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 MusicCloud Nothings @ Stereo, Glasgow, 17 Mar
It’s a Friday night and the walk to Renfield Lane sees Glasgow’s city centre bobbing with Guinness-branded top hats. Pints have been flowing sinc... Read more »| 21 Mar 2017 -
Live MusicScottish Gigs of the Week: 21-27 Mar
Glasgow welcomes gig upon gig for the 6 Music Fringe, while over in Edinburgh highlights include Grandaddy, Onra and IDLES Read more »| 21 Mar 2017 -
Live Music
Live music in Manchester this week: 22-28 Mar
From locals Shaking Chains to international Afrobeat hero Tony Allen, this week's gig calendar in Manchester springs into life with summat for everyone Read more »| 21 Mar 2017 -
ReviewsPINS – Bad Thing EP
Manchester five-piece PINS have been sharpening their rock nous for some time now, impressing with their previous two records Girls Like Us and Wild Nights. ... Read more »| 21 Mar 2017 -
Things To DoThe Eclectica Experiment comes to Edinburgh
Fancy an evening that's just that little bit different? Look no further than The Eclectica Experiment. Taking place at The Caves in Edinburgh on 20 April, it... Read more »| 21 Mar 2017 -
Festivals
Loyle Carner, Andy Shauf added to Field Day 2017
John Cooper Clarke also joins the bill as another wave of acts is unveiled Read more »| 21 Mar 2017
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Live Music
Dutch Uncles @ The Dancehouse, Manchester, 15 Mar
Juxtapositions between performers and venue rarely come as stark and obvious as this: a band as sprightly as Dutch Uncles performing in the unassuming grande... Read more »| 20 Mar 2017 -
Reviews
Desperate Journalist – Grow Up
In a garden, a teenage Jo Bevan faces the camera. The dappled sunlight and party dress are immediately at odds with her band-to-be's brooding aesthetic. And ... Read more »| 20 Mar 2017 -
New Music
Micah P. Hinson – Everlasting Arms (Track Premiere)
Listen to a Micah P. Hinson track from his new split 12'' on Song, by Toad, out later this week Read more »| 20 Mar 2017 -
Reviews
Craig Finn – We All Want the Same Things
If with The Hold Steady, it felt like Craig Finn was writing the Great American Novel – a sprawling, intertwining narrative of familiar characters and ... Read more »| 20 Mar 2017 -
Reviews
Spiral Stairs – Doris and The Daggers
Lesser-spotted? The term doesn’t quite do justice to Scott Kannberg, who here emerges from hibernation for his first record in eight years. Last seen d... Read more »| 20 Mar 2017 -
Reviews
Johnny Flynn – Sillion
Johnny Flynn came out of the same West London new-folk set that gave us Laura Marling, Mumford & Sons, and Noah & The Whale, but unlike those three, ... Read more »| 20 Mar 2017 -
Opinion
Liverpool's best record shops
In Liverpool? Want records? You'll be needing to know where to go, then... Read more »| 20 Mar 2017 -
ReviewsSamantha Crain – You Had Me At Goodbye
Oklahoma-born singer-songwriter Samantha Crain’s fifth album You Had Me At Goodbye shows off her folk balladry and experimental spirit with a greater p... Read more »| 20 Mar 2017 -
Reviews
Tonstartssbandht – Sorcerer
With its three tracks spanning a mighty 34 minutes, Tonstartssbandht’s debut album is far from easy listening. Seasoned psych nerds may already recogni... Read more »| 20 Mar 2017