Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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MusicAvey Tare's Slasher Flicks – Enter The Slasher House
While his Animal Collective wing-man Panda Bear’s songs are otherworldly and angelic, Avey Tare (né Dave Portner) frequently occupies the other ... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
MusicThe Body – I Shall Die Here
The Haxan Cloak spent months processing The Body's urgent, howled vocals and feral blasts of shredded guitar noise, transfiguring them into the dense and opp... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
MusicCloud Nothings – Here and Nowhere Else
“I’m moving forward while I keep the past around me,” rasps 23-year-old Dylan Baldi on Pattern Walks, the seven-minute earth-scorcher from ... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
Music
King of the Mountains – Zoetrope
While the term is often deployed as a smokescreen when bickering bands part ways, genuine "musical differences" can be invigorating, yoking oppositional tast... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
Music
Fatherson – I Am An Island
Orbiting the Scottish music scene for a few years, collecting a string of support slots (including Frightened Rabbit and Idlewild) charming Kilmarnock indie ... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014 -
Music
School of Language – Old Fears
Indie pop renaissance man David Brewis takes time out from the day job to return to School of Language. Actually, make that day jobs – his role as... Read more »| 27 Mar 2014
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Music
On Tour: Future Islands, The Amazing Snakeheads
Following the viral explosion that followed their appearance on the Letterman show – with singer Samuel Herring emoting like a pro and dancing lik... Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
Music
Chemikal Underground announce East End Social finale weekend
News of two gala concerts to close out Chemikal Undergound's ambitious, sprawling East End Social programme, part of Culture 2014, featuring Mogwai, Optimo, Hudson Mohawke and Numbers Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
Art
Art News: Graham Fagen heads to Venice Biennale, Richard Demarco's art collection finds a home
A round-up of art news, including Scottish artist Graham Fagen's selection for the 2015 Venice Biennale, Richard Demarco's art collection to be found a permanent home, plus a look at forthcoming exhibitions Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
Film
Muppets Most Wanted
A musical nod to diminishing returns for sequels opens Muppets Most Wanted, and while this is an overall inferior product compared to its immediate forerunne... Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
MusicThe Afghan Whigs – Do to the Beast
From their rough-hewn beginnings with Big Top Halloween to the enduring elegance of 1965, each Afghan Whigs album somehow arrived with the air of a moment th... Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
Film
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
As homogeneous as Marvel Studios’ cinematic universe is, the attempts to play up different tones and genres with its recent lot of films have brought w... Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
Music
Holy Mountain – Ancient Astronauts
Glasgow-based hard rock trio Holy Mountain turn the psych-factor up to eleven on their latest release; there's a noticeably extended sense of scope on this f... Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
Film
Join Russell Crowe at the premiere of Darren Aronofsky's Noah
At a gala premiere at Edinburgh's Filmhouse, Russell Crowe will be in attendance for one of the first UK screenings of Noah, the new epic from Darren Aronofsky. Here's your chance to grab tickets for the event, which takes place on 29 March Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
Music
OFF! – Wasted Years
Some aspects of life are inevitable. Politicians will break their promises, British summertime offers more shades of grey than literary-pretentious trashporn... Read more »| 26 Mar 2014