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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ReviewsNick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
Nick Cave takes his deepest journey yet on Skeleton Tree, a solemn fugue on death, grief, yearning and both sides of mortality’s coin. Read more »| 12 Sep 2016 -
ReviewsHow To Dress Well – Care
Tom Krell has long been preoccupied with matters of the heart. As How To Dress Well, his first three albums traversed seriously rocky emotional terrain;... Read more »| 12 Sep 2016 -
Students
Doing Music Yourself: Tips from Scotland's Experts
Always fancied fronting a punk band? Accidentally bought a CDJ on Ebay? You'll be needing The Skinny's guide to Scotland's ever-fertile music scene. Read more »| 12 Sep 2016 -
Live Music
Frankie Cosmos @ Stereo, Sep 5
"I'm - we're - Frankie Cosmos," announces Greta Kline, as her three band members settle themselves behind their instruments; a visual reminder that everythin... Read more »| 09 Sep 2016 -
Live MusicLeeds DIY scene newsletter: September 2016
Plenty to check out this month, with Leeds Zine Fair providing a superb opening affair ahead of a busy few weeks of unmissable gigs, starring Unwave, Thee MVP's, Syslack and more... Read more »| 09 Sep 2016 -
FestivalsFestival No.6 2016: Review
In the trippy 1960s TV show The Prisoner, a mysterious giant white balloon called Rover was employed to ensure Patrick McGoohan’s titular character (No... Read more »| 09 Sep 2016
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Playlists
Guest Selector: Lou Barlow of Dinosaur Jr
As Dinosaur Jr prepare to play Liverpool Music Week and Beacons Metro alongside a host of local talent, we ask the band's Lou Barlow to tell us about his own hometown heroes Read more »| 09 Sep 2016 -
Interviews
Revert to Hype: Words with Pink Kink
Liverpool band Pink Kink explain the importance of fantastical, glittery stage personas and tease details of their mysterious debut Read more »| 08 Sep 2016 -
Reviews
Deap Vally – Femejism
LA rockers and crochet enthusiasts Deap Vally return with loud, sludgy, stadium-filling rock’n’roll on Femejism, but not much new ground is ... Read more »| 08 Sep 2016 -
Videos
Video Premiere: EMILIE - Eyes For You
Watch Edinburgh-based EMILIE's new video for single Eyes For You, ahead of her debut EP later this month Emily Atkinson's unabashedly creepy video documents... Read more »| 08 Sep 2016 -
Opinion
We're Breaking Up: Bands Who Need to Quit
It's not us, it's them Read more »| 07 Sep 2016 -
Live Music
Teenage Fanclub @ Liquid Room, 6 Sep
When the aliens finally do arrive, pointing their fancy rayguns in our faces as they demand to see our most valuable cultural artefacts (what are they like, ... Read more »| 07 Sep 2016 -
Festivals
Five to see at Liverpool Psych Fest 2016
Unsure where to start with Psych Fest's impressively eclectic line-up? Here are some of our favourites Read more »| 07 Sep 2016 -
ReviewsPreoccupations – Preoccupations
Given the circumstances surrounding its inception, it’s no wonder that Preoccupations seems so humourless at times. When Viet Cong succumbed ... Read more »| 07 Sep 2016 -
Live Music
Live music in Liverpool this week: 7-13 Sep
Eleanor Friedberger leads the week's gig highlights, alongside a plethora of punk sounds for your delectation: another busy week on the live music front Read more »| 07 Sep 2016