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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MusicArt Goes Pop: Introducing Micachu and The Shapes
Having recently released their debut album on Rough Trade records, experimental pop band Micachu and The Shapes have been attracting a significant amount of ... Read more »| 08 Apr 2009 -
MusicBrakes - Touchdown
Initially epitomising the side project (members culled from the line-ups of several C-list indie groups - check! Five-second novelty throwaway tracks - check... Read more »| 08 Apr 2009 -
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Nadja - When I See the Sun it Always Shines on TV
This may very well be the world’s first catchy, singalong drone metal album. Read more »| 08 Apr 2009 -
MusicArt Brut - Art Brut vs. Satan
Recorded with Frank Black in what is a rare production outing for the Pixies frontman, punk outsiders Art Brut have retained the rambunctious energy and ende... Read more »| 08 Apr 2009 -
MusicPasse Montagne - Oh My Satan
There are 12 instrumentals in 21 minutes on Passe Montagne’s brilliantly titled second record Oh My Satan. Consisting of two jagged, scratchy no-wave g... Read more »| 08 Apr 2009 -
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Building Rome in a Day: The 48 Hour Film Project 2009
Some quarters of common knowledge suggest that Julius Caesar didn’t build Rome in a day and it took God nearly a week to create the Earth. A widely he... Read more »| 08 Apr 2009
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Junior Boys - Hazel
A woman with Hazel eyes ruffles the Junior Boys' normally cool exterior Read more »| 08 Apr 2009 -
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Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
The return of the mad scientist of hip-hop Read more »| 07 Apr 2009 -
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Patrick Wolf - Vulture
With over two years having passed since the release of his last single, The Magic Position, it’s reassuring to find Patrick Wolf still in the process o... Read more »| 07 Apr 2009 -
MusicBenjamin Wetherill @ The Bowery, 4 Apr
Fife Kills presents a night of alt-pop and freak folk, with Skinny favourite Rob St. John and Leeds based Benjamin Wetherill. Read more »| 07 Apr 2009 -
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Je Suis Animal - Fortune Map
Listening to Je Suis Animal is like peering through Lewis Carroll’s looking-glass - things seem familiar, but something you can’t quite put your ... Read more »| 07 Apr 2009 -
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Jeffrey Lewis - 'Em Are I
New York's renaissance slacker Jeffrey Lewis cultivates a prolific lifestyle, cramming the recording of this new album somewhere into a hectic touring, lectu... Read more »| 07 Apr 2009 -
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Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
Local stalwarts Camera Obscura’s latest album title will likely elicit obvious jokes from detractors, especially with an opening line like “spend... Read more »| 07 Apr 2009 -
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The Damned - Phantasmagoria / Anything Reappraised
Formed in 1976 The Damned (Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible, Rat Scabies, Brian James) were the first punk band to release a single (New Rose, in 1976 – o... Read more »| 07 Apr 2009 -
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The Hold Steady - A Positive Rage
“A lot of people don’t believe that rock and roll can save your soul…I don’t think any one of these people have ever seen The Hold S... Read more »| 07 Apr 2009