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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Live MusicGeorge Clinton @ The Ritz, Manchester, 17 April
George Clinton has spent the best part of the last 40 years orchestrating the freakiest gang of funkateers known to mankind. How freaky you ask? The answer l... Read more »| 21 Apr 2014 -
VideosMusic Video Premiere: Stanley Odd – 'Chase Yirsel'
The Skinny present the premiere of the new video from Scottish hip-hop stars Stanley Odd, for Chase Yirsel, taken from the EP of the same name, out 28 April Read more »| 21 Apr 2014 -
VideosMusic Video Premiere: Man Can't Fly – Vacant
The Skinny presents the premiere of the new video from Bradford indie-rock four-piece Man Can't Fly, featuring vocals from A Girl Called Ruth, and a video directed by Ash Pears Read more »| 18 Apr 2014 -
Videos
Ten Rapid: New music videos from Converge, Com Truise and Factory Floor
A week in music videos, with a classic from punk legends Converge, retro-future computer loving from Com Truise, television dreams with Factory Floor, Atmosphere taking on rap behemoth Kanye, and much more Read more »| 18 Apr 2014 -
Playlists
Cloud Sounds #13: The Roots, Golden Teacher, Krokodil, Eno & Hyde and more
Our weekly playlist also includes new tracks from Chris & Cosey, Echo & the Bunnymen, WIFE, Four Tet as Percussions, Twin Shadow, and The Afghan Whigs Read more »| 17 Apr 2014 -
Videos
Video Premiere: Lady North – 'Bum Jiggy'
Returning to the fray with their long-awaited debut album Stellar later this year, instrumental rock trio Lady North unveil 'Bum Jiggy' as a free download Read more »| 16 Apr 2014
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Live MusicRecord Store Day 2014 – Events Guide
We take a look at events happening near you on Record Store Day (19 April), featuring live performances from Sacred Paws, Stanley Odd, Ubre Blanca, Broken Records, LAW and a whole host of others Read more »| 15 Apr 2014 -
Interviews
This Could Be The Last Time: The Twilight Sad in the Studio
James Graham from The Twilight Sad tells us why he wrote the band’s fourth album as if it could be their last, looks back on ten years of touring, and the imminent reissue of their classic debut, Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters Read more »| 15 Apr 2014 -
Reviews
The Faint – Doom Abuse
These Nebraskan digital punks vanished like a deleted file not long after the release of 2008’s Fasciinatiion, seemingly leaving The Faint to be no mor... Read more »| 15 Apr 2014 -
News
Detour's Wee Jaunt returns to Edinburgh
Detour Scotland's pop-up gig showcase, the Wee Jaunt, have announced another series of seven secret gigs, this time happening at seven yet-to-be-confirmed lo... Read more »| 14 Apr 2014 -
Reviews
The Skull Defekts – Dances in Dreams of the Known Unknown
Welcome to the pleasuredrone. You have to hear this. Or maybe you don’t. (But you do.) Latest album from the Swedish noise stalwarts is more of their v... Read more »| 14 Apr 2014 -
News
Forest Swords wins the GIT Award 2014
We report back from the ceremony and concert announcing Forest Swords as the winner of the GIT Award 2014, plus the live concert featuring performances from Ninetails, Ex-Easter Island Head and others, celebrating the musical culture of Merseyside Read more »| 14 Apr 2014 -
Interviews
Breaking The Static: We Came Out Like Tigers Interviewed
Fiercely political and steadfast in their refusal to stand still, Liverpool's We Came Out Like Tigers are an antidote for the times Read more »| 11 Apr 2014 -
Live Music
Therapy? The Garage, Glasgow, 7 April
While the same old talking heads romanticise Britpop’s worst b-sides and exhaustive Nirvana nostalgia draws to its ugly conclusion as pictures of Kurt ... Read more »| 10 Apr 2014 -
Reviews
Chad VanGaalen – Shrink Dust
“Cut off both my hands and threw them in the sand,” sings Chad VanGaalen cheerfully, adding: “Watched them swim away from me like a pair of... Read more »| 10 Apr 2014