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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ReviewsLykke Li – I Never Learn
The final part of a thematic trilogy that began with 2008 debut Youth Novels, I Never Learn takes Lykke Li’s work a shade darker and a notch glummer &n... Read more »| 29 Apr 2014 -
ReviewsKreidler – ABC
Düsseldorf's Kreidler are two decades deep, combining drifting ambient soundscapes with complex yet understated rhythmic patterns and richly-textured el... Read more »| 29 Apr 2014 -
ReviewsWussy – Attica!
If there’s one area where US music has always excelled, it’s depicting the dark underside to the nation’s sunny exterior. Country music exp... Read more »| 29 Apr 2014 -
Reviews
Gruff Rhys – American Interior
Fresh from writing shiny electro-pop chronicling the life of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli as one half of Neon Neon, Gruff Rhys reverts to his own name to tell t... Read more »| 29 Apr 2014 -
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Killer Be Killed – Killer Be Killed
Killer Be Killed – a new collaboration featuring members of Soulfly, Mastodon, The Dillinger Escape Plan and The Mars Volta – intelligently splic... Read more »| 29 Apr 2014 -
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Fat Goth – One Hundred Percent Suave
Fat Goth don't have immediate crossover appeal; their music is too heavy and takes too many sharp changes in direction that can leave the casual listener str... Read more »| 29 Apr 2014
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Interviews
Love Buzz: Brody Dalle on balancing motherhood with recording her solo debut
With her first solo release Diploid Love set to confirm her as an increasingly accomplished songwriter, Brody Dalle explains why the dual demands of family and music are a problem she's happy to have Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Live Music
The Body / VOE @ Audio, Glasgow, 22 April
Dotted inbetween the bald-headed and bearded metal-heads who are tonight's main audience are a handful of nervous-looking hipster types (this reviewer among ... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Festivals
In Pictures: Threshold 2014
Threshold Festival 2014 The fourth year of Liverpool's grassroots festival of music and arts commandeered a clutch of venues in the Baltic Triangle over the... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Reviews
Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots
Damon Albarn's solo debut proper doesn't feel like it labours under the weight of anticipation – the Blur front-man has already proved everything ... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
ReviewsFatima Al Qadiri – Asiatisch
Kuwait-born Fatima Al Qadiri, first associated with the 'vaporwave' microgenre, reveals herself to be worthy of the hype on her Hyperdub debut. The dominant ... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Videos
Ten Rapid: New music videos from The Horrors, Damon Albarn, tUnE-yArDs and more
The soundtrack for your weekend from The Skinny, also featuring controversy-baiting new Scottish hip-hop from Loki, ethereal blues from Mazzy Star, high weirdness from Sweden's The Skull Defekts, and some good old-fashioned rock and roll from Black Lips Read more »| 25 Apr 2014 -
ReviewsBrody Dalle – Diploid Love
Much has been made of Brody Dalle’s transition from gobby punk reprobate to Hollywood mom. Jeez – what? A tattoo on her arm offering a frien... Read more »| 25 Apr 2014 -
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The Last Battle – Lay Your Burden Down
Opening their second album with a robust Be-My-Baby beat, returning Edinburghers The Last Battle initially seem a somewhat different band to that which made ... Read more »| 25 Apr 2014 -
Festivals
Northwest Festival Watch: Liverpool Sound City
Bird and Ex-Easter Island Head consider the scope of Liverpool Sound City on the run-up to the May bank holiday weekend event Read more »| 24 Apr 2014