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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Live MusicMogwai @ Barrowland, Glasgow, 21 June
Mogwai have always been reticent, both in the vocal-to-instrumental ratio of their output, and also in their propensity towards onstage chit-chat. Yet tonigh... Read more »| 26 Jun 2015 -
Live MusicHanni El Khatib @ Broadcast, Glasgow, 22 June
Mondays may not be synonymous with drunken debauchery, but Broadcast is alive and kicking tonight as LA-based Hanni El Khatib takes the stage for an evening ... Read more »| 26 Jun 2015 -
ReviewsPrefuse 73 – Every Colour Of Darkness
Prefuse 73’s music is like an unscratched itch. Guillermo S. Herren belongs to that small band of producers, including Flying Lotus, who take a hip-hop... Read more »| 26 Jun 2015 -
Reviews
Sleaford Mods – Key Markets
Jason Williamson: lyrical clusterbomb, full of bon mots – often expletives – and prescient observations deployed at dizzying speed. Check him out... Read more »| 26 Jun 2015 -
Reviews
Trembling Bells – The Sovereign Self
The reverberant, harrowing and cathartic vocals of Lavinia Blackwall stretch opener ’Tween the Womb and The Tomb to sheer fullness as she literally sin... Read more »| 26 Jun 2015 -
Reviews
The Orange Humble Band – Depressing Beauty
Ken Stringfellow. Jody Stephens. Jon Auer. Chris Stamey. Mitch Easter. If you are of a certain gender (male), age (um…) and persuasion (into REM when ... Read more »| 25 Jun 2015
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Reviews
Carlton Melton – Out to Sea
Psychedelic jam band Carlton Melton’s latest cosmic voyage aims to open your mind, but you’ll first need to adjust your expectations. Most tracks... Read more »| 25 Jun 2015 -
Reviews
Rolo Tomassi – Grievances
Rolo Tomassi's complex and uncompromising aesthetic has seen them perhaps fall between two stools: leftfield additions to the Download bill on the one hand; ... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
ClubsWolstenholme Square plans revealed as Nation announces closing date
Nation, the Liverpool club which spawned the global clubbing institution Cream, will close its doors at the end of the year, as plans for the development of ... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Reviews
Supermoon – Oh Supermoon, Vol. 1
Neil Pennycook has ditched the Meursault moniker. In its place: Supermoon. A threadbare step down from the intricate and skewed folk of his previous out... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Festivals
Stewart Lee to curate All Tomorrow’s Parties 2.0
Comedian Stewart Lee is to curate the second of ATP’s revived holiday camp weekend festivals in Prestatyn, North Wales next April. Lee's weekende... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Reviews
Mutoid Man – Bleeder
There’s a real dizzying effect when Bleeder first roars out of your speakers; a cyclone of gargantuan riffs and wailing solos that threaten to submerge... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
News
Mogwai announce ‘Central Belters’ boxset
Mogwai have revealed plans for a career-spanning box set of rarities and classic tracks, entitled Central Belters. The thirty-five track collection comes as... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Live Music
From The Kites of San Quentin @ Eagle Inn, Salford, 19 June
Since emerging within Manchester well over half decade ago, From The Kites of San Quentin have consistently pulled apart the seams of electronica and filled ... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Festivals
Postcard from Auld Reekie – Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream
Grant McPhee's ten years in the making Big Gold Dream charts the highs and lows of Edinburgh's post-punk scene. Two of its vanguards, Vic Godard and Malcolm Ross, recall those heady days ahead of the film's world premiere at Edinburgh Film Festival Read more »| 23 Jun 2015