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 MusicMassive Attack / Young Fathers @ O2 Academy, 22 Jan
'Support slot' is a woefully inadequate descriptor for the brilliant performance erupting from Young Fathers. We’re here, of course, in giddy anticipat... Read more »| 27 Jan 2016 -
FestivalsLost Map's Howlin' Fling! fest returns for 2016
Lost Map have announced the return of their Howlin' Fling! festival to the island of Eigg in the inner Hebrides this July. Read more »| 27 Jan 2016 -
ReviewsThe Wave Pictures – A Season in Hull
So, how did you celebrate your last birthday? Pub, was it? Dinner with friends perhaps? Sigh – how unproductive. You want to take a leaf out of th... Read more »| 27 Jan 2016 -
ReviewsDIIV – Is The Is Are
There are more than a fair few Brooklyn bands that have a particular taste for jangly guitars and not washing. It is only a minority of these, however, where... Read more »| 27 Jan 2016 -
ReviewsNevermen – Nevermen
Some eight years since they first teased the possibility, maverick Anticon co-founder Doseone (‘mind’), TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe (&... Read more »| 26 Jan 2016 -
Reviews
Basia Bulat – Good Advice
The Canadian singer's fourth album is a subtle but distinct redefining of her angular pop aesthetic. Produced by Jim James of My Morning Jacket in his Kentuc... Read more »| 26 Jan 2016
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Reviews
Mass Gothic – Mass Gothic
Here comes the cliché: there’s a handful of good songs on Mass Gothic – enough to constitute a strong, promising EP. A good album it ... Read more »| 26 Jan 2016 -
Reviews
Benji Hughes – Songs in the Key of Animals
Opening with a funky rundown of the guests at the Peacockin’ Party, including a monkey, a donkey and 'a penguin in a tux lookin’ so deluxe', Song... Read more »| 26 Jan 2016 -
Reviews
Beacon – Escapements
Having garnered plaudits for the spacey electronics and sweet vocal mix of 2013’s The Way We Separate, Brooklyn duo Beacon return with a more complex t... Read more »| 26 Jan 2016 -
Live Music
Apache Darling @ King Tut's, 20 January
If there’s a unifying theme linking the four acts primed and ready to do their thing on the King Tut’s stage tonight, it’s a common thread ... Read more »| 26 Jan 2016 -
Reviews
Jesu / Sun Kil Moon – Jesu / Sun Kil Moon
Another fine collaboration for Mark Kozelek, who finally lets the music do the talking Read more »| 26 Jan 2016 -
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Field Music – Commontime
Sunderland’s own brotherly writing duo, Peter and David Brewis, have been at it again. Their first release since 2012’s Mercury Prize nominated P... Read more »| 26 Jan 2016 -
News
Kathryn Joseph tops Scottish music writers' poll
Kathryn Joseph's Bones You Have Thrown Me, And Blood I’ve Spilled has topped the 2015 Scottish Bloggers and Music Sites (BAMS) poll to find the year's best album. Read more »| 25 Jan 2016 -
Live Music
Daughter @ Manchester Albert Hall, 21 Jan
It's oh so quiet… And it really is. Just as Daughter start to test their voice with second album Not to Disappear, tonight they perform an abrupt abou... Read more »| 25 Jan 2016 -
Reviews
Bloc Party – Hymns
It's hard to know where to start with the 2015 version of Bloc Party. A far cry from the band that crafted one of this generation's finest debut records in S... Read more »| 25 Jan 2016