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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FestivalsThreshold 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 -
Live MusicPrimal 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 -
ReviewsRM 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
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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 -
ReviewsThe Coathangers – Nosebleed Weekend
We've somehow reached a decade since Atlanta noisemongers The Coathangers first appeared, emerging from scrappy beginnings to become firm favourites of garag... Read more »| 04 Apr 2016 -
Reviews
Woodpigeon – T R O U B L E
Mark Andrew Hamilton has enjoyed an impressively prolific ten years performing under the sometimes-solo moniker Woodpigeon – but he came within in... Read more »| 01 Apr 2016 -
Reviews
Ash Koosha – I AKA I
Iranian born, London based Ash Koosha has certainly led a captivating life. At 30 years of age the multi-instrumentalist and electronic musician has battled ... Read more »| 01 Apr 2016 -
Live Music
Clint Mansell @ The Royal Concert Hall, 29 Mar
A world away from his bombastic Pop Will Eat Itself days, former lead singer Clint Mansell has returned to Scottish shores as a metamorphosed man, after a le... Read more »| 01 Apr 2016 -
Reviews
New Albums This Week: Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai
Our round-up of the best new music released this week, including the return of Explosions In The Sky, and the latest record from Mogwai. Read more »| 01 Apr 2016