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 MusicNadia Reid @ Portico Library, Manchester, 3 June
Tech gremlins threaten to unseat Nadia Reid just minutes into her Manchester debut but she’s entirely unfazed. While others examine leads and connectio... Read more »| 08 Jun 2016 -
InterviewsDe La Soul's Posdnuos unveils And the Anonymous Nobody
Before their whistle-stop UK tour this month, De La Soul's Posdnuos reminisces on discovering rap in his youth, the secret to the group’s endurance and Kickstarting their first full album since 2004. Read more »| 07 Jun 2016 -
InterviewsEvolve or Die: Parquet Courts interviewed
After ambitious experiments and "vitriolic" reviews, Parquet Courts aren't about your approval. Austin Brown tells The Skinny about the band's push for progress. Read more »| 06 Jun 2016 -
Live MusicDown the Front: Bruce Springsteen returns to Hampden
Under a blistering sun, The Boss took the Hampden hordes on a characteristically epic nostalgia tour of his 1980 blue collar rock opus The River this pa... Read more »| 03 Jun 2016 -
Interviews
Raised by Wolves: Introducing Kaspar Hauser
When is a goth band not a goth band? We meet Glasgow’s Kaspar Hauser in an attempt to find out. Read more »| 03 Jun 2016 -
Playlists
Kindness on Missy Elliott and Jay Sean
Before Kindness – aka producer, musician and collaborator extraordinaire Adam Bainbridge – returns to the UK for a string of DJ dates, he hits shuffle on his arsenal and talks us through the first ten tracks, Missy Elliott trilogy and all. Read more »| 03 Jun 2016
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News
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds resurface with Skeleton Tree
Last seen with 2013's majestic Push the Sky Away and subsequent documentary 20,000 Days on Earth, Aussie legends Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will releas... Read more »| 02 Jun 2016 -
Festivals
XpoNorth: Lional on swapping Inverness for LA
Lional recently left the Highland capital to play shows in the Californian sunshine. But how did they manage it? By making their name at XPo North, of course Read more »| 02 Jun 2016 -
InterviewsRecall of the Wild: Wolf Parade return
As Wolf Parade return from hiatus with a new EP and their first live shows in five years, Dan Boeckner gives us the lowdown on reunions, ghost-hunting and im... Read more »| 02 Jun 2016 -
Reviews
The Mystery Lights – The Mystery Lights
Positives: expertly played, genuinely soulful and more grooves than Sandanista! on vinyl. Negatives: we've been here before. And haven’t we just? ... Read more »| 02 Jun 2016 -
News
SAY Award 2016: A guide to the longlist
A victor for the 2016 Scottish Album of the Year Award will be announced in Paisley on 29 June. But before that, the longlist of 20 albums must be whittled down to 10 – and you can play your part. We cast an ear over the hopefuls Read more »| 02 Jun 2016 -
Clubs
Guest Selector: François K
DJ, producer, engineer and all-round studio wizard François Kevorkian offers a tantalising glimpse into his innermost musical joys. Read more »| 02 Jun 2016 -
Reviews
DJ Shadow – The Mountain Will Fall
"The same way I was trying to push the boundaries then, I'm trying to push my own boundaries now." No joke; two decades on from the immortal Endtroducing, Jo... Read more »| 02 Jun 2016 -
Festivals
The new talent at this year's Africa Oyé festival
The UK's biggest free festival of African music and culture, Africa Oyé, returns to Sefton Park this June. Artistic director Paul Duhaney tells us mor... Read more »| 01 Jun 2016 -
Interviews
All The Right Moves: Kate Jackson interviewed
Nearly a decade after The Long Blondes split, Kate Jackson's solo debut is an accomplished and ambitious furthering of her artistic vision. She tells us why the time was right to start making music again Read more »| 01 Jun 2016