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.
-
News
Jay Baruchel to star in Idlewild video for ‘Every Little Means Trust’
Canadian actor Jay Baruchel, of How to Train Your Dragon and This is the End fame, is to star in the video for Idlewild’s new single Every Little Means... Read more »| 16 Mar 2015 -
News
Duke Garwood unveils 'Disco Lights' video
Following the release of his critically-acclaimed fifth album Heavy Love, London-based bluesman Duke Garwood unveils the video for his new single Disco ... Read more »| 16 Mar 2015 -
Opinion
Under the Influence: Warpaint's Jenny Lee Lindberg
From Aphex to Siouxsie, Warpaint’s bass player goes rummaging through the record bag and tells a potted history of her musical education Read more »| 16 Mar 2015 -
Interviews
Loud and Clear: Lightning Bolt's Brian Gibson on Fantasy Empire
Rhode Island's noisiest pair return with the relative polish of new album Fantasy Empire – if only bassist Brian Gibson could stop apologising Read more »| 13 Mar 2015 -
Live Music
Neon Waltz / The Tripps @ Nice'n'Sleazy, Glasgow, 4 March
We once talked about Mod revivals as if the scene occasionally vanished from view, only to return at a later date. But Glasgow has never lost its love of Fre... Read more »| 12 Mar 2015 -
News
Young Fathers share new track 'Shame'
Edinburgh trio Young Fathers have shared Shame, the second track from their upcoming album White Men Are Black Men Too due for release next month. Allo... Read more »| 12 Mar 2015
-
News
Northwest Music News — 12 March | Red Deer Clubs Turns 10, New Hartheim + More
Red Deer Club Turns 10 Starting out as a semi-regular live evening in the upstairs of intimate Withington vegetarian cafe-cum-live space Fuel, Red Deer Club... Read more »| 12 Mar 2015 -
Festivals
Glad Café and GoldFlakePaint team up for Sucker Punch festival
This May sees Glasgow venue The Glad Café join forces with music webzine GoldFlakePaint to present the inaugural Sucker Punch mini weekender... Read more »| 12 Mar 2015 -
News
Warpaint release new track I’ll Start Believing
LA quartet Warpaint have shared brand new track I'll Start Believing, released alongside their recent studio version of live favourite No Way Out. The new m... Read more »| 12 Mar 2015 -
News
Glasgow duo Happy Meals unveil 'Altered Images' video, plot European tour
Glasgow synthpop duo Happy Meals have unveiled a new video for album cut Altered Images. Taken from last year's acclaimed debut Apéro, on N... Read more »| 10 Mar 2015 -
News
Aidan Moffat and Bill Wells unveil new album with online party (here's your invite...)
Aidan Moffat and Bill Wells will celebrate the release of their new album with an 'online party' on Thursday 12 March. With new offering The Most Impor... Read more »| 10 Mar 2015 -
News
FFS – Franz Ferdinand and Sparks form new band, plot summer tour
Glasgow art rockers Franz Ferdinand have joined forces with LA new wavers Sparks for a new project. Taking the name FFS, the transatlantic sextet will u... Read more »| 10 Mar 2015 -
Live Music
FutureEverything: Alec Empire/Tristan Perich @ RNCM, Manchester, 27 February
As the RNCM’s concert hall is plunged into darkness, it would seem that Tristan Perich – presenting new work Noise Patterns – really w... Read more »| 10 Mar 2015 -
Live Music
FutureEverything: Koreless @ Royal Northern College of Music, 25 February
Even for a producer who revels in fracturing recognisable electronic tropes into loosely connected flotsam, the addition of both Daedelus-collaborating visua... Read more »| 10 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
LoneLady – Hinterland
Writing his Manifesto of Futurism in 1909, Fillipo Tomasso Marinetti stated his desire to sing the virtues of railway stations, factories, bridges, and an un... Read more »| 10 Mar 2015