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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FestivalsLiverpool Sound City 2015, 22-24 May
This year, Liverpool Sound City has moved away from the heart of the city down to the cramped Bramley-Moore Dock, where the ambiance is more forklift trucks and swinging cranes than cultural hub. Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
Live MusicMew @ The Ritz, Manchester, 19 May
If anything's to brighten this sticky city night, Mew should manage it. Marking 20 years since they got together at school, the recent release of their sixth... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
Live MusicScottish Gig Highlights – June 2015
June arrives and with it comes the promise of a marginal amount of sun, the official beginning of festival season and a helluva lot of potentially outstandin... Read more »| 29 May 2015 -
Reviews
Sun Kil Moon – Universal Themes
By the end of The Possum, the first track on Sun Kil Moon’s follow-up to last year’s ultra-acclaimed Benji, the universal themes that mainman Mar... Read more »| 29 May 2015 -
ReviewsMajor Lazer – Peace Is The Mission
Self-professed ‘culture mash-up’ and dancehall-dork Diplo side-project Major Lazer broadcast their third LP Peace Is The Mission, a now-trademark... Read more »| 29 May 2015 -
Festivals
T Break line-up for T in the Park 2015 announced
The sixteen bands set to play the T Break unsigned bands’ stage at this year's T in the Park festival at Strathallan Castle have been confirmed. ... Read more »| 29 May 2015
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Reviews
Northern American – Modern Phenomena
A band with the audacity to call itself Northern American either has something vital to say or nothing at all, and there should be little dispute about which... Read more »| 29 May 2015 -
Reviews
Leftfield – Alternative Light Source
Ah, the 1990s. One long Danny Boyle soundtrack of a decade. And while legitimate classics such as Leftism and Rhythm and Stealth helped to document our comin... Read more »| 29 May 2015 -
News
Scottish Album of the Year 2015 shortlist announced
The ten-strong shortlist for the 2015 Scottish Album of the Year – aka the SAY Award – has been announced. This year's shortlist is an eclectic ... Read more »| 28 May 2015 -
ReviewsOutblinker – Pink / Blue
It's hardly surprising that Outblinker's membership – the brothers Graham and Jason of Young Philadelphia, local producer Luigi Pasquini of noise ... Read more »| 28 May 2015 -
Reviews
Jenny Hval – Apocalypse, Girl
"Think big girl, think big like a King," begins Jenny Hval on her first album for Sacred Bones – one which journeys from the Norwegian artist's be... Read more »| 28 May 2015 -
Reviews
Neil Young – The Monsanto Years
There are fewer fish swimming in our oceans, and Neil Young ain't happy. Read more »| 28 May 2015 -
Reviews
FFS – FFS
Some musical partnerships are just meant to be. Take Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks, making colourful and unorthodox pop together for fast approaching half a... Read more »| 28 May 2015 -
Reviews
Girlpool – Before the World Was Big
The L.A. duo's debut full-length is a sparse, palpably emotional affair Read more »| 28 May 2015 -
Reviews
Jaakko Eino Kalevi – Jaakko Eino Kalevi
Kalevi’s new self-titled album is a comprehensive introduction to an artist surely destined to become one of synth-pop’s quirky new posterboys &n... Read more »| 27 May 2015