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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ReviewsThundercat – 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 -
Live MusicO2 Love Music Column – July 2013
Aside from enigmatic front-man Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins are near unrecognisable as a line-up for those who first came to the band via th... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
ReviewsDaughn Gibson – Me Moan
On All Hell, Daughn Gibson triple-filters country ballads through crackles, loops and warped samples, teasing out an atmospheric production closer to the lik... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
ReviewsBenin City – Fires in the Park
Like M.I.A.’s Kala or The Bug’s London Zoo, it’s hard to imagine Fires in the Park’s particular blend of global i... Read more »| 26 Jun 2013 -
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Adam Stafford – Imaginary Walls Collapse
This is an album that very nearly never saw the light of day; Adam Stafford, former Y’all Is Fantasy Island main man and a respected solo artist and fi... Read more »| 26 Jun 2013 -
ReviewsBell X1 – Chop Chop
For their sixth album, Bell X1 shelve the Talking Heads-aping pop strut and glitchy electronics that flavoured predecessors Blue Lights on the Highway&n... Read more »| 26 Jun 2013
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Six. By Seven – Love and Peace and Sympathy
Following a brief spell in the limelight in the late 90s with their debut The Things We Make – a record which sat somewhere between Britpop&r... Read more »| 26 Jun 2013 -
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Strangers Family Band – Strangers Family Band
Back in 2010, Floridian psychedelic rock quartet Strangers Family Band promised their debut would be a sixteen track concept album in the Sgt Peppers/Vi... Read more »| 26 Jun 2013 -
Live Music
Africa 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 -
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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 -
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Teho 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 -
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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 Music
Bass 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 -
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