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 MusicThe Garden @ Electric Circus, 24 Aug
Somewhere beneath the paper-white face paint, red lipstick and dress shirts are Californian twins Wyatt and Fletcher Shears. The Garden remain mysteriou... Read more »| 30 Aug 2016 -
NewsRandolph's Leap announce Glasgow all-dayer line-up
Glasgow indie-pop outfit Randolph's Leap have revealed the line-up for their latest I Can't Dance To This Music all-dayer in Glasgow this October The fourth... Read more »| 30 Aug 2016 -
Live MusicThe Parrots @ The Magnet, 27 Aug
The Parrots' trademark rock posturing more than matches the red velvet-bedecked environs at underground dive bar The Magnet. Celebrating the launch of t... Read more »| 30 Aug 2016 -
Reviews
Frank Ocean - Blonde
"We gon' see the future first / We'll let you guys prophesy," Frank Ocean sings on opener Nikes – and you believe him. Not least because the high, eeri... Read more »| 29 Aug 2016 -
Live MusicJulianna Barwick @ The Deaf Institute, 23 Aug
When The Deaf Institute has all its audience sitting down in chairs, you know you’re in for a dignified evening. That’s exactly what we can expec... Read more »| 29 Aug 2016 -
Playlists
Frankie Cosmos' BandCamp treasure chest
We pick out five of our favourite tracks from the extensive Frankie Cosmos BandCamp back catalogue... Read more »| 29 Aug 2016
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Interviews
Universal Joys: Frankie Cosmos Interviewed
Greta Kline tells it like it is: the native New Yorker behind Frankie Cosmos conjures universal truths from minute details of daily life Read more »| 29 Aug 2016 -
News
Neu! Reekie! Celts: Full line-up revealed
The full line-up for Neu! Reekie!'s late night party at the National Museum of Scotland has been unveiled. Welsh soprano turned pop activist Charlotte Churc... Read more »| 29 Aug 2016 -
InterviewsCome Together – Shield Patterns Interviewed
With Mirror Breathing, the Manchester-based duo enrich their electro template with fuller arrangements and an intimate, affecting narrative. They talk us though the creative development behind their second album Read more »| 26 Aug 2016 -
Opinion
Liverpool and Psychedelia: A Brief History
The Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia returns to expand our consciousness once more this September. We look at the city's long relationship with this most far-reaching of musical explorations Read more »| 26 Aug 2016 -
Intersections
Carly Rae Jepsen and the Queerification of Pop
We've come a long, long way since Katy Perry's accidental girl-kissing... Read more »| 26 Aug 2016 -
Live Music
Green Man 2016: Festival Review
We brave the downpour in the Brecon Beacons to take in the splendour of another triumphant Green Man... Read more »| 25 Aug 2016 -
Music Videos
Watch Angel Olsen's new video for Sister
Angel Olsen reveals a dramatic, dusty video for Sister, ahead of new album MY WOMAN Read more »| 24 Aug 2016 -
Interviews
Bovine Intervention: An Interview with Cowtown
One of the many jewels of Leeds' diverse DIY scene, post-punk idiosyncrats Cowtown return with new album Paranormal Romance. Here they share their thoughts o... Read more »| 24 Aug 2016 -
Live Music
Sigur Rós @ Edinburgh Playhouse, 15 August
As ever with Sigur Rós, the group's ethereal performances are as much about the visual as the aural. The gilt and plush scarlet surrounds of Edinburgh... Read more »| 23 Aug 2016