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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InterviewsUniversal Joys: Frankie Cosmos Interviewed
Greta Kline tells it like it is: the native New Yorker behind Frankie Cosmos conjures universal truths from minute details of daily life Read more »| 29 Aug 2016 -
NewsNeu! Reekie! Celts: Full line-up revealed
The full line-up for Neu! Reekie!'s late night party at the National Museum of Scotland has been unveiled. Welsh soprano turned pop activist Charlotte Churc... Read more »| 29 Aug 2016 -
InterviewsCome Together – Shield Patterns Interviewed
With Mirror Breathing, the Manchester-based duo enrich their electro template with fuller arrangements and an intimate, affecting narrative. They talk us though the creative development behind their second album Read more »| 26 Aug 2016 -
Opinion
Liverpool and Psychedelia: A Brief History
The Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia returns to expand our consciousness once more this September. We look at the city's long relationship with this most far-reaching of musical explorations Read more »| 26 Aug 2016 -
Intersections
Carly Rae Jepsen and the Queerification of Pop
We've come a long, long way since Katy Perry's accidental girl-kissing... Read more »| 26 Aug 2016 -
Live MusicGreen Man 2016: Festival Review
We brave the downpour in the Brecon Beacons to take in the splendour of another triumphant Green Man... Read more »| 25 Aug 2016
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Music VideosWatch Angel Olsen's new video for Sister
Angel Olsen reveals a dramatic, dusty video for Sister, ahead of new album MY WOMAN Read more »| 24 Aug 2016 -
Interviews
Bovine Intervention: An Interview with Cowtown
One of the many jewels of Leeds' diverse DIY scene, post-punk idiosyncrats Cowtown return with new album Paranormal Romance. Here they share their thoughts o... Read more »| 24 Aug 2016 -
Live Music
Sigur Rós @ Edinburgh Playhouse, 15 August
As ever with Sigur Rós, the group's ethereal performances are as much about the visual as the aural. The gilt and plush scarlet surrounds of Edinburgh... Read more »| 23 Aug 2016 -
Live Music
Live music in Liverpool this week: 25-30 Aug
Stuck for live music this bank holiday? From rap superstars to punk weekenders, it's another busy week on Liverpool's ever-hectic gig circuit Read more »| 23 Aug 2016 -
Things To Do
Live music in Manchester this week: 25-30 Aug
This week it's all about The Garden at Fallow Cafe, Listener at Gullivers, a curious Nun's Court Festival down at the Old Pint Pot and much, much more. Read more »| 23 Aug 2016 -
Live Music
Broken Records @ Summerhall, 20 Aug
Like returning comets, Broken Records shows don’t come around so often these days. Perhaps it’s the lesser-spotted nature of their live appe... Read more »| 23 Aug 2016 -
Interviews
Separation Anxiety: Preoccupations on their rebirth
Preoccupations, the Canadian post-punk quartet formerly known as Viet Cong talk reinvention, forward movement and personal politics Read more »| 23 Aug 2016 -
Opinion
Frank Ocean, Kanye West and the art of the surprise album
We want new music, and we want it now! But what's worse? Frank Ocean's ridiculously postponed record drop, or Kanye's confusion over The Life of Pablo? ... Read more »| 22 Aug 2016 -
Festivals
HOPELESSNESS @ The Playhouse, 17 Aug
There's a deep rumbling shaking the Playhouse's listed foundations. The house lights fade, and a forest of dry ice clears to reveal a cinema-sized screen dom... Read more »| 22 Aug 2016