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 MusicLake Komo @ Night and Day, 2 July
Lake Komo are sincere. They peddle largely acoustic soft rock that lets you know, pretty much from the outset, that these four people like American guitar mu... Read more »| 04 Jul 2016 -
Interviews
Almost Gold: Introducing The Lapelles
The Lapelles are five hard-working youngsters from East Kilbride who are already commanding the attention of London's music industry. We retrace their appeal to a certain new town mentality Read more »| 01 Jul 2016 -
Live Music
Kamasi Washington @ Manchester Academy 2, 28 June
Though he may be best known to many as the saxophonist who helped flesh out Kendrick Lamar’s game-changing To Pimp a Butterfly, Kamasi Washin... Read more »| 01 Jul 2016 -
FestivalsLiverpool Music Week 2016: First bands revealed
Horrors side project Cat's Eyes join this year's bill, alongside Manchester's GoGo Penguin and hotly-tipped Mersyside favourites Clean Cut Kid and She Drew The Gun Read more »| 01 Jul 2016 -
News
The SAY Award 2016: For Whom the Bell Tolls
The fifth annual SAY Award may have left Glasgow for a new home in Paisley, but this year's show was as fun and eclectic as ever. We survey the night and speak to its victor Read more »| 30 Jun 2016 -
Live MusicScottish Gig Highlights – July 2016
Feminist stadium pop! Heroic hip-hop veterans! Reunited 90s indie faves! Yep, summer's officially here, and July's arrival heralds one last chance to throw yourself into the hectic live music calendar before festival season well and truly takes over Read more »| 30 Jun 2016
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Live Music
Live music in Liverpool this week: 29 Jun - 6 Jul
Stuck for gigs to go to this week? Strange Collective's EP launch, The Lapelles and a visit from Burt Bacharach should all be on your calendar Read more »| 29 Jun 2016 -
News
Anna Meredith wins The SAY Award 2016
Anna Meredith was chosen ahead of CHVRCHES, Franz Ferdinand and Sparks supergroup FFS and folk veterans Lau at the Paisley Town Hall ceremony Read more »| 29 Jun 2016 -
Live Music
Saint Etienne/The Pastels @ The Art School, 23 June
So the referendum popped round and did a massive Brexit, right then and there on the living room carpet. It didn’t have to be this way, and both The Pa... Read more »| 29 Jun 2016 -
Interviews
Be Charlotte: Dundee's new pop revolutionary
It's a long way from Dundee to Austin, Texas, but that's just one career milestone that Charlotte Brimner has already taken in her stride. We talk to the inn... Read more »| 29 Jun 2016 -
Live Music
Car Seat Headrest @ Broadcast, 23 June
James Hindle of The Pooches has left his bandmates at home for his opening set tonight. The songwriter has just an acoustic guitar for company, but fills the... Read more »| 29 Jun 2016 -
Reviews
Cold Pumas – The Hanging Valley
Ah, yes – indie pop. Swirling guitars, motorcycle bass, twee (in places) but also beholden to liveliness (and therefore life-affirming), zipping along ... Read more »| 29 Jun 2016 -
Live Music
Ty Segall & The Muggers @ The Art School, 22 June
The trauma begins with the delinquent racket of Ausmuteants. The four-piece rip through a short, sharp support set heavy on primitive rhymes, synth blasts an... Read more »| 28 Jun 2016 -
Things To Do
Live music in Manchester this week: 29 Jun - 6 Jul
While the week's undisputed highlight – Beck at the Albert Hall – sold out long ago, there’s still plenty to sink those music-loving teeth ... Read more »| 28 Jun 2016 -
Festivals
John Carpenter brings tour to Edinburgh & Liverpool
Horror director and composer John Carpenter will perform some of his iconic film scores on an expanded tour of the UK in October Read more »| 28 Jun 2016