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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VideosKid Canaveral: First We Take Dumbarton video premiere
Watch the new video for First We Take Dumbarton, the first new track from Kid Canaveral's forthcoming third album. Read more »| 18 May 2016 -
Live MusicTim Hecker @ Academy 3, Manchester, 16 May
Tim Hecker’s eighth album Love Streams encouraged widespread acclaim on its release back in March; the Canadian maestro's masterful ambient m... Read more »| 18 May 2016 -
Live MusicEmma Pollock @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 13 May
"I'll try not to talk too much tonight," says Emma Pollock before she's even played a note. "More time for, you know, the actual songs." Generous in performa... Read more »| 17 May 2016 -
Live Music
Restless Natives: Happy Meals @ Collective, 14 May
It's Saturday night and the Calton is bouncing. The bars in and around the Gallowgate are stowed out. An Easter Rising commemorative march has finished just ... Read more »| 17 May 2016 -
Live Music
Restless Natives: Future of the Left @ St Luke's, 14 May
It’s a sparse crowd that greets last-minute addition Chrissy Barnacle, but those lucky early revellers are treated to something pretty special. Her off... Read more »| 17 May 2016 -
Live Music
Minor Victories @ The Art School, Glasgow, 6 May
There’s an argument to be made that this shouldn’t work. A project without location, material recorded remotely, its protagonists first together ... Read more »| 16 May 2016
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Live Music
Restless Natives: Ghostface Killah @ St Luke's, 13 May
“I want to see ONE THOUSAND PHONES,” bellows ol' Ghost with regal expectation, larger than life under St Luke’s stained glass windows. &ldq... Read more »| 16 May 2016 -
Interviews
On the Money: Maynard James Keenan interviewed
As Puscifer set sail for their European debut, founder Maynard James Keenan meditates on the influence of surrealist British comedy and the lingering threat of a Trumpian dystopia Read more »| 16 May 2016 -
News
The Grand Gestures Remixed: Album Premiere
Listen to an exclusive stream of The Grand Gestures' remix album, ahead of their final live show in Glasgow later this month. Remixed features re... Read more »| 13 May 2016 -
ReviewsChristine Ott – Only Silence Remains
A studied enactment of both vision and virtuosity, Only Silence Remains is Christine Ott's latest solo work, following on from her 2009 debut Solitude N... Read more »| 13 May 2016 -
NewsSAY Award 2016 longlist revealed
The twenty-strong longlist for this year's Scottish Album of the Year Award (SAY Award) has been unveiled. An industry wide panel of nominators, from the ma... Read more »| 12 May 2016 -
Reviews
Fews – Means
Swedish/American four-piece Fews finally let loose over ten full tracks, after teasing music bloggers last year with tracks The Zoo and Ill. On debut record ... Read more »| 12 May 2016 -
Reviews
Marissa Nadler – Strangers
Seven albums in, Boston native Marissa Nadler reunites with producer Randall Dunn, who recorded 2014's July, and continues in much the same vein. That clean ... Read more »| 12 May 2016 -
Reviews
Misha – All We Will Become
Misha’s All We Will Become is apparently inspired by themes of “reincarnation and renewal”, and you can see why the idea of a fresh start m... Read more »| 12 May 2016 -
Interviews
Blood and Guts: Deftones' Chino Moreno on Gore
Deftones' Chino Moreno meditates on creative tension, artistic accessibility and why eschewing populism has served the Sacramento survivors well Read more »| 12 May 2016