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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Things To DoLive music in Manchester this week: 3-9 May
You've an eclectic week on your hands, as The Travelling Band unveil their new line-up, Matt Mondanile's Ducktails tear up the Soup Kitchen basement and Wheatus – yep, Wheatus! – head our way with those well-worn riffs Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Live MusicFuture Islands @ Barrowlands, Glasgow, 27 Apr
Samuel T. Herring secured his legacy with his legendary performance on Letterman back in 2014. Now he has the task of living up to his well-earned reputation... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
New MusicMADES – Never Lonely (Video Premiere)
Watch the debut music video from MADES for debut single, Never Lonely Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Interviews
Pond on new album The Weather
Pond guitarist Joe Ryan talks impending nuclear threat, colonialism, and producing with Kevin Parker ahead of the Aussie group's seventh album The Weather Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Live Music
Japandroids @ The Garage, Glasgow, 30 Apr
The support for tonight's show, Dasher, set an immediately intense tone with their powerful, grungy guitars, extremely prominent drums and heavy vocals. Feed... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Live MusicLos Campesinos! @ Stereo, Glasgow, 28 Apr
Facilitated by the unprecedented four-year gap between No Blues and Sick Scenes, LC! have managed to transition from peppy, twee upstarts to veterans on... Read more »| 02 May 2017
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ReviewsFat Goth – Enorme!
Picture the scene in David Lynch’s Wild at Heart: Laura Dern’s Lula is driving the big open top car as Nick Cage’s Sailor sleeps in the bac... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Reviews
Twelfth Day – Cracks in the Room
For a decade now, fiddler Catriona Price and harpist Esther Swift have been making challenging, interesting, virtuostic music that is far more than the sum o... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
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Penguin Cafe – The Imperfect Sea
Arthur Jeffes’ decision to resurrect the name and sound of his late father’s iconic instrumental project looked an unlikely proposition when he s... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Reviews
Perfume Genius – No Shape
Only Perfume Genius could conjure a fairy tale from these troubling times. No Shape documents deep lows and the most glittering of highs; harsh and lush in e... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
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Pond – The Weather
Psychedelic princelings Pond are back with their most conventionally named album yet – but don’t let that fool you. Cosmic and colourful, The Wea... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Reviews
Forest Swords – Compassion
It’s hard to place Compassion, the third album by Liverpool-based producer and artist Matthew Barnes aka Forest Swords – but then that&rsquo... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Reviews
Slowdive – Slowdive
It pays to be wary when bands of yore come reforming, the suspicion all-too-often one of bank balance replenishment posing as creative renaissance. This is ... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Reviews
Mac DeMarco – This Old Dog
Mac DeMarco’s reputation precedes him; these days he’s almost known more for his quirky banter than his off-colour jangle pop. But while the Cana... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Interviews
Forest Swords' Matthew Barnes on Compassion
The dark genius of Merseyside electro talks politics, pragmatism and Compassion Read more »| 28 Apr 2017