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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NewsClint Mansell announces four date UK tour for 2016
Influential soundtrack maestro and former Pop Will Eat Itself frontman Clint Mansell will return to the UK for a string of dates next spring, at last making ... Read more »| 22 Sep 2015 -
InterviewsGet to Know... Menace Beach
Meet Menace Beach, Leeds' grunge-pop's finest, who'll be topping a bill of four fine northern bands at The Deaf Institute, Manchester this Friday (25 September) Read more »| 21 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
Menace Beach – Super Transporterreum EP
No idea what a Super Transporterreum is, but it sounds great. Loud Leeds gang Menace Beach are having a prolific year, with this EP following up on their Jan... Read more »| 21 Sep 2015 -
ReviewsChvrches – Every Open Eye
The follow-up to The Bones of What You Believe sees Glasgow's Chvrches becoming bolder and brighter. Read more »| 21 Sep 2015 -
News
Menace Beach to play Trof and The Skinny Show!
Memphis Industries-signed guitar pop four-piece join our bill in partnership with Trof! Read more »| 18 Sep 2015 -
NewsScottish Alternative Music Awards shortlist named
The nominees for this year’s Scottish Alternative Music Awards (SAMAs) have been announced ahead of next month's ceremony and bash. Read more »| 17 Sep 2015
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Interviews
Get to Know... False Advertising
Meet False Advertising, Manchester's fiercely DIY trio who'll be appearing at The Deaf Institute on 25 Sep in a gig championed by Trof and The Skinny Read more »| 17 Sep 2015 -
Interviews
Liverpool Psych Fest: Sacred Bones Records interviewed
It's a prolific time for Brooklyn's Sacred Bones label; with some of the finest records of the year under their belts, and ahead of Liverpool Psych Fest (where they’ve co-curated a stage with Chile’s BYM label), we chat with general manager Taylor Brode Read more »| 17 Sep 2015 -
Festivals
Five to see at Liverpool Psych Fest 2015
Off to Liverpool Psych Fest? Still sorting your Altered Hours from your Zhods? Worry not – here's five of the lineup's best to get you started Read more »| 17 Sep 2015 -
Live MusicGirlpool / Dean Engle / Cop Graveyard @ Manchester Deaf Institute, 8 September
Sometimes it’s the crowd that makes the evening. There’s an encouraging atmosphere as soon as local lo-fi pairing Cop Graveyard take the stage to... Read more »| 17 Sep 2015 -
News
Glasgow's Sub Club launches Nautilus Rising label
The team behind Glasgow clubbing institution Sub Club have unveiled details of their new record label, Nautilus Rising. Read more »| 17 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
False Advertising – False Advertising
Not all of the young pups bewitched by the 90s US alt-rock underground manage to invigorate its legacy with the enterprise and identity it deserves. Step for... Read more »| 17 Sep 2015 -
Students
A Tale of Two Cities: Music in Liverpool and Manchester
Need more info on the Northwest music scene? Levels, Stealing Sheep, Mugstar and more break it down. Read more »| 17 Sep 2015 -
Videos
Rodion & Mammarella – Inner Outer: Video Premiere
Watch Alice Masters & Pete Collard's video for Inner Outer by Rodion & Mammarella, from the Les Disques De La Mort label of Parisian techno selector Ivan Smagghe. Read more »| 17 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
New Order – Music Complete
For those unconvinced by Music Complete's safe lead single Restless; fear not. The spiralling dance-pop musing on consumer culture sounds robust and expansiv... Read more »| 17 Sep 2015