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 MusicSelector Dub Narcotic @ Nexus, Manchester, 21 Oct
2016's been a right old twat of a year, hasn't it? Just ask Calvin Johnson. In February of this year, it was reported that K Records, the legendary... Read more »| 28 Oct 2016 -
ReviewsLambchop – FLOTUS
Kurt Wagner goes full Bon Iver on Lambchop's most adventurous record to date. Read more »| 28 Oct 2016 -
ReviewsXAM Duo – XAM Duo
XAM Duo is the self-titled debut from Hookworms' Matthew Benn and Deadwall’s Christopher Duffin. Comprising six tracks in total, it’s a collectio... Read more »| 28 Oct 2016 -
Interviews
Tropical Punch: Introducing Indigo Velvet
We chat with upcoming Edinburgh-based four piece about their genre-defying sound, upcoming tour, and their ambitions Read more »| 28 Oct 2016 -
Reviews
Honeyblood – Babes Never Die
Glasgow’s Honeyblood, aka Stina Tweeddale and Cat Myers, are back with sophomore album Babes Never Die, a follow-up to 2014’s self-titled debut. ... Read more »| 28 Oct 2016 -
Live Music
Jamie T @ Apollo, Manchester, 20 Oct
Wimbledon's premier troubadour turns in an energetic set that forgoes his new ideas Read more »| 28 Oct 2016
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Reviews
Kristin Hersh – Wyatt at the Coyote Palace
‘I’m doubled over on my knees again,’ sings Kristin Hersh on her tenth solo album. ‘Only way I know how to be.’ Of course, the ... Read more »| 28 Oct 2016 -
Live Music
Scottish Gig Highlights: 27-31 Oct
It’s not all about Halloween this weekend, so don’t be scared to leave your house for something other than a fancy dress party, or to go trick or... Read more »| 27 Oct 2016 -
Festivals
A Carefully Planned Festival 6: Review
Carefully Planned cast a bewitching spell across Manchester's Northern Quarter with its most ambitiously sprawling line-up yet – a DIY festival unlike any other. Read more »| 27 Oct 2016 -
Live Music
Sleaford Mods @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 19 Oct
Sleaford Mods may be the most unlikely stadium act of this or any era. The Nottingham-based duo are not yet at the stage of booking Hampden or Wembley for th... Read more »| 27 Oct 2016 -
InterviewsStrange Brew: Halloween with The Wytches
We chat to The Wytches drummer Gianni Honey about White Russians, champagne, caviar... and the making of their new LP All Your Happy Life “We’re... Read more »| 27 Oct 2016 -
Festivals
Celtic Connections 2017: First shows announced
The first acts for the 2017 Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow have been announced Read more »| 27 Oct 2016 -
Live Music
Live music in Liverpool this week: 26-31 Oct
Music Week provides the biggest thrills in Liverpool this week, but elsewhere there's psych-pop magnificence and chiptune Halloween bashes on offer Read more »| 26 Oct 2016 -
Live Music
Live music in Manchester this week: 26 Oct-2 Nov
High octane stuff from the likes of Cabbage and Fucked Up this week, before Halloween draws closer with a live-scored screening of Psycho and a gig from the master of horror himself, John Carpenter. Read more »| 26 Oct 2016 -
Opinion
Dead Rising: Bart Owl on Our Ladies of Sorrow
Ahead of their Our Ladies of Sorrow show to kick off Summerhall's Festival of Death, Bart Owl discusses the inspiration behind the spooky Eagleowl side-project and presents a freaky, creepy Day of the Dead mix Read more »| 26 Oct 2016