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 MusicThom Yorke, Four Tet + Daphni @ The Warehouse Project, Manchester, 2 November
A combination of Victoria Warehouse's 5000 capacity, the necessary stepping up of security with the venue move from beneath Piccadilly railway station i... Read more »| 07 Nov 2013 -
Live MusicFuture Of The Left @ Broadcast, 2 November
Visibly startled by the sweltering, heaving, meat-patty of bodies, unceremoniously crammed into tonight's capacity show at Broadcast, Future Of The Left join... Read more »| 06 Nov 2013 -
Live MusicBill Orcutt / With Lumps @ The Glad Cafe, 1 November
Bill Orcutt’s following may not be large, but it makes up for that in sheer reverence and awe. The former guitarist in Miami noise legends Harry Pussy ... Read more »| 06 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
Shearwater – Fellow Travelers
Like live albums and B-side compilations, cover version LPs usually occupy a fringe position in an artist’s discography, and Fellow Travelers is no dif... Read more »| 06 Nov 2013 -
ReviewsDead Flowers – Midnight At The Wheel Club
Ian Williams' vocal influences are easy enough to spot – Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave have all clearly been imbibed, imitated and revere... Read more »| 06 Nov 2013 -
Live Music
Parquet Courts / Eagulls @ Mono, 31 October
Despite heavy reverb obscuring much of George Mitchell’s between-song speech, body language and delivery indicate the vocalist is not in the best of mo... Read more »| 05 Nov 2013
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Live Music
Honeyblood / Laura St Jude / Bite @ Broadcast, 29 October
Broadcast tonight hosts three bands who differ in sound though are united in their potential to make a noise in places much further afield than the rough end... Read more »| 05 Nov 2013 -
Interviews
LA Songwriter Julia Holter on Gigi, Lynch and Loud City Song
Julia Holter's previous albums have explored poetry and Greek tragedy. The LA songwriter and composer talks to us about how, with its themes of celebrity and the loss of love, a 1950s musical has influenced her new LP, Loud City Song Read more »| 04 Nov 2013 -
ReviewsM.I.A. – Matangi
M.I.A. returns with a new album, this time with production masterminded in the main by longtime collaborator, Switch. It's as alternately as dark, steamy and... Read more »| 04 Nov 2013 -
News
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 1 November
In today's Bulletin: The music world pays tribute to Lou Reed; Scottish film studio plans complicated by US TV show Outlander; The Scotsman picks the 50 best novels of the last 50 years, and Foals' Yannis Philippakis hits out at Spotify Read more »| 01 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
OvO – Abisso
Halloween may be done with for another year, but there are plenty of long nights ahead; plenty of inky witching hours crying out for a suitably unsettling so... Read more »| 01 Nov 2013 -
Interviews
Synthetic Pleasures: Ubre Blanca in conversation
Formed from the ashes of Shitdisco and Divorce, synth enthusiasts Ubre Blanca discuss their debut EP, retro-futurism, and Glasgow's alternative music scene Read more »| 31 Oct 2013 -
Live Music
Suede / Teleman @ Barrowlands, 27 October
Between the present tour slot and the Bernard Butler-produced debut album due next year, Teleman have been enjoying Suede-related patronage for a while now. ... Read more »| 31 Oct 2013 -
Reviews
Chantal Acda – Let Your Hands Be My Guide
Though billed as her first ‘real solo record’ (following a trio of softly sumptuous slowcore releases under the Sleepingdog moniker), Chantal Acd... Read more »| 31 Oct 2013 -
Interviews
Home Comforts: Wooden Shjips' Ripley Johnson on Back to Land
If previous album West was a story of outward-looking horizons, then Wooden Shjips’ follow-up Back to Land retreats to the familiar – and there’s nothing wrong with that, argues Ripley Johnson Read more »| 31 Oct 2013