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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NewsNorthwest Music News – 16 Sep: Stealing Sheep, Lake of Snakes + more
Our latest missive from the Northwest including details of Stealing Sheep's Mythopoeia III, new music from Cardinal Fuzz and much more... Read more »| 16 Sep 2015 -
Live MusicFuture Islands / Dope Body / Du Blonde @ Glasgow Barrowlands, 9 September
It would take a formidable soul indeed to upstage a leading man as uniquely theatrical as Samuel T Herring, but tonight Future Islands' comrades are rising t... Read more »| 15 Sep 2015 -
News
Warpaint’s Jenny Lee Lindberg announces solo album
Warpaint bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg will release her debut solo album as jennylee in December Read more »| 15 Sep 2015 -
Interviews
Get to Know... Weirds
Meet Weirds, hypnotic psych-rockers from Leeds who will be playing at The Deaf Institute, Manchester on 25 Sep in a special gig supported by The Skinny Read more »| 15 Sep 2015 -
ReviewsDarkstar – Foam Island
The cold landscapes of Darkstar’s work have always been permeated with glimmers of humanity. James Buttery’s vocals on North flickered like snatc... Read more »| 15 Sep 2015 -
News
Starred Up Reworked: Track Premiere
Listen to 'Credit', the closing track from the reworked soundtrack to David Mackenzie's BAFTA Scotland-winning film Starred Up, due for a vinyl release this November Read more »| 15 Sep 2015
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Live Music
Foo Fighters @ Murrayfield, Edinburgh, 8 September
“We might do some stupid shit now and again," Dave Grohl confesses of that onstage tumble in Gothenburg, the broken leg and subsequent three month dela... Read more »| 11 Sep 2015 -
Live Music
Tame Impala @ Barrowland, Glasgow, 8 September
A sold-out Barrowland crowd will rarely disappoint, but the barrier-pushing, clamouring audience on Tuesday night is declared “best of the tour” ... Read more »| 11 Sep 2015 -
News
Stream Ought's new album Sun Coming Down
Listen to Sun Coming Down, the new album from Montreal post-punks Ought, ahead of its release next week Read more »| 11 Sep 2015 -
Interviews
Girl Band's Daniel Fox on Holding Hands With Jamie
Dublin’s Girl Band are not a girl band. Nor a rock band, or even a neo-grunge band. So what are they? Read more »| 10 Sep 2015 -
Interviews
WHITE rise from Kassidy and The Low Miffs' ashes
WHITE are a far more colourful band than the moniker might suggest. With just a couple of singles under their belt and former members of Kassidy and The Low Miffs in their number, just how have the Glasgow five-piece gelled? Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
ReviewsThe Spills – Collecting Dust
Caught somewhere between a fondness for Pavement and their apparent desire to be Mclusky, this Wakefield quartet find their heads tilted towards the nonchala... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Live Music
Mac DeMarco @ O2 ABC Glasgow, 7 September
Glasgow may have just killed Mac DeMarco. The rambunctious singer has launched himself above the eager masses pressed against the barrier of the O2 ABC stage... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
Sealings – I'm A Bastard
Moody, minimalist, mal-illuminated… well yes, we may have been travelled this way before. Yet however derivative such disenfranchised narratives can a... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
Dark Buddha Rising – Inversum
Following on from 2013's sprawling Dakhmandal, Finland's Dark Buddha Rising return with a new lineup for fifth LP Inversum. It's an album of two halves; comp... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015