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.
-
ReviewsRon Gallo – Heavy Meta
Ron Gallo is fed up; with himself, with other people, with rock music, with technology, with junk food – the whole stinking business. He opens his solo... Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
OpinionManchester's best record shops
From Northern Soul and The Smiths through to every sub-genre of dance music, there's no city better suited to an army of great record shops than Manchester. Here's our guide to where to pick up current releases, old classics and rarities Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
FilmDoc’n Roll Film Festival returns to Liverpool
Sleaford Mods, The Orb, The Melvins, Gregory Porter, Norwegian House, and Sparklehorse all feature in the three day festival Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Live MusicThe Pigeon Detectives @ Electric Circus, Edinburgh, 4 Mar
For many 20-somethings, The Pigeon Detectives will bring back fond memories of a golden age of indie, the ups and downs of which are still very visible today... Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Festivals
Where Are We Now festival: What is counterculture?
Provocative collective Neu! Reekie! present Where Are We Now?, a festival of politically minded performance, at Hull UK City of Culture 2017. In this era of global turbulence, The Skinny asks organiser Kevin Williamson: Where is the counterculture now? Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Videos
Letting Up Despite Great Faults – Pageantry: Video Premiere
Watch the new video from Mike Lee's dreampop outfit, taken from their new Alexander Devotion EP Welcome back to one of the finest cult acts that the dreampo... Read more »| 07 Mar 2017
-
Live MusicThurston Moore @ Islington Mill, Salford, 3 Mar
Still is an appropriate name for tonight’s opening act. The solo project of Blacklung’s James Moffat, the aptness comes not from his on-stag... Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Live Music
De La Soul @ Albert Hall, Manchester, 2 Mar
Manchester’s Albert Hall is the perfect venue for De La Soul. Much like the renovated Methodist chapel – complete with stained glass windows and ... Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Reviews
The Shins – Heartworms
'It’s the means to a terrible end,' James Mercer sings about halfway through Name For You, the first track on the new album by The Shins – and he... Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
News
Bill Drummond of The KLF set for Neu! Reekie!
Legendary artist, musician and all-round provocateur Bill Drummond is the first name revealed for the latest edition of avant-garde spoken word and multi-art... Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Festivals
Safe as Milk reveal DJ programme
The programme has also been announced for the festival's on-site pub, featuring Richard Dawson, Jeff Mills and karaoke inspired by Mark E Smith and The Fall Read more »| 06 Mar 2017 -
Live Music
Scottish Gigs of the Week: 7-13 March
Live music in Glasgow The Comet is Coming @ O2 ABC, 8 Mar Experimental cosmic funk inspired by everything from Sun Ra and Funkadelic to th... Read more »| 06 Mar 2017 -
Reviews
Nathan Fake – Providence
After a two year music-making hiatus, Nathan Fake returns with Providence, an album which sees him take his music in a new, and wholly unanticipated, directi... Read more »| 06 Mar 2017 -
Live Music
Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation @ Soup Kitchen, 1 Mar
Currently touring their second album Mirage, Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation are gaining a following on the back of their hypnotic psychedelia, now r... Read more »| 06 Mar 2017 -
Reviews
sir Was – Digging A Tunnel
Previously a professional jazz saxophonist, sir Was has travelled the world performing in several ensembles, picking up a range of musical influences as he w... Read more »| 06 Mar 2017