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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FestivalsDot to Dot festival, Manchester: the local acts
Dot to Dot announce the local talent playing at this year's festival. Read more »| 29 Apr 2016 -
ReviewsWhite Lung – Paradise
2014’s sterling Deep Fantasy saw White Lung thrashing away under a mushroom cloud of eardrum-rattling guitar effects – a triumphant honing of eve... Read more »| 29 Apr 2016 -
ReviewsOutblinker – The Remains of Water Peck EP
A three-track sneak peek of the album due out later in the year, the latest EP from the Glasgow five-piece balances precariously between the ecumenical and t... Read more »| 28 Apr 2016 -
ReviewsJC Flowers – Driving Excitement and the Pleasure of Ownership
Londoners JC Flowers are certainly full of ideas. Baudrillard is loftily cited on the press release, suggesting a knowing angle to their classicist psych-pop... Read more »| 27 Apr 2016 -
Reviews
Ghold – Pyr
OWCH. You know that feeling when someone repeatedly bashes your skull with a meat tenderiser until it caves and the bone splinters and the pain goes fuz... Read more »| 27 Apr 2016 -
Reviews
False Advertising – Brainless EP
Just a heads-up; you can disregard the Mancunian band's moniker and the EP's title. Over five tracks on Brainless, their follow-up to last year's stupid... Read more »| 27 Apr 2016
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Interviews
Composer-Curator: Neil Luck's Resonance FM show
A new radio show on Resonance FM, Drivetime Underground, presents experimental music in a commercial, 'magazine'-style format – aiming to subvert ... Read more »| 27 Apr 2016 -
Reviews
Yoni & Geti – Testarossa
In its original conception, Testarossa comprised the soundtrack to a script formulated by Why? mainman Yoni Wolf and fellow alt rapper Serengeti. E... Read more »| 26 Apr 2016 -
Reviews
We Are Scientists – Helter Seltzer
You’ve heard it before: indie band makes waves with intoxicating studio debut, and lives forever in its shadow. In the decade since the squeaky-clean n... Read more »| 26 Apr 2016 -
Live Music
Explosions in the Sky @ Glasgow Barrowlands, 19 April
Should they be responsible for some of the most soul-achingly beautiful music ever recorded – and from a post-rock perspective at least there’s a... Read more »| 26 Apr 2016 -
Videos
Video Premiere: Strange Collective – Heavy
Watch the video for Heavy, the blissed-out new single from Liverpool's latest cosmic explorers Strange Collective Read more »| 22 Apr 2016 -
News
Africa Oyé announce DJs for 2016 festival
Africa Oyé bring back DJ Edu and Esa Williams for the third year running Read more »| 22 Apr 2016 -
News
Prince found dead at 57
The Minneapolis musician is reported to have died at his Paisley Park recording studio and estate Read more »| 21 Apr 2016 -
Reviews
Lush – Blindspot EP
Twice as good as it needed to be, and a league beyond your worst fears, the Blind Spot EP shrugs aside two decades of inactivity with nary a glance back... Read more »| 21 Apr 2016 -
Interviews
Emma Pollock on Record Labels and Solo Careers
Emma Pollock's early career saw her fronting The Delgados and drinking with John Peel in Motherwell pubs. Now, as the record label she co-founded turns 21, she has released her best solo album yet. Just don't ask her to make you a playlist Read more »| 21 Apr 2016