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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ReviewsThe Ocean Party – Restless
Restless has the kind of chiming guitar lines you last heard on a Chills album, and the vocals are high enough in the mix to tell you THIS IS A POP... Read more »| 30 Sep 2016 -
ReviewsGang of Four - Live... In the Moment
The algorithm runs like this: for every great live album, there are 50 or more that are bad ideas. Periodically, though, you have a band that are seen a... Read more »| 30 Sep 2016 -
Reviews
Merchandise - A Corpse Wired For Sound
On new record A Corpse Wired For Sound the Florida post punks revert to a trio collaborating over long distance, following their brief expansi... Read more »| 30 Sep 2016 -
Opinion
Don't Call It A Revival: Emo in 2016
We look at the past, present and future of emo Read more »| 29 Sep 2016 -
Interviews
Peripheral Vision: Mitski Interviewed
The Skinny meets Mitski to talk about Björk, the power in sad pop music and feeling like an outsider – even when your music's hit the mainstream Read more »| 29 Sep 2016 -
Interviews
Made in the UK: Kano Interviewed
The MOBO and Mercury Prize nominated MC tells The Skinny about the collaboration, competition and multiculturalism at the heart of his music Read more »| 29 Sep 2016
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News
Kate Bush announces Before The Dawn live album
Kate Bush has announced details of a three-disc live album recorded during her 2014 Before The Dawn gigs in London. The 22-night residency at London's Hamme... Read more »| 29 Sep 2016 -
Things To Do
Live music in Manchester this week: 28 Sep-4 Oct
This week's got everything from rising Aussies The Goon Sax and local acts aplenty at the Oxjam Takeover in Chorlton, through to electro heads Moderat and legendary folktronica pioneer Beth Orton. Read more »| 28 Sep 2016 -
Live Music
Colleen Green & Cassie Ramone @ The Castle, Manchester, 26 Sep
The north-east U.S. double act are on fine individual form in the Northern Quarter Read more »| 28 Sep 2016 -
Reviews
Rory O’B - Quit Rapping EP
Although you wouldn’t know it reading some of the trend pieces flying around at the moment, hip hop has been a well-established scene in Scotland ... Read more »| 28 Sep 2016 -
Festivals
In Pictures: Stay Fresh Fest at The Deaf Institute
Manchester's Deaf Institute hosted its first Stay Fresh Fest in September, with some of the most exciting bands in the North on the bill. The Skinny teamed ... Read more »| 28 Sep 2016 -
Live Music
Natalie McCool @ Electric Circus, 21 Sep
This year's dropped more indicators than usual that the world we occupy is a crooked, unjust place. Still – if there's any decency left in 2016, then N... Read more »| 28 Sep 2016 -
Reviews
Douglas Dare - Aforger
Bridport's premier electro-troubadour turns in a trudge of a second album Read more »| 28 Sep 2016 -
ReviewsBlack Marble - It's Immaterial
Chris Stewart's latest collaborative effort is intriguingly atmospheric Read more »| 28 Sep 2016 -
ReviewsDanny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
After a year of blockbuster records and blustering surprise drops, the history books will look favourably on Danny Brown. Atrocity Exhibition is the Detroit ... Read more »| 27 Sep 2016