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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MusicAnimal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
God only knows where they go from here... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
MusicThe Bronx: Road Warriors
In a manner somewhat suited to his band's style, The Bronx vocalist Matt Caughthran catches up Ryan Drever with on the road to talk records, movies and mariachi bands. Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
MusicAndrew Bird - Noble Beast
Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird follows 2007's critical success Armchair Apocrypha with an intricate beauty of an LP that's by turns introspective and inst... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
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Remember Remember: Commit To Memory
Graeme Ronald, lynchpin of modern classical ensemble Remember Remember, gets into a ‘loop’ with Darren Carle to discuss keeping it real in a computer world. Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
MusicDälek - Gutter Tactics
Like an industrial hip-hop soundtrack to your worst (or favourite) Lynchian nightmare, New Jersey duo Dälek prophesise the apocalypse via the medium o... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
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Fight Like Apes - ...And the Mystery of the Golden Medallion
Ireland’s Fight Like Apes splatter their debut album on an unsuspecting record-buying public this month like Day-Glo paint. Singer Maykay makes like Jemina P... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009
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Conflict Diamonds: Big In Denmark
Posing as rock stars, ‘gaying’ it up to Queen and cautionary Rohypnol tales? Darren Carle enters the crazy world of Conflict Diamonds. Read more »| 07 Jan 2009 -
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Nickel Eye – The Time Of The Assassins
A satisfying work of homespun folk-rock Read more »| 07 Jan 2009 -
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A Muso’s Top 10: Dälek
Having produced four albums of thought-provoking rhymes and challenging beats over the last decade (number five lands this month), Will Brooks (aka MC Dälek) gives up his 'recently played' list and proves that even the most socially conscious emcee knows when to get their smooth on... Read more »| 07 Jan 2009 -
MusicScott Weiland – “Happy” in Galoshes
Although known more for his excesses than his music for too long now, it seems Scott Weiland had a weighty pop rock album in him all along. With guest appear... Read more »| 07 Jan 2009 -
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Duane Hopkins: Things Can Only Get Better
Duane Hopkins’ debut Better Things stands out as a film that takes a fresh approach towards familiar subject matter. Gail Tolley meets him. Read more »| 07 Jan 2009 -
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Vivian Girls: Surf's Up, And There's Reverb In The Waves
To say that Vivian Girls are an overnight sensation is to do them a disservice: an over-year sensation, if you have to. Lauren Mayberry sits down with the ladies to find out how they did it, and what not to mix with your milkshake. Read more »| 07 Jan 2009 -
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I Hear a New Year World - January, 2009
Ish Marquez - Pipe Dream Memories I can't imagine a better track to kick off 2009 with. The New York musician is an unbelievable guitarist who totally blew ... Read more »| 07 Jan 2009 -
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Buy Tickets Now: Deerhunter @ Stereo, Glasgow, *20 May
Bradford Cox, Deerhunter’s undisputed creative epicentre, had a mixed 2008. The unscrupulous leaking of Microcastle, its bonus disc Weird Era Cont., an... Read more »| 06 Jan 2009 -
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The Wrestler
After years in the wilderness, Mickey Rourke makes the comeback of the decade as an ageing wrestler in a powerful and uplifting drama. Randy The Ram is decad... Read more »| 06 Jan 2009