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 MusicLive music in Liverpool this week: 25-30 Aug
Stuck for live music this bank holiday? From rap superstars to punk weekenders, it's another busy week on Liverpool's ever-hectic gig circuit Read more »| 23 Aug 2016 -
Things To DoLive music in Manchester this week: 25-30 Aug
This week it's all about The Garden at Fallow Cafe, Listener at Gullivers, a curious Nun's Court Festival down at the Old Pint Pot and much, much more. Read more »| 23 Aug 2016 -
Live MusicBroken Records @ Summerhall, 20 Aug
Like returning comets, Broken Records shows don’t come around so often these days. Perhaps it’s the lesser-spotted nature of their live appe... Read more »| 23 Aug 2016 -
Interviews
Separation Anxiety: Preoccupations on their rebirth
Preoccupations, the Canadian post-punk quartet formerly known as Viet Cong talk reinvention, forward movement and personal politics Read more »| 23 Aug 2016 -
OpinionFrank Ocean, Kanye West and the art of the surprise album
We want new music, and we want it now! But what's worse? Frank Ocean's ridiculously postponed record drop, or Kanye's confusion over The Life of Pablo? ... Read more »| 22 Aug 2016 -
Festivals
HOPELESSNESS @ The Playhouse, 17 Aug
There's a deep rumbling shaking the Playhouse's listed foundations. The house lights fade, and a forest of dry ice clears to reveal a cinema-sized screen dom... Read more »| 22 Aug 2016
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Reviews
Cowtown - Paranormal Romance
'Keep it to the point, you gotta keep it to the point,' Cowtown advise – vigorously – on appropriately titled track Motivational S... Read more »| 19 Aug 2016 -
Festivals
Young Fathers @ The Hub, 14 August
Call it nepotism, call it bias, call it a home-town advantage... call it what you will, but let's be honest. For the 400-strong, sold-out crowd packed into T... Read more »| 19 Aug 2016 -
News
Video Premiere: 131 Northside - HORIZONS
Watch 131 Northside's moody, self-produced video for single HORIZONS, taken from debut EP Digital Memories 131 Northside – aka King Wavey and WTKAKACB... Read more »| 19 Aug 2016 -
News
Track Premiere: Oh Well, Goodbye – Clandestine
Take a first listen to Clandestine by Oh Well, Goodbye, and read their track-by-track guide to new EP Swoon Comprising longstanding members of Liverpool's o... Read more »| 18 Aug 2016 -
Interviews
An Anxious Energy: Sweaty Palms interviewed
Sweaty Palms are an energetic four-piece garage rock band from the Southside of Glasgow who admit their music is inspired by drug-fuelled anxiety. They open up on fighting sexism, hating conservative bands and channeling negative energy Read more »| 18 Aug 2016 -
Live Music
Billy Bragg and Joe Henry @ Summerhall, 15 Aug
When Tory premiership, austerity and xenophobia are the order of the day, artists like Billy Bragg have never been more relevant, or indeed, needed. The left... Read more »| 18 Aug 2016 -
Music Videos
Video Premiere: TeenCanteen – How We Met (Cherry Pie)
Watch TeenCanteen's brand new, very glittery video for How We Met (Cherry Pie) from their debut album, Say It All With A Kiss Bunting, sequins and a bu... Read more »| 17 Aug 2016 -
Festivals
Red Bull Music Academy announce UK tour
Red Bull Music Academy UK tour will visit Liverpool, Leeds, Glasgow and London this October, featuring Jamie Woon Moodymann, Young Fathers, DJ Harvey and more Read more »| 17 Aug 2016 -
Live Music
Live music in Liverpool this week: 17-23 Aug
There's antifolk, roots reggae and grindcore galore this week in our Liverpool gig guide... Read more »| 17 Aug 2016