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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InterviewsYellow Is the New Black: Colonel Mustard & the Dijon 5 interview
We chat to The Colonel about dance-offs in South Korea, the Yellow Movement and Crossing the Road – i.e. the usual Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5 stuff... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
New MusicFat Goth – Carpe Diem (Track Premiere)
Listen to Carpe Diem from Dundee noise-makers Fat Goth's new album Enorme! Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Reviews
Tica Douglas – Our Lady Star of the Sea, Help and Protect Us
The second record from Tica Douglas collects moments and feelings from partway through a journey that might have no end. Over terse acoustic guitar strumming... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
ReviewsAmanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel – I Can Spin a Rainbow
Light a candle in a dark room and wrap up snug; this is a haunted house of a record. Dark corners, echoey corridors, lyrics half sung, half spoken. If this i... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
News
Haçienda Classical to open Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage
Legendary Haçienda DJs team up with Manchester Camerata to take the Friday morning slot on Glastonbury's iconic Pyramid Stage Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Reviews
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – Best Troubador
If the Americana boom of the mid-to-late 2000s can be traced back to anything, it's arguably the death of Johnny Cash in 2003. There was something about the ... Read more »| 03 May 2017
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Reviews
Afghan Whigs – In Spades
Afghan Whigs' latest offering In Spades is just the kind of music you’d expect Greg Dulli and the boys to be producing in 2017, proving the o... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
ReviewsJoan Shelley – Joan Shelley
It's always a little odd when an artist pulls out the self-titled record a few years into their career. This is Joan Shelley's fourth album, and her most con... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Reviews
Fazerdaze – Morningside
“When I’m writing a song I never think about who’s gonna hear it, I just try and think about what I’m feeling, and I try and articula... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Reviews
Black Lips – Satan's Graffiti or God's Art?
Black Lips have never given a lot of fucks, but since working with Mark Ronson on 2011's criminally underrated Arabia Mountain, they've made a concerted effo... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Live Music
Wild Beasts @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 1 May
Boy King is the furthest that Wild Beasts have ventured from their 'signature' sound. It features much heavier, electronic instrumentation that distorts thei... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Things To Do
Live 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 Music
Future 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 Music
MADES – 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