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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NewsActing Strange – Start It Over: Track Premiere
Listen to Start It Over, the first track from the new album by Glasgow band Acting Strange Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
NewsKate Tempest shares blistering Europe is Lost video
The insanity of our current political climate is documented in the video for the powerful Kate Tempest piece Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Interviews
The Upside Down: S U R V I V E interview
Best known for their Stranger Things soundtrack, we talk to S U R V I V E about synths, sophomore album RR7349 and what's next for the four-piece ahead of th... Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Interviews
Introducing: Rationale
We grabbed a quick chat with Rationale, aka Tinashe Fazakerley, after his King Tut's show last month to talk touring, Pharrell, and family connections The S... Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Live MusicRoaming Roots Revue @ Royal Concert Hall, 28 Jan
Now in its fifth year, the Roaming Roots Revue has come to serve as somewhat of a centre piece in the annual Celtic Connections calendar. Possibly the showca... Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Reviews
Brooders – Brooders
Brooders may conjure up an image of some kind of Kim Deal-based tribute act but this three-piece pulled from the Midlands, London and based in Leeds are very... Read more »| 02 Feb 2017
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News
Nam Wayne – Nam Wayne (Album Premiere)
Listen to Nam Wayne's self-titled debut album in full a week ahead of release Read more »| 02 Feb 2017 -
Interviews
Trunk of Funk: Craig Charles' favourite tracks
Probably best known as Red Dwarf's Dave Lister, BBC 6 Music's Funk and Soul king Craig Charles lets us delve deep into his musical psyche ahead of his appear... Read more »| 02 Feb 2017 -
NewsLa Bête Blooms – I Know It's Nothing (EP Premiere)
Listen to La Bête Blooms' EP I Know It's Nothing Read more »| 02 Feb 2017 -
Music VideosJAXN – Hot Love (ft. Hookani): Video Premiere
Watch the 'globetrotting' video for the new track by Manchester R'n'B producer JAXN Read more »| 02 Feb 2017 -
Things To Do
Live music in Manchester this week: 1-7 Feb
With the arrival of February comes a decidedly juicier gig calendar, proven this week by the likes of Yasiin Bey – aka Mos Def – at O2 Ritz and Aussie singer-songwriter Carla Dal Forno at Soup Kitchen Read more »| 02 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
Pixies, Orbital and Alt-J headline Bluedot 2017
Soulwax and Warpaint also lined up for the Jodrell Bank festival Read more »| 02 Feb 2017 -
Live Music
The Yummy Fur @ Oran Mor, 21 Jan
Band reunions come in many sizes. Some feel it necessary to host a full-blown press conference to announce their return. But others take a more low-key appro... Read more »| 01 Feb 2017 -
Live Music
HQFU / Fair Mothers @ The Hug and Pint, 26 Jan
It might appear odd to pair lo-fi Scots alt-country with melodic electro dance-pop, but Celtic Connections' programming of recent years has been pleasingly e... Read more »| 01 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
Alex Kapranos on Glasgow music doc Lost in France
Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos discusses his recollections of Glasgow's vibrant indie music scene of the 90s ahead of the release of Niall McCann&rsq... Read more »| 01 Feb 2017