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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InterviewsGold Sounds: Fuck Buttons return with Slow Focus
Having had their music played to almost one billion people across the world, cosmic dance outfit Fuck Buttons are about to return to normality with third album Slow Focus. Andrew Hung plants his feet on the ground to discuss the benefits of not talking Read more »| 03 Jul 2013 -
Interviews
Soul Searchers: Introducing MONEY
Signed to Bella Union, MONEY preview their pensive, searching debut album with two headline shows at Manchester International Festival this July. Livewire frontman Jamie Lee espouses his thoughts on death, determination, and living in The Shadow of Heaven Read more »| 03 Jul 2013 -
ReviewsNadine Shah – Love Your Dum and Mad
With its gently tremulous textures and smoky intensity, Nadine Shah’s voice is a revelation on Love Your Dum and Mad, her first full-length a... Read more »| 03 Jul 2013 -
Interviews
Kool Keith: Still Ultramagnetic
As his seminal hip-hop group Ultramagnetic MCs prepare to hit the UK to play their classic album Critical Beatdown, Kool Keith tells us why he doesn't want to be called a legend Read more »| 02 Jul 2013 -
PlaylistsJustin Robertson Music Playlist: Under the Influence
The smart sartorialist and crate-digger extraordinaire picks five records currently shaping his cosmos, ahead of his appearance at Lancashire's Beat-Herder Festival this month Read more »| 02 Jul 2013 -
ReviewsLust for Youth – Perfect View
Perfect View is Swedish producer Hannes Norrvide’s second album as Lust for Youth, following hot on the heels of last year’s Growing Se... Read more »| 02 Jul 2013
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Reviews
Gauntlet Hair – Stills
Gunning for nostalgia, Andy R and Craig Nice reunite for Gauntlet Hair’s second LP Stills. Inspired by the dark angst of favourite childhood bands... Read more »| 02 Jul 2013 -
Interviews
Hope For Men Below: Adam Stafford in interview
No stranger to these pages, Adam Stafford is a multi-talented filmmaker who has won numerous awards for his pictures of industrial life in Scotland's central belt. Now he's ready for his equally dynamic music to enter the cultural fast lane Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
NewsThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 28 June
In our weekly news roundup, we take a look at Jim Carrey's about-face over Kick-Ass 2; marvel at new music by the Pixies, Franz Ferdinand and David Lynch; cop El-P and Killer Mike's Run The Jewels; and preview Glasgow's Music Language Festival Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
Live Music
Jagwar Ma @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 20 Jun
Promoting their debut album Howlin, Jagwar Ma – Gabriel Winterfield, Jack Freeman and Jono Ma – assume their appropriate positions in f... Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
Live Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – July 2013
It's festival season, but there are plenty of bands still plugging away in the Northwest, including garage rockers Sic Alps, New York duo MS MR and the not to be missed dream-pop of Youth Lagoon Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
Reviews
Kanye West – Yeezus
Already this year's most talked-about album, Kanye West's Yeezus came with a rash of promises and boasts from the rapper – as usual, he was going ... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
Reviews
Fists – Phantasm
Phantasm won’t be lauded for its originality, channelling as it does a scrappy fuzz-pop sound that’s grown endlessly familiar: a garage-rock... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
Live Music
Gig Highlights – July 2013
As festival madness descends, we present some picks from T in the Park, Wickerman and Kelburn Garden Party, plus very special gigs from Mogwai, Adam Stafford, Ghostpoet, My Jerusalem, Stefan Blomeier and many more Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
Reviews
Thundercat – Apocalypse
A funky lovechild of Prince, Frank Zappa, Herbie Hancock and Flying Lotus (the latter incidentally co-produces this album), Thundercat, aka multi-instrumenta... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013