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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MusicAmerican Men: Drum's Not Dead (Just a Bit Queasy)
American Men's Paul Carlin takes a break from puking to tell us what living in a cool world feels like Read more »| 02 Sep 2010 -
MusicBlonde Redhead – Penny Sparkle
Having instigated an evolution away from their Sonic Youth-aping origins with the release of 2000’s, Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons, Blond Redhead&rs... Read more »| 02 Sep 2010 -
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Black Mountain: Let Spirits Ride
In 2008 they brought us In The Future. Now in that future, Black Mountain are ready to unleash Wilderness Heart. Matt Camirand finds the time to talk about its creation, his Led Zeppelin fantasies and how hip-hop legends unite the young rockers Read more »| 02 Sep 2010 -
MusicDancer Vs Politician - Justin Fairborn
Sun kissed, burnished and saccharine, Dancer Vs Politician want to bring the joyous Sunday mornings of the sixties to your room. Only a few chords permeate J... Read more »| 02 Sep 2010 -
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Black Mountain – Wilderness Heart
Unlike the musical trajectory of many of the influences Black Mountain happily wear on their sleeves, Wilderness Heart finds the Canadian troupe temp... Read more »| 02 Sep 2010 -
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Detour's Wee Jaunt 2
Live music at a new level Read more »| 02 Sep 2010
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BooksWhat the Hell Are You Doing? by David Shrigley
The artist David Shrigley is from Macclesfield originally, but is now a Glasgow resident, and if you’re struggling to place the name, you’ll prob... Read more »| 02 Sep 2010 -
Music
Losers – Beautiful Losers
This side project by radio DJ Eddy Temple-Morris along with Tom Bellamy from the Cooper Temple Clause attempts to follow the manifesto of Temple-Morris&rsquo... Read more »| 02 Sep 2010 -
Books
A Sideways Ride Through Jekyll and Hyde
Kevin MacNeil is a writer from Lewis whose previous work has included poetry, plays, and a debut novel The Stornoway Way - which Rodge Glass named as his choice for ‘Best Scottish book of the 21st Century’ in our Unbound pullout. His latest book, A Method Actor’s Guide to Jekyll and Hyde, is out on 1 September Read more »| 02 Sep 2010 -
Music
Choose Your Reality: Alan Moore Unearthed
The legendary writer, magician and cultural icon discusses his new album Unearthing, reinventing H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos for the twenty-first century, and the counter-cultural collaborations of his magazine Dodgem Logic Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
MusicEnvy – Recitation
Recitation is an apt title for Japanese hardcore band Envy’s fifth long player, invoking the scene of a dramatic storyteller with an audience in the pa... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
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Manic Street Preachers – Postcards From A Young Man
This is, according to Nicky Wire, the Manics’ “last chance to attempt to communicate on a mass level” – a peculiar statement, conside... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
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The Dirty Dozen – September 2010
This month we plonk our old-school ghetto-blaster in front of a napping Steve Mason. It took the sound of the September singles to rouse him from his torpor Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
Music
Castanets - Texas Rose, the Thaw and the Beasts
Fifth album from experimental folk soloist Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
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Of Montreal – False Priest
Credit the presence of Jon Brion (Kanye West) or cameos by pop singers, but False Priest is easily Of Montreal's most accessible album since 2004's Satanic P... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010