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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ReviewsBring Me the Horizon – Amo
After ditching the metalcore almost completely on 2015’s critically acclaimed That’s the Spirit, Sheffield’s genre-smashing trailblazers take it a step further on their most ambitious project to date Read more »| 29 Jan 2019 -
ReviewsSister John – Sister John
Sister John's eponymous sophomore record sees the Glasgow four-piece pushing doors with a new confidence Read more »| 29 Jan 2019 -
ReviewsSwervedriver – Future Ruins
Bold and ambitious, Swervedriver's sixth studio album Future Ruins is deliriously difficult to place, and all the more exciting for it Read more »| 25 Jan 2019 -
ReviewsBlood Red Shoes – Get Tragic
Get Tragic is a powerful album, raw in its unflinching honesty, experimental in its lyrical and instrumental balances, and deeply moving Read more »| 25 Jan 2019 -
Interviews
John Grant on Love is Magic and art in music
Following the release of his fourth solo album, Love is Magic, we talk art and music with John Grant Read more »| 25 Jan 2019 -
InterviewsAndrew Wasylyk on The Paralian
We talk to Andrew Wasylyk about his ambitious third solo-record The Paralian and his launch shows in Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow Read more »| 25 Jan 2019
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Live MusicThe Streets @ O2 Academy, Glasgow, 21 Jan
The once-familiar voice of adolescent Britain doesn't disappoint with a high-energy rollercoaster of hits at Glasgow's O2 Academy Read more »| 24 Jan 2019 -
Playlists
Behind Bossy Love's Favourite 00s Jams
After releasing their debut EP, Whiplash, Bossy Love's John Baillie Jnr tells us all about the Glasgow duo's favourite era of pop music and all the sampling goodness that came with it Read more »| 24 Jan 2019 -
Reviews
Julia Kent – Temporal
Julia Kent's sixth solo effort is a stunningly meditative and expertly controlled album, making for a unique sonic experience Read more »| 24 Jan 2019 -
Reviews
Tim Presley’s White Fence – I Have to Feed Larry’s Hawk
Tim Presley's White Fence project takes on a new, more ambient and impressionistic – though not wholly unfamiliar – direction, spurred on by a move back to San Francisco and the spectre of addiction Read more »| 24 Jan 2019 -
Live MusicFucked Up @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 20 Jan
Off the back of releasing Dose Your Dreams last year, Fucked Up deliver one of the most diverse sets of their career tonight as they move beyond the blueprint of bruising hardcore punk Read more »| 24 Jan 2019 -
Live MusicAdrianne Lenker @ YES, Manchester, 17 Jan
Big Thief's frontwoman makes a compelling case for the position of her generation's most exciting songwriter in Manchester Read more »| 24 Jan 2019 -
ReviewsBetter Oblivion Community Center – Better Oblivion Community Center
Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst's surprise album as Better Oblivion Community Center showcases the complementary talents of two of America's most talented songwriters Read more »| 24 Jan 2019 -
ReviewsDream Nails – Take Up Space (Unplugged)
Unplugged, Dream Nails fly the flag for female rhetoric and unearth a steadfast sisterhood at the heart of their punk rock ferocity Read more »| 23 Jan 2019 -
New Music
Andrew Wasylyk – Mariner's Hymn (Video Premiere)
Watch the video for Mariner's Hymn taken from Andrew Wasylyk's upcoming new album, The Paralian Read more »| 23 Jan 2019