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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BooksWould You Eat Your Cat? by Jeremy Stangroom
This book presents us with several ethical conundrums to get us to think about moral philosophy and how we see the world. The somewhat twee world of ... Read more »| 30 Apr 2010 -
Music
Atari Teenage Riot - Activate
Released to coincide with ATR's reunion tour (a reunion in which Alec Empire is the only original member – although Carl Crack has a good excuse by din... Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
MusicAsk Patton: Dillinger Escape Plan, Massive Attack, DoseOne, Portishead, Deftones and Phantom Band submit their questions...
Collaborators, friends and fans from music communities far and wide pitch questions to Ipecac Records boss and Faith No More frontman Mike Patton Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
MusicCibelle - Las Venus Resort Palace Hotel
Leading with a cover of Dr. No theme Underneath the Mango Tree, pop-nut Cibelle shares 007’s cosmopolitan internationalism. Born in Brazil and ... Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
MusicLazer Crystal - MCMLXXX
Lazer Crystal are three electro-futurists who hail from Chicago, and their big thing – in case you hadn’t guessed – is lasers. Boy ... Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
Music
The Untouchable: Mike Patton on Mondo Cane and Faith No More's Second Coming
The chameleonic Mike Patton talks to The Skinny about falling in love with classic Italian pop and ponders a future for Faith No More Read more »| 29 Apr 2010
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Music
The Metal Column - May 2010
Seems that when the deadline for this column rolls around, we’re always a bit concerned that there might not be an abundance of heavy music to cover fo... Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
Music
New Blood: The Boy Who Trapped The Sun
With an eagerly awaited debut album set for release in July, The Boy Who Trapped The Sun talks to The Skinny ahead of what is sure to be the biggest summer of his life Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
Music
Loch Lomond - Night Bats EP
Portland has roughly half a million inhabitants, and surveys reveal that approximately four-hundred thousand of them are in dead good bands (citation... Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
Film
Departures
When newly-unemployed cellist Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Matoki) answers an advert titled ‘Departures’, he’s unsettled to discover himself n... Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
Music
Woodenbox With A Fistful Of Fivers @ Wee Red Bar, 22 April
Whatever the result of the election, we can rest easy that today's young adults have their priorities appropriately ordered: judging by this excellent turnou... Read more »| 28 Apr 2010 -
Music
The Primitives @ Stereo, 22 April
“That’s a blast from the past, eh?” notes the glass-cased ticket-seller. “Met her a few years back - was training to be a hairdresser... Read more »| 28 Apr 2010 -
Music
New Blood: Dam Mantle
Keeping Glasgow's historical form for producing forward-thinking electronica artists alive, relocated Kent native Dam Mantle finds himself in the right place at the right time Read more »| 28 Apr 2010 -
Music
Sage Francis - Li(f)e
Hip-hop isn’t dead, but it seems that any half-way sensible rapper feels a need to assert their relevance and adaptability into shifting musical landsc... Read more »| 28 Apr 2010 -
Music
National Anthems
From their formative days in Cincinnati to the dizzy heights of Bloodbuzz Ohio, we present a chronological guide to The National's catalogue to date Read more »| 28 Apr 2010