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 MusicMark Eitzel @ Deaf Institute, Manchester, 9 Mar
Mark Eitzel is a genius and geniuses… well, they’re not like you and me are they? They can be difficult. They can dazzle and dismay. He does bot... Read more »| 14 Mar 2017 -
Live MusicSam Coomes @ Eagle Inn, Salford, 8 Mar
Is there a term in music that’s greeted with as much nervous apprehension as ‘solo album’? Perhaps it’s less of a concern when the pe... Read more »| 14 Mar 2017 -
Live Music
Scottish Gigs of the Week: 14-20 Mar
Jagwar Ma, Factory Floor, Meursault and Start to End's take on Feist feature in our Scottish live music highlights... Read more »| 14 Mar 2017 -
Interviews
Hannah Peel on Awake But Always Dreaming & Threshold
The Skinny talks to Northern Irish musician Hannah Peel about her album Awake But Always Dreaming, which tackles the emotional subject of her grand... Read more »| 14 Mar 2017 -
FestivalsThreshold Festival 2017 reveals full music line-up
Over 100 acts to play across five stages in Liverpool's Baltic Triangle Read more »| 14 Mar 2017 -
New Music
Jay Rolex & MC Almond Milk – Studz Up: Video Premiere
Watch the video for Jay Rolex & MC Almond Milk's single, Studz Up Read more »| 14 Mar 2017
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Festivals
LIMF 2017 programme announced
DJ Spoony, Yousef and Trevor Nelson to host a series of LIMF Presents events, while Gorgon City, Corinne Bailey Rae and Cast will appear at this year's Summer Jam in Sefton Park Read more »| 14 Mar 2017 -
Videos
Static Union – Accelerator: Video Premiere
Watch the brand new video for Static Union's latest single, Accelerator Read more »| 13 Mar 2017 -
Reviews
Summer Moon – With You Tonight
With The Strokes being more on-and-off than a loose lightswitch in a windstorm, and as Julian Casablancas and Albert Hammond Jr. push their own personal... Read more »| 13 Mar 2017 -
Reviews
Great Ytene – Locus
Don’t worry if you’re unfamiliar with Great Ytene’s previous self-titled effort, because Locus might as well be the work of a different ban... Read more »| 13 Mar 2017 -
ReviewsPulled Apart By Horses – The Haze
Pulled Apart By Horses’ fourth album does not mess about. It’s taken them three years, a switch of drummer (founder member Lee Vincent jumpe... Read more »| 13 Mar 2017 -
Reviews
Dams of the West – Youngish American
As if it wasn’t enough being the drummer for Vampire Weekend and creating a more-than-reputable body of work, Chris Tomson has restarted the exact same... Read more »| 13 Mar 2017 -
Reviews
Spoon – Hot Thoughts
Hot Thoughts is album number nine for Spoon, and their first for Matador since 1996. However, this isn't a 'back-to-basics' exercise, but a rediscovery of th... Read more »| 13 Mar 2017 -
ReviewsYossarians – Fabric of Time
'Suffer me, or suffer the consequence,' snarls Tim Schiazza during the thunderous Birthday Party-esque tumult of second track Suffer Me. For most of Fabric o... Read more »| 13 Mar 2017 -
Live Music
Glass Animals @ The Liquid Room, 9 Mar
It’s pineapples-aplenty on the second sold-out night in Edinburgh’s Liquid Rooms, with the Glass Animals' favourite prickly fruit littering the c... Read more »| 13 Mar 2017