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 MusicAfrica Oyé @ Sefton Park, Liverpool, 22-23 Jun
After last year’s washout, Liverpool’s free, weekend-long celebration of all things African returned to Sefton Park at the end of June, with the ... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
Reviews
Roedelius Schneider – Tiden
Between them, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Stefan Schneider have contributed significantly to the development of ambient music since the 70s: Roedelius through... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
ReviewsTeho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld – Still Smiling
This collaboration between Einstürzende Neubauten’s Blixa Bargeld and Italian composer Teho Teardo reveals a strikingly symbiotic relationship bet... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
Live Music
Daniel Bachman / Tom Settle / dbh @ The Castle Hotel, Manchester, 19 Jun
America is a big deal again these days. Every new restaurant seems to be a gourmet burger palace; we watch whatever HBO throws at us, and there has been, in ... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
Reviews
Walton – Beyond
Walton moves away from the dubstep and garage sounds of his early EPs, broadening his scope to take in influences from house, techno and experimental electro... Read more »| 24 Jun 2013 -
Live MusicBass Clef @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 19 Jun
Ralph Cumbers is a multi-instrumentalist, but not a conventional one. His one-man show under the tag Bass Clef is a demonstration of brass and wind inst... Read more »| 24 Jun 2013
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News
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 21 June
A survey of the week's music stories: RM Hubbert takes home the Scottish Album of the Year Award; Four Tet is not Burial (... or is he?); new videos from DOOM, Fuck Buttons, METZ and more Read more »| 21 Jun 2013 -
ReviewsBosnian Rainbows – Bosnian Rainbows
Former At The Drive-In / The Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and Les Butcherettes founder Teri Gender Bender come from dist... Read more »| 21 Jun 2013 -
Reviews
Loki – Edging God Out
The old retirement-and-comeback trick is a hip-hop staple, so how has it worked out for Loki, one of Scotland's most lyrically gifted writers and rappers?&nb... Read more »| 20 Jun 2013 -
ReviewsAustra – Olympia
Kate Stelmanis is a classically trained former opera singer but on album number two, Olympia, her voice imparts drama for its very lack of rhapsody. It&... Read more »| 19 Jun 2013 -
Playlists
NETVERK Podcast: June 2013
Exploring the world of netaudio, the NETVERK podcast returns to The Skinny. This month's show features a more guitar-flecked playlist than the last episode, with tracks from Sonic Hearts Foundation, CRIM3S, and Beacon Read more »| 19 Jun 2013 -
Live Music
Danny Brown @ The Arches, 15 June
Danny Brown's hyper-exaggerated caricature is in full effect tonight. From his mad-haired, gap-toothed appearance to his comically high-pitched voice, i... Read more »| 18 Jun 2013 -
Reviews
Zomby – With Love
Excepting its mammoth run-time, With Love feels similar in both form and execution to Zomby's previous album, Dedication. This time the shadow... Read more »| 18 Jun 2013 -
Live Music
The Stone Roses @ Glasgow Green, 15 June
Every reformed act must dance with their past one way or another, but today The Stone Roses rekindle history in a very specific way, revisiting the... Read more »| 18 Jun 2013 -
Live Music
Neil Young & Crazy Horse @ SECC, 13 June
It would be an understatement to bill Neil Young & Crazy Horse's first Glasgow date since 2001 as an extravagant return. As comically oversized ampl... Read more »| 18 Jun 2013