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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FilmSicario
With one leading Republican nominee currently bloviating about building a "giant wall" between the US and Mexico, Sicario feels like a timely critique of Ame... Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
FilmSeconds
There’s a good reason this paranoid thriller bombed at the 1966 box office – it’s possibly the bleakest film ever made. John Frankenheimer&... Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
ArtScottish Art News: October 2015
Art highlights for October: the Turner Prize comes to Glasgow, plus Adrian Morris and Hideyuki Katsumata. Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
Music
In Session: Outblinker – 'Orange'
Ahead of their appearance at the Pleasance Sessions next weekend (Saturday, 9 October) alongside Blanck Mass, BDY_PRTS and RM Hubbert, we joined Outblinker i... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
Music
Jeff Mills – Exhibitionist 2
11 years on from the pioneering original, Jeff Mills releases his long-awaited sequel Exhibitionist 2. This latest release provides a detailed look into Mills’ techno artistry via: DJ mixes, studio jamming, and 909 workouts Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
Music
Joanna Gruesome @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 23 September
Definitely not a band for Daily Mail readers, The Spook School’s forthcoming opus Try To Be Hopeful is a treatise on the politics and practicalities of... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015
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Music
Alex G – Beach Music
Alex Giannascoli pens songs like it’s some kind of bodily reflex; swift, spontaneous and essential. Beach Music is his seventh album in five years, and... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
Music
Deerhunter – Fading Frontier
Two tracks into Faded Frontier and Deerhunter's Bradford Cox makes his intentions clear. 'I'm out of range,' he sighs over a looping refrain which reite... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
Music
Blackalicious – Imani Vol. 1
After nearly 20 years in the game, it seems almost platitudinous to peg Gift of Gab as one of rap's most underrated sons. Yet it’s a label which seems ... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
Music
Evil Blizzard – Everybody Come to Church
Prowler, Stomper, Side, Kav and Filthydirty (sic) – no, not the cast of a Teletubbies reboot, but Evil Blizzard – Preston’s masked, primary... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – October 2015
While October may be the month for kissing any few remnant sunny days goodbye, burying heads in textbooks, and carving pumpkins in preparation for Halloween,... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
MusicProtomartyr – The Agent Intellect
As a self-proclaimed mumbler, Joe Casey frequently obscures his lyrics with drawls and gritted teeth, while gothic shards – echoing Joy Division’... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
Books
The Life-Writer by David Constantine
Frank O' Connor Short Story Award winner David Constantine returns with new novel The Life-Writer Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
Music
The Spook School – Try To Be Hopeful
“We need you to know that we exist,” sing The Spook School. It’s a sentiment which could come from the mouth of any band ever, but in the h... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
Music
Indian Handcrafts – Creeps
The Canadian pairing of Brandyn James Aikens and Daniel Brandon Allen might have been cursed with the least rock 'n' roll names in history and they cert... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015