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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New MusicAstronomyy – Everythin' on my Mind: Track Premiere
Listen to a brand new track from the Worcestershire-based producer's brand new EP Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
ReviewsTsutro – Tsutro
On the one hand, Jacob Montague is the canonical hipster – plaid shirts, strong beard, enjoys “San Francisco’s finest iced coffee” on... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
New MusicCologne Tape – Welt 8: Track Premiere
Listen to Welt 8 by Cologne Tape featuring drums from Battles' John Stanier Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
Live Music
Live music in Manchester this week: 15-21 Feb
Brooklyn noisemakers Sleigh Bells, local trio Cassia, Northern Soul icon Betty Harris and even wannabe moonlight fighter LeAnn Rimes all feature on Manchester's stages this week. It's an eclectic week, kids Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
Live Music
Cabbage @ Gorilla, Manchester, 11 Feb
As Mossley outfit Cabbage tear through a solid 50 minutes of immersive post-punk motifs and unashamedly abrasive left-wing politics, you get t... Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
Reviews
The Feelies – In Between
Having recently celebrated their fortieth birthday, New Jersey’s The Feelies know better than most how to burn slowly. More placid ripples than Crazy R... Read more »| 15 Feb 2017
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FestivalsHoneyblood and Pinegrove to play Dot to Dot 2017
The tri-city festival unveils its first wave of acts, including Sundara Karma, Amber Run, The Growlers, Louis Berry, Cherry Glazerr, Tom Grennan and Picture This Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
2manyDJs & Cat Power for Eden Festival 2017
Eden Festival have revealed their final headliners for this year's festival in June A solo set from Cat Power's Chan Marshall and a DJ spot from Soulwax und... Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
Enter David Lynch's Factory Photography with HEXA
A GFF17 highlight looks to be HEXA's sonic response to David Lynch's Factory Photographs, the legendary director's collection of black-and-white st... Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
Live Music
Live music in Liverpool this week: 15-21 Feb
Hotly-tipped R'n'B stars, country singers on the rise and a whole load of pop-punk: the best gigs in Liverpool over the next seven days Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
Reviews
The Pigeon Detectives – Broken Glances
Say what you want about The Pigeon Detectives but they’ve stuck at it. The Leeds five-piece’s career after their platinum selling debut album Wai... Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
Live Music
Julian Cope @ Gorilla, Manchester, 10 Feb
Taking to Gorilla’s stage – itself formed from rags and patches of what look like safety deposit boxes – like the sole survivor of a n... Read more »| 14 Feb 2017 -
Live Music
Andy Shauf @ Gullivers, Manchester, 9 Feb
Like his music, Andy Shauf’s entrance is endearingly understated. As the band politely shuffle their way through the crowd and onto the stage, pre-show... Read more »| 14 Feb 2017 -
Reviews
Crystal Fairy – Crystal Fairy
“Written and recorded over pho while watching cannibal movies” is how Omar Rodriguez-Lopez explains supergroup Crystal Fairy’s debut LP, an... Read more »| 14 Feb 2017 -
Reviews
Undo – Undo
Formed in 2016, Glasgow four-piece Undo make quite the racket. In point of fact, on first listen, they probably sound as noisy and ramshackle as any rocking ... Read more »| 14 Feb 2017