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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MusicThe Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
Even though The Decemberists have been lobbed in the "folk rock" musical genre since they broke out with debut album Castaways and Cutouts nearly eight years... Read more »| 05 Mar 2009 -
MusicCondo Fucks - Fuckbook
Yo La Tengo have spent the past 20-odd years making an art form out of goofing off, and this month the trio release an album of covers (their third) under th... Read more »| 05 Mar 2009 -
Music
Friska Viljor - Tour De Hearts
Hot on the heels of Ida Maria and Lykke Li come Friska Viljor with another masterclass in Swedish pop excellence. The duo’s second album draws elements... Read more »| 05 Mar 2009 -
BooksHighlights of Aye Write!
Glasgow's literary festival is back. Read more »| 05 Mar 2009 -
MusicLeo Abrahams - The Grape And The Grain
Rumour has it that Brian Eno strolled into a record store and caught sight of Leo Abrahams having a strum on a new guitar - and lamented The Edge’s com... Read more »| 05 Mar 2009 -
Music
Micachu and the Shapes - Jewellery
From grime mixtapes, learning difficulties and running experimental music nights while at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, it would be very easy for ... Read more »| 05 Mar 2009
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Film
The Age of Stupid
Pete Postlethwaite plays 'the archivist', alone in 2055 after humankind's decimation by global warming. The cinema screen becomes his VDU, as he drags and dr... Read more »| 05 Mar 2009 -
Music
Metallica: Flint & Weiland Question Hammett
Ahead of Metallica's eagerly anticipated return to Glasgow this month, lead guitarist Kirk Hammett fields key questions from The Prodigy's Keith Flint and St... Read more »| 04 Mar 2009 -
Theatre
High Tease
Burlesque is slowly emerging as a multi-faceted form. Gareth K Vile checks out the high end of the market. Read more »| 04 Mar 2009 -
TheatreScottish Opera Five:15
Scottish Opera continue to explore new ways of making high art accessible to new audiences. Read more »| 04 Mar 2009 -
Music
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Beware
I'm not so sure Will Oldham is as 'Bonnie' as his alter-ego might suggest, and the murky habitat of many songs on this album seems to confirm the suspicion. ... Read more »| 04 Mar 2009 -
Music
DOOM vs. Dilla: A Posthumous Collaboration
Hip-hop in 2009 is to be showered with releases by J Dilla and (formerly MF) DOOM. Since Dilla’s death in February 2006, all manner of album reissues h... Read more »| 04 Mar 2009 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen - March, 2009
This month's dozen includes Mancunian rock, weird folk and... Dutch soul. But is any of it any good? Nick Mitchell will be the judge Read more »| 04 Mar 2009 -
Comedy
Laughing Horse New Act of the Year Competition: Ones to watch
Last weekend saw four heats over two nights of the Laughing Horse New Act Competition 2009. As a judge at the shows, Lizzie Cass-Maran brings you her pick of the acts to watch. Read more »| 04 Mar 2009 -
Music
Jamie T @ King Tut's, 28 Feb
When King Hats (****) frontman Alan Power takes to the stage mewling through a megaphone, it's hard not to fear the worst. However, appearances aside (NB: pi... Read more »| 04 Mar 2009