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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FestivalsLost Map's Howlin' Fling returns for 2017
The festival on Lost Map's island home of Eigg returns this July Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
Music VideosTaupe – A Clown Drools: Video Premiere
Taupe, Newcastle’s resident chaotic punk-jazz maestros, release their second album Fill Up Your Lungs and Bellow on 24 Feb ahead of a UK tour playing d... Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
Reviews
Six Organs of Admittance – Burning the Threshold
One can’t keep the prodigious guitarist Ben Chasny quiet for long. Since 1998 Chasny has had a prolific output, releasing a Six Organs of Admittance re... Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
NewsUKAEA – Precinct's Goin Off: Track Premiere
Listen to a new track from techno producer UKAEA, taken from a new series of tape releases by Liverpool label Pale Master Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
News
The Coral's Lee Southall unveils debut solo album
Listen to a new track from the ex-Coral guitarist Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
Interviews
Nadia Reid on folk, women in music & Preservation
The Skinny catch up with New Zealander Nadia Reid ahead of her UK and European tour celebrating the release of sophomore album Preservation When we catch up... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017
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Interviews
Los Campesinos! on Sick Scenes
We speak to Los Campesinos!' Gareth David about life, the universe and everything Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Reviews
Meursault – I Will Kill Again
When main protagonist Neil Pennycook called time on Meursault in 2014 after three albums proper, fans hoped it wouldn't be the last they'd hear from him. Tra... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Live Music
Cymbals Eat Guitars @ Electric Circus, 7 Feb
Due to an unforeseeable illness, the assembled crowd at Electric Circus are to be treated to an unexpected “solo set”. Details are scant and, as ... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
ReviewsClap Your Hands Say Yeah – The Tourist
Think of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and you'll likely remember their eponymous debut album from 2005, characterised by Alec Ounsworth's distinctive warble on t... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
the xx, Tribe Called Quest headline Bestival 2017
Rob da Bank also welcomes Pet Shop Boys, Jamie T and Dizzee Rascal to the Dorset festival's new site Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
ReviewsDutch Uncles – Big Balloon
Dutch Uncles are an odd bunch. Like fellow Mancunians Everything Everything or American counterparts Battles, the four-piece communicate in their own hyper-c... Read more »| 08 Feb 2017 -
Live Music
DIY Music in Leeds: JUX Festival 2017 & more
The problem with festival line-ups, and why we need more events like Leeds’ annual JUX Read more »| 08 Feb 2017 -
Things To Do
Live music in Manchester: 8-14 Feb
Enjoy Nadia Reid at The Deaf Institute, Andy Shauf at Gullivers, Loyle Carner at Manchester Academy or an audio visual evening of Video Jam at RNCM, before booking yourself in for Sounds From the Other City, Tramlines and Bluedot Read more »| 08 Feb 2017 -
Live Music
Live music in Liverpool this week: 8-14 Feb
The Arch Drude returns! Plus classical adventures from Manchester Collective, politically-minded pop from Cabbage and a whole mess of other delights... Read more »| 08 Feb 2017