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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ReviewsKill the Captains – Sounds Mean
Pleasingly difficult to pin down, Kill the Captains’ second album Sounds Mean skips around pigeonholes dextrously and with a discernible sense of humou... Read more »| 06 Aug 2013 -
NewsThe Bulletin: Weekly Arts & Culture News Roundup | 31 July
In this week's Bulletin: Are summer blockbusters too big to fail? Nirvana's In Utero reissued for 20th anniversary; plus new music from Nine Inch Nails, Sebadoh, Trail of Dead, Four Tet, Daedelus and more; plus a look at Breaking Bad's final season Read more »| 02 Aug 2013 -
Interviews
The Yawns on their 'HTA' work ethic and embarking on a European tour
The four guys and one girl that make up The Yawns have all paid their dues on the UK circuit with numerous other bands over the years, so what is it that makes this particular group of flatmates so special? Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
Interviews
SoundLAB: Emma Pollock introduces year three of Chem19's studio engineering course
As Chem19's SoundLAB prepares to take in a new batch of students to their practical studio engineering course, we speak to Emma Pollock, course leader, former Delgado, and co-founder of Chemikal Underground Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
ReviewsSuper Adventure Club search for a feel good hit of the summer
On a day off from recording, Bruce Wallace and Mandy Clarke of Super Adventure Club battle hangovers and heatwaves to debate the summer’s singles. “The horse will be here in 5 minutes,” Bruce casually explains, “but we can get started…” Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
Live Music
Wickerman 2013: Saturday, 27 July
With temperatures soaring, Book Group keep their cool to deliver an accomplished set in the GoNorth tent. The ringing guitars and witty – but ofte... Read more »| 01 Aug 2013
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ReviewsSurf City – We Knew It Was Not Going to be Like This
Following a fairly lengthy hiatus, New Zealand’s Surf City pick up more or less where they left off on 2010’s Kudos. Luckily, said debut inhabite... Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
Live MusicWickerman 2013: Friday, 26 July
The impact of the July heatwave can be seen everywhere. Behind the bar in one pub near Partick Cross there’s a chalkboard proclaiming that staff will n... Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
Reviews
Ras_G – Back on the Planet
Ras_G's first album for Brainfeeder since 2009's Brotha From Another Planet is a perfect, psychedelic hybrid of dusty LA beat-scene boom-bap and the cosmic j... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Live Music
O2 Love Music Column – August 2013
For over thirty years now, The B-52's (O2 ABC, 12 Aug) have poised themselves as the ultimate intergalactic, surf-pop, party band. It’s a notion that h... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
Sarah Neufeld – Hero Brother
Best known as violinist in Arcade Fire but having also supplied her talents to Bell Orchestre and The Luyas, Sarah Neufeld’s debut solo album is a natu... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Interviews
The Jesus Lizard's David Yow talks going solo
Having busied himself with acting and illustration in recent years, the inimitable David Yow marks a slight return to the music world by literally dropping his 'accidental' debut solo album like a slab of concrete this month. Don't expect any ballads Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Interviews
The Outer Church comes to Manchester
With tape splicer VHS Head at the helm, Joseph Stannard's Brighton-based night of spooked sonics, The Outer Church, comes to Manchester this month. We are happily indoctrinated into his diocese Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Festivals
Slottsfjell Festival, Tunsberg Norway – 18-20 July
Vic Galloway reports back from the front-lines of Norway's esteemed annual gathering Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Interviews
Under Wraps: Owen Pallett spills secrets
Returning to Manchester for the first time in three years, erudite composer and performer Owen Pallett voices his thoughts on the consumption of music and a certain project he shouldn't be talking about Read more »| 30 Jul 2013