 Nov 2016