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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VideosAli Robertson – Couldn't Want You More: Video Premiere
Watch the new video for Ali Robertson's Couldn't Want You More Read more »| 13 Feb 2017 -
FestivalsThreshold festival launches crowdfunding campaign
Organisers hope to raise £9,000 to help fund the Liverpool festival Read more »| 13 Feb 2017 -
News
A Tribe Called Quest slam Trump at Grammys
Watch A Tribe Called Quest's powerful anti-Trump Grammy performance, with a little help from Anderson Paak and as well as Consequence and Busta Rhymes. Read more »| 13 Feb 2017 -
NewsAnna Meredith, Happy Meals to play SxSW
An exciting line up of Scottish bands are being supported to perform at SxSW in Austin, Texas this March Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
Live Music
Big Thief @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 7 Feb
There’s a confused atmosphere in Soup Kitchen tonight. Or at least that’s how it feels: while the roomful of 20-to-50-somethings (quite reasonabl... Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
Gold Panda heads Stag & Dagger 2017 line-up
The first bands for this year's multi-venue festival in Glasgow have been revealed Read more »| 10 Feb 2017
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Festivals
Lost Map's Howlin' Fling returns for 2017
The festival on Lost Map's island home of Eigg returns this July Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
Music Videos
Taupe – A Clown Drools: Video Premiere
Taupe, Newcastle’s resident chaotic punk-jazz maestros, release their second album Fill Up Your Lungs and Bellow on 24 Feb ahead of a UK tour playing d... Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
Reviews
Six Organs of Admittance – Burning the Threshold
One can’t keep the prodigious guitarist Ben Chasny quiet for long. Since 1998 Chasny has had a prolific output, releasing a Six Organs of Admittance re... Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
News
UKAEA – Precinct's Goin Off: Track Premiere
Listen to a new track from techno producer UKAEA, taken from a new series of tape releases by Liverpool label Pale Master Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
News
The Coral's Lee Southall unveils debut solo album
Listen to a new track from the ex-Coral guitarist Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
Interviews
Nadia Reid on folk, women in music & Preservation
The Skinny catch up with New Zealander Nadia Reid ahead of her UK and European tour celebrating the release of sophomore album Preservation When we catch up... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Interviews
Los Campesinos! on Sick Scenes
We speak to Los Campesinos!' Gareth David about life, the universe and everything Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Reviews
Meursault – I Will Kill Again
When main protagonist Neil Pennycook called time on Meursault in 2014 after three albums proper, fans hoped it wouldn't be the last they'd hear from him. Tra... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Live Music
Cymbals Eat Guitars @ Electric Circus, 7 Feb
Due to an unforeseeable illness, the assembled crowd at Electric Circus are to be treated to an unexpected “solo set”. Details are scant and, as ... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017