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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InterviewsFuzzkill Records on Freakender 2016
Ross Keppie started Fuzzkill Records while living in Shetland in 2013. Three years and a move to Glasgow later, it's one of the hottest DIY labels in the country and co-running Freakender – a three-day festival of psych and garage rock Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
Live MusicSam Beam & Jesca Hoop @ RNCM, 31 Aug
Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop take to the stage of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester as if burnished with gold. It might be a subtle effect achieve... Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
ArtCCA Highlights - Sep/Oct 2016
We’ve a couple of months of dissidence coming up at Glasgow’s CCA in September and October, with artists, musicians, indie labels and festival curators who are kicking back against the tentacles of capitalism and social inequality in our society Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
InterviewsEndless Adolescence: Teenage Fanclub vs TeenCanteen
Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub and Carla J Easton from TeenCanteen quiz each other on the power of Glaswegian harmonies Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
Reviews
Teenage Fanclub – Here
For a while it looked like we’d heard the last of Teenage Fanclub. Shadows, released at the onset of their third decade together, found the band 'waiti... Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
Reviews
TeenCanteen – Say It All With A Kiss
Never ones to deny us of a singalong chorus, TeenCanteen’s debut album Say It All with a Kiss is packed full of infectiously catchy, sing-into-you... Read more »| 05 Sep 2016
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Books
Hollie McNish's Charlotte Church factfile
Ahead of Charlotte Church's Late Night Pop Dungeon headlining this month's Neu! Reekie! Celts night at the National Museum of Scotland, poet Hollie McNi... Read more »| 02 Sep 2016 -
PlaylistsSubcity Radio: September Selectors
University of Glasgow's Subcity DJs pick three tracks from Glasgow-based bands and producers to see in the new semester National Handbag – Leath... Read more »| 02 Sep 2016 -
Reviews
The Wedding Present – Going, Going...
Whether they’re drafting in Steve Albini to produce, cranking out a new single every month or releasing an album in which every song has an accompanyin... Read more »| 02 Sep 2016 -
Reviews
Shield Patterns – Mirror Breathing
'Touch me lightly, share / How you hate me and all the ways you care,' sings Claire Brentnall on Dusk, the opening track on the follow-up to Shield Patterns'... Read more »| 02 Sep 2016 -
Interviews
Rewilding: The Pictish Trail interviewed
The Skinny visits Johnny Lynch on the Isle of Eigg to explore how The Pictish Trail turned turmoil and anger in to Future Echoes Read more »| 02 Sep 2016 -
Things To Do
Live music in Manchester this week: 1-8 Sep
This week local rockers Larkins celebrate a new single and psych/fuzz collective Freakout Honey headline at Night & Day Cafe, while hip hop titans Pete Rock and CL Smooth head to Mantra Live. Read more »| 01 Sep 2016 -
Interviews
Fantastic Fur: Super Furry Animals interviewed
Since they got back together in 2015, Super Furry Animals have been on a roll. Now, as the Welsh heroes prepare to headline Liverpool Psych Fest, guitarist Huw Bunford looks back on their formative years and a glorious summer for Gareth Bale Read more »| 01 Sep 2016 -
Things To Do
Live music in Liverpool this week: 31 Aug-6 Sep
This week it's all about spoken word rock from Listener and the latest experimentation from Animal Collective, along with upcoming live dates to coincide with new albums from Hooton Tennis Club and Honeyblood Read more »| 01 Sep 2016 -
Reviews
Angel Olsen – My Woman
'Is it me you're thinking of, when you're thinking of me?' This time around, Angel Olsen asks the big questions and supplies punchlines to match: 'Or is it y... Read more »| 01 Sep 2016