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 MusicGold Panda @ East Village Arts Club, Liverpool, 23 November
Following the release of his second album Half of Where You Live in June, Berlin-based, Essex-born producer Gold Panda takes to the stage in Liverpool for th... Read more »| 28 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
Ejecta – Dominae
Joel Ford (Tigercity / Ford + Lopatin) joins vocalist Leanne Macomber of Neon Indian for an album of unabashedly retro synth-pop which manages to combine the... Read more »| 28 Nov 2013 -
ReviewsThere Will Be Fireworks – The Dark, Dark Bright Album Review
For a band intimately familiar with the power of grand crescendos and bristling upsurges, the near silence that followed There Will Be Fireworks’ self-... Read more »| 27 Nov 2013 -
Opinion
Hero Worship: Cliff Martinez on Captain Beefheart
Soundtrack composer (Drive, Only God Forgives, Sex, Lies and Videotape) and former drummer for Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Dickies, Cliff Martinez tells us of his lifelong love for Captain Beefheart, and what it was like to work with him Read more »| 27 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
New War – New War
“Come to me, oh come to me,” repeats the opening battle chant in Game of Love, over a relentless, accelerating drum salvo, establishing the eerie... Read more »| 27 Nov 2013 -
ReviewsThe Fauns – Lights
Alison Garner’s mannered, half-whispered vocals are the first clue that The Fauns are very much in thrall to the apparently immortal influence of the e... Read more »| 27 Nov 2013
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ReviewsGoat – Live Ballroom Ritual
The release of this Swedish psych-rock collective’s debut World Music last year attracted a flurry of attention, not least because of the band’s ... Read more »| 27 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
Robert Pollard – Blazing Gentlemen
Even by his own effusive standards, 2013 has been a busy year for Robert Pollard. Incredibly, Blazing Gentlemen is the Ohioan’s sixth full-length ... Read more »| 27 Nov 2013 -
Videos
An interview with directors Fleur & Manu: Music Video Profile
After their recent award wins at the UKMVA's, directors Fleur & Manu talk to us about their creative approach to making music videos Read more »| 26 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
Kosheen – Solitude
Since their formation in 1999, this Bristol-based electronica trio have explored a variety of genres, including trip-hop, drum n’ bass and breakbeat, w... Read more »| 26 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
Super Adventure Club – Straight From The Dick
On their previous album, Super Adventure Club recommended avoiding zombies; now, alas, they’ve become one, with Straight From The Dick arriving posthum... Read more »| 26 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
Brendan Canning – You Gots 2 Chill
When exactly does Brendan Canning sleep? It seems faintly ludicrous that despite his myriad bands, soundtrack projects and DJ commitments – not to ment... Read more »| 26 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
No Joy – Wait to Pleasure
11 tracks of absolutely top-quality shoegaze from Montreal's No Joy, unabashedly plundering everything from My Bloody Valentine (the faded female vocals and ... Read more »| 26 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Live from KCRW
Recorded in LA for radio station KCRW earlier this year, this fourth Cave live set splices selections from recent studio album Push the Sky Away with choice ... Read more »| 26 Nov 2013 -
Live Music
METZ @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 22 November
The last time Toronto trio METZ were in town, they were at the other end of a three-band bill, opening up for Meat Puppets and Mudhoney at Academy 2. To... Read more »| 26 Nov 2013