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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ReviewsKyle Craft – Dolls of Highland
The USA is a big place. A fact just as true now as in the early 70s, from whence Craft’s debut finds much of its influence. And having grown-up on the ... Read more »| 08 Apr 2016 -
Things To DoRecord Store Day 2016: Glasgow, Edinburgh & Dundee
The annual celebration of vinyl merchants returns for another round on Saturday 16 April, with 557 releases in the pipeline and a plethora of events across S... Read more »| 07 Apr 2016 -
Things To Do
Record Store Day 2016: Manchester & Liverpool
Record Store Day 2016 brings free gigs, in-store performances and mini festivals to Manchester and Liverpool. From an all-dayer at Soup Kitchen to a complete takeover of Jacaranda in Liverpool, here's our pick of the best RSD events. Read more »| 07 Apr 2016 -
Festivalsbluedot festival adds Air, Brian Eno art and more
A new festival at Jodrell Bank, bluedot, has today announced new additions to the line-up, which already features Jean-Michel Jarre, Underworld and Caribou Read more »| 07 Apr 2016 -
Interviews
Lush: Shoegaze, Blind Spot and Reunions
Disbanded by tragedy, Lush have remained inactive for two decades. But with a recent compilation highlighting the oft-overlooked quality of their songbook, Emma Anderson tells us why the time was finally right to regroup Read more »| 07 Apr 2016 -
Festivals
Threshold Festival 2016: Photo gallery
Take a look back on this year's Threshold Festival in Liverpool with our photo gallery of the weekend's events Read more »| 06 Apr 2016
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Live Music
Primal Scream @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 30 Mar
Bo Ningen have sucked the air right out of the room. The Japanese-by-way-of-London noise rock sprites are fronting a paltry pre-Primal Scream crowd, but by t... Read more »| 06 Apr 2016 -
Reviews
RM Hubbert – Telling the Trees
Telling the Trees marks something of a new chapter for RM Hubbert. His last album, Breaks & Bones, completed what’s now called his 'Ampersand trilo... Read more »| 06 Apr 2016 -
Live MusicProtomartyr @ Broadcast, Glasgow, 2 Apr
This is not your typical rock’n’roll experience. The band barely acknowledge the audience. In between verses, the singer carries the air of ... Read more »| 06 Apr 2016 -
Reviews
PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project
"I will not dignify this inane composition with a response" was Washington, D.C.'s former mayor Vincent Gray's (wholly disingenuous) response to The Communit... Read more »| 06 Apr 2016 -
Festivals
Edinburgh International Festival: 2016 line-up
Gigs from Sigur Rós and Godspeed You! Black Emperor and a digital art project at Edinburgh Castle soundtracked by Mogwai are among the highlights... Read more »| 06 Apr 2016 -
Reviews
Deftones – Gore
The Sacramento survivors continue to evolve and compel in their 28th year. What keeps us leaning in is the visceral push and pull between frontman Chino More... Read more »| 05 Apr 2016 -
Reviews
Knifeworld – Bottled Out of Eden
Knifeworld’s Kavus Torabi has never been afraid to use the crawlspace between prog, psychedelia and full-blown, overt pop, only to fill it with the exp... Read more »| 05 Apr 2016 -
Festivals
Brew at the Bog announce 2016 headliners
Idlewild and The Lafontaines have been announced as headliners for this summer's Brew at the Bog festival near Inverness. Read more »| 04 Apr 2016 -
Interviews
Future of the Left: Falco on The Peace and Truce
In spite of his famously sharp tongue, Future of the Left's Andrew 'Falco' Falkous is trying his best to be a nice guy. Ahead of his band's appearance at Gla... Read more »| 04 Apr 2016