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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MusicTeam Ghost – Celebrate What You Can’t See EP
Following on from this year’s earlier EP You Never Did Anything Wrong To Me, former M83 founder Nicolas Fromageau and ‘sparring partner’ Ch... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
MusicWino – Adrift
As he approaches fifty, metal stalwart and doom-progenitor Scott ‘Wino’ Weinrich apparently fancies himself a singer-songwriter of the Cash/Dylan... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
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Kurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell Present Kort – Invariable Heartache
As musical partnerships go, Kurts and Cortneys go together less like a horse and carriage than a horse and a grunge Yoko prone to worrying Twitter-spasms. We... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
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Gold Panda: Well Groomed
One of the golden boys (excuse the pun) of 2010, Essex beatsmith Gold Panda talks about sampling, Ghostly International and the progress of his live show Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
MusicSquarepusher presents Shobaleader One – d'Demonstrator
Whether or not its highly dubious back-story is a smoke screen (allegedly Shobaleader One is a band formed by Tom Jenkinson together with a bunch of ... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
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The Last Battle – Heart of the Land, Soul of the Sea
For a band of six, Edinburgh’s The Last Battle sport a frail, minimal sound on debut album Heart of the Land, Soul of the Sea, based almost entirely on... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010
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Film
Brother
“You Japanese are so inscrutable”. It is a relief when a character says this in Brother for Beat Takeshi always has me reaching for the thesaurus... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
MusicGlasser – Ring
Glasser is Cameron Mesirow, a precociously gifted songwriter who, in crude splicing terms, evokes a Bat For Lashes/Dirty Projectors love affair on her revela... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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Iain Campbell – ABSOLUTELY the best ABBA since ABBA
With numerous high-profile and high-concept multi-media performances and exhibitions now under his belt, the man formerly trading under the moniker +Do-NEIMA... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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The Phantom Band – The Wants
Following on from last years’ blindsiding debut Checkmate Savage, feral Glaswegian sextet The Phantom Band have wasted precious little time in surfing ... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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Belle & Sebastian – Write About Love
If the near-five year wait since The Life Pursuit and last year’s brilliant brace of albums from Camera Obscura and Butcher Boy led you to question Bel... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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Warpaint – The Fool
Court martial! On charges of worst band-related misnomer since Mogwai entitled a post-rock album Happy Songs for Happy People. Los Angeles all-lady four-piec... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
Music
Track-by-track: The Phantom Band's Guide to The Wants
Strap yourself in as robo-folk's finest follow-up last year's inventive opus, Checkmate Savage this month. Track-by-track, The Phantom Band unveil The Wants... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
Music
Swans: The Ecstatic
The Phantom Band's Rick Anthony engages Michael Gira, mainstay of recently resurrected New York no wave crusaders Swans and founder of Young God Records Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
Music
Ice Cube: "I never left the game, the game’s trying to leave me"
From his furious beginnings with NWA to a latter-day rebirth as the lord of light family entertainment, this month Ice Cube returns to answer the critics who say Hollywood has diminished his edge Read more »| 28 Sep 2010