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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ClubsFlying Lotus: Sound of a Seeker
With his third album, celebrated producer Flying Lotus has hit upon a rich seam of invention, combining jazz with the best of electronica, and transcending both Read more »| 27 Apr 2010 -
TheatreMisery and Song
The most important thing about the tour of Les Miserables currently playing Britain is that it is NOT the famed West End/Broadway production from the 1980s Read more »| 27 Apr 2010 -
Music
Deftones: Garage Days Revisited
As Deftones prepare to emerge from their Sacramento bunker, Chino Moreno and Abe Cunningham talk going back to basics with Diamond Eyes, a love of Risk and a lasting wish to collaborate with Mogwai Read more »| 26 Apr 2010 -
FilmParent Lines: Ian Hart discusses A Boy Called Dad
We talk to Ian Hart, one of Britain’s most prolific character actors, about his latest film A Boy Called Dad Read more »| 26 Apr 2010 -
MusicVirus Syndicate - The Breakout Trilogy
Virus Syndicate’s The Breakout Trilogy is the result of the unholy alliance between brain pummelling Planet Mu producer MRKI and three grime MCs from M... Read more »| 26 Apr 2010 -
Music
Team Ghost - You Never Did Anything Wrong To Me EP
It shouldn’t take long to join the dots between Team Ghost and electro French star-gazers M83. Both use similar artwork and typefaces as well as epic g... Read more »| 26 Apr 2010
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Music
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Some things are worth waiting for; five years on from their eponymous third album, Broken Social Scene remain one of them. The Canadian collective haven&rsqu... Read more »| 26 Apr 2010 -
Music
The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever
Returning with another slab of arena-ready rock come Brooklyn’s The Hold Steady. Craig Finn still expounds bittersweet life lessons over Tad Kubler&rsq... Read more »| 26 Apr 2010 -
Music
Inspector Tapehead @ Roxy Art House, 18 April
The Japanese War Effort, aka Jamie, Martin Moog, HRH The King of Poland, that tall male one out of Conquering Animal Sound etc. etc. is proving to be one of ... Read more »| 26 Apr 2010 -
Theatre
Love and Other Strangers
There are two sides to every story and Colin Garrow’s new comedy Love Song in Sixteen Bars is no exception Read more »| 26 Apr 2010 -
Music
CocoRosie - Grey Oceans
Grey Oceans – the fourth album from the US-born, Paris-based sisters Casady – is a schizophrenic and intense tug o’ war. Eerie open... Read more »| 23 Apr 2010 -
Music
Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Retina EP
Having recovered from troublesome clouds of volcanic sulphur, Scotland faces a far more devastating Icelandic invasion. Though Swedish by nationality, Wildbi... Read more »| 23 Apr 2010 -
Music
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Cosmogramma begins with sledgehammer beats, but quickly mutates. A wafting haze of analogue clicks and dust permeate the veins of this intriguing record, len... Read more »| 23 Apr 2010 -
Music
Hrdvsion - Where Did You Just Go?
Billed as the record on which he embraces the DJ's primary task of pleasing the crowd, Where Did You Just Go? begs another question: just what did Hrdvsion s... Read more »| 23 Apr 2010 -
Music
Eagleowl - Into the Fold EP
Moody and atmospheric, Eagleowl deliver a complex and weighty EP with Into the Fold. Bookended by the doleful title track and sombre but triumphant N... Read more »| 23 Apr 2010