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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FestivalsOther Worlds 2016: Festival Watch
Sun, sea, sex and sand? Other Worlds festival, this April’s adventure of the senses, can’t promise all four – but it’ll give it a jolly good try. Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
Reviews
Future of the Left – The Peace and Truce of...
“The proper music abounds,” sneer Future of the Left on their fifth album, taking potshots at the tedium of 'authenticity' while barrel-roll... Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
Reviews
Black Mountain – IV
Those searching for echoes of Black Mountain's thunderous 2008 release In The Future won't find it in latest record IV. This is certainly not to say that the... Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
ReviewsYeasayer – Amen and Goodbye
If there’s a suspicion that Brooklyn’s Yeasayer try just a little too hard, it’s not a feeling that their fourth LP is going to disprove; A... Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
ReviewsModerat – III
'Why must I hide / In the forests of my mind?' asks Sascha Ring – aka Apparat – in the opening lines of Eating Hooks. It’s as cle... Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
Reviews
Frankie Cosmos – Next Thing
'I’m 20, washed up already,' sings Frankie Cosmos on the appositely-titled I’m 20, in what may just be the most misleading lyric of the year.&nbs... Read more »| 24 Mar 2016
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FestivalsRock en Seine announces first bands for 2016
The first acts for this year's Rock en Seine festival in Paris have been announced, with Massive Attack and Iggy Pop among those confirmed to take the vetera... Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
Reviews
Gnod – Mirror
Nothing if not prolific, Salford’s favourite Krautrock connoisseurs (let’s ignore The Fall’s I Am Damo Suzuki for the moment) follow-up las... Read more »| 23 Mar 2016 -
Reviews
Laura Gibson – Empire Builder
Album number four from the Oregon native is a deft furthering of her folk roots and collaborative leanings. With input from Alela Diane and seasoned journeym... Read more »| 23 Mar 2016 -
Reviews
Tacocat – Lost Time
Seasons change, trends come and go, yet one thing is forever guaranteed: some joyless swine is itching to tell you that guitar pop is dead. Don’t plan ... Read more »| 23 Mar 2016 -
News
GIT Award shortlist for 2016 revealed
Liverpool music prize The GIT Award has revealed a twelve-strong shortlist for this year's award. Read more »| 22 Mar 2016 -
Opinion
Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise @ Glasgow CCA, 9 Mar
"Atomic nature isn't necessarily tragic – it's sublime, in a way." From Mark Cousins, the prolific Belfast-born film producer/director seated toni... Read more »| 21 Mar 2016 -
Live Music
SxSW Music Diary: Sugarmen, Fizzy Blood & Demob Happy
Sugarmen impress and Fizzy Blood deliver a manic set that will stand out as a high point of the conference, but Demob Happy underwhelm. The Roots jam session turns away hundreds of hopefuls, highlighting the problems of Sx's unchecked growth. Read more »| 20 Mar 2016 -
Live Music
SxSW Music Diary: Duncan Fellows, Joseph & Sylvan Esso
A lightning storm threatens to halt proceedings on a day where folk acts Joseph and Sylvan Esso are standouts, plus local band Duncan Fellows share their thoughts on surviving South-by craziness. Read more »| 20 Mar 2016 -
Live Music
SxSW Music Diary: CHVRCHES, KLOE & Earl Sweatshirt
CHVRCHES take time out to talk about returning to Austin, KLOE reflects on her first Austin experience, 2 Chainz liights up a rooftop party, and the enigmatic Earl Sweatshirt continues to struggle to find himself in a show at Moody Theater. Read more »| 19 Mar 2016