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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Interviews“The very idea of being in a band in 2014 is pretty stupid” – Dope Body interviewed
Dope Body's Andrew Laumann and David Jacober say the Baltimore noise rock four-piece are fighting for air on their riotous latest album, Lifer Read more »| 09 Oct 2014 -
Live Music
John Grant and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra @ MediaCityUK, 3 October
A live studio recording of one of America's finest modern songwriters with a world-class orchestra in their own purpose-built facility isn't really a gig for... Read more »| 09 Oct 2014 -
NewsAlice Glass leaves Crystal Castles
Crystal Castles vocalist Alice Glass has announced that she has left the Toronto-based two-piece to focus on solo projects. In a statement on Twitter, Glass... Read more »| 08 Oct 2014 -
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The Postal Service documentary announced, trailer released
A trailer has emerged for Everything Will Change, a new feature-length documentary charting the return of The Postal Service last year. Everything Will Chan... Read more »| 08 Oct 2014 -
Reviews
Dope Body – Lifer
Dope Body’s Lifer wears the fug of the band’s rehearsal room – the Baltimore four-piece barely left it while thrashing this record into sha... Read more »| 08 Oct 2014 -
Videos
tUnE-yArDs releases madcap ‘Real Thing’ video
Merrill Garbus – aka tUnE-yArDs – has released an appropriately bizarre video for ‘Real Thing’ from her latest album Nikki Nack. In ... Read more »| 07 Oct 2014
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News
TV on the Radio release new track ‘Careful You’
US indie rockers TV on the Radio have released ‘Careful You’, the second track from their forthcoming album Seeds. Seeds is the New York band&rs... Read more »| 07 Oct 2014 -
Live Music
Goat / The Lay Llamas / Trembling Bells @ SWG3, 28 September
“Psych” comes in many flavours tonight, with each act on the bill proffering a different strain of heady experimentation. We begin with the medie... Read more »| 07 Oct 2014 -
InterviewsIn June: Ryan Kennedy introduces Horsebeach
Arriving seemingly from nowhere, then selling out the first pressing of his LP, Horsebeach is the project of one Ryan Kennedy, combining a sunny stateside lilt with a moodier Mancunian worldview to attractive effect. He tells the story of his debut record Read more »| 07 Oct 2014 -
Interviews
J Mascis announces January 2015 UK tour
Dinosaur Jr frontman J Mascis is set to return to the UK for a series of gigs in January 2015. Mascis plays The Ruby Lounge in Manchester on 10 Jan and The ... Read more »| 07 Oct 2014 -
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AC/DC unveil ‘Rock or Bust’ tracklist, artwork and lead single
Australian rock legends AC/DC have revealed the tracklist for new LP Rock or Bust, their first studio album in six years. The rockers – who last appea... Read more »| 07 Oct 2014 -
Reviews
Bell Gardens – Slow Dawns For Lost Conclusions
Following 2007’s minimalist monument And Their Refinement of the Decline, ambient-drone duo Stars of the Lid parted company and formed new musical pair... Read more »| 07 Oct 2014 -
Interviews
"This record's a statement: not to prove people wrong, but to prove people right” – The Twilight Sad reveal album four
Having stayed the course throughout a particularly harsh decade for independent rock music, James Graham and Andy MacFarlane say The Twilight Sad won't be moulded by the zeitgeist Read more »| 06 Oct 2014 -
News
Everything Everything's Manchester Central Library takeover events unveiled
The first batch of events to take place during Everything Everything’s Chaos to Order residency at Manchester’s newly-refurbished Central Library... Read more »| 06 Oct 2014 -
FestivalsIn Pictures: Liverpool Psych Fest 2014
In Pictures: Liverpool Psych Fest 2014 Stretching their remit well beyond the idea of flower power and sweaty dudes with wah pedals, the organisers of Liver... Read more »| 03 Oct 2014