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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InterviewsDarkness Visible: Daughter on Not to Disappear
Second album Not to Disappear is a vivid re-scoping of Daughter's artful melancholy. Elena Tonra tells us why the search for truth remains at the heart of her lyrical design. Read more »| 12 Jan 2016 -
ReviewsDavid Bowie – Blackstar
None of us knew that Blackstar was to be the epitaph. Objectively speaking, Monday morning’s desperately sad news shouldn’t impact upon... Read more »| 12 Jan 2016 -
ReviewsSaul Williams – MartyrLoserKing
2015 was the year hip-hop grew up… again. But ever since 2001’s Amethyst Rock Star (even five years prior, during his time as a slam poet of som... Read more »| 12 Jan 2016 -
Reviews
Cross Record – Wabi-Sabi
Two years ago, husband and wife team Dan Duszynski and Emily Cross, otherwise known as Cross Record, decamped to rural Texas, where Cross, emboldened by the ... Read more »| 12 Jan 2016 -
ReviewsMONEY – Suicide Songs
2013's The Shadow of Heaven saw MONEY become a worthy addition to Manchester’s rich bloodline of musical mavericks. Bewitching melodies, lyrical dexter... Read more »| 12 Jan 2016 -
Reviews
The Altered Hours – In Heat Not Sorry
Debut albums, however raw (and sometimes that’s very raw indeed) are as much about future promise as the here and now. Take Irish five-piece The Altere... Read more »| 11 Jan 2016
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News
David Bowie dead at 69: Iggy Pop, Pixies lead tributes
The profoundly influential songwriter David Bowie has died after a reported 18 month battle with cancer. His social network channels verified the news... Read more »| 11 Jan 2016 -
Art
CCA Highlights – January/February 2016
Artists, musicians and documentarians mobilise against the January blues: we select some gems for the disenfranchised from the CCA's bulging brochure Read more »| 11 Jan 2016 -
News
Northwest Music News – 8 Jan: Manchester Punk Fest
Our latest missive from the Northwest includes a new and possibly final Working For A Nuclear Free City album, as well as new acts for the Manchester Punk Festival, a new discovery in Banana Frequency and more. Read more »| 08 Jan 2016 -
Interviews
The Last Word: Henry Rollins
The punk icon talks leaving music behind, his love of radio and his first lead film role ahead of his first UK tour in four years Read more »| 08 Jan 2016 -
News
The GIT Award returns for 2016
Liverpool music prize The GIT Award will return for a fifth successive year, honouring the best music to emerge from the city. Acts can submit their entries ... Read more »| 07 Jan 2016 -
Reviews
Tortoise – The Catastrophist
Listening from record to record, you’d barely notice most changes in Tortoise’s oeuvre – there’s nothing here quite so forcefull... Read more »| 07 Jan 2016 -
Reviews
Eleanor Friedberger – New View
Recorded in a converted barn studio near her new home in upstate New York, former Fiery Furnaces frontwoman Eleanor Friedburger’s third solo record is ... Read more »| 07 Jan 2016 -
Live Music
A Winged Victory for the Sullen @ St Philip's Church, Salford, 14 Dec
The experimental classicists are on intoxicating form in beautiful Salfordian surroundings Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
Reviews
PAUW – Macrocosm Microcosm
Accomplished and playful, the Dutch quartet's debut is a likeable slice of psychedelia. But that's only half the story. While scene leaders Tame Impala ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016