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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MusicLoch Lomond/The Builders and the Butchers - Split 12"
Demonstrating Scottish label Song By Toad’s talent-spotting credentials, this 12” combines two acts plucked from Portland’s teeming music s... Read more »| 23 Oct 2009 -
MusicThe Gothenburg Address - The Gothenburg Address
The Gothenburg Address have two on guitars, one on bass, one on drums and zero on vocals; looks like it’s time to dig out the Post-Rock Thesaurus. So, ... Read more »| 23 Oct 2009 -
MusicSufjan Stevens/Osso - Run Rabbit Run
Enjoy Your Rabbit occupies a unique place in Sufjan Stevens’ discography due to its Chinese calendar (rather than US geography) theme and a glitchy ele... Read more »| 23 Oct 2009 -
MusicCuddly Shark - Cuddly Shark
This album would make more sense if it was made by a group of long-haired, intensely trendy, drug-hungry young dudes from Brooklyn or Austin, Texas, and if i... Read more »| 23 Oct 2009 -
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Converge - Axe to Fall
The undisputed kings of modern progressive hardcore Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
MusicFuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Arriving hot on the heels of last year’s gloriously hypnotic skull-rattling debut Street Horrrsing, the quick turnaround of Fuck Buttons’ second ... Read more »| 22 Oct 2009
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Music
Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
If La Roux and her silly quiff and slices of radio-friendly synth-pop hark back to the frivolity of the early eighties, Cold Cave summon up the darker spirit... Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
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Mudhoney at HMV Picture House, 9 Oct
Tonight’s homage to the fuzz pedal begins in earnest as St Deluxe knuckle down to the business of evoking Dinosaur Jr at their eardrum-popping best. Wi... Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
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North Atlantic Oscillation - Callsigns EP
Edinburgh trio's introductory EP whets the appetite for an already recorded debut album Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
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2562 - Unbalance
It’s dubstep, but not as Streatham or Croydon would know it. This second album from the Hague-based 2562 takes the blueprint of monstrous, murky bass, ... Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
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Miike Snow: Beyond Toxic
Miike Snow's Christian Karlsson has enjoyed great success writing music for pop superstars, but he says it's not as much fun as being in his own band. Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
Clubs
Move to the Dollskabeat
After the release of her debut single Zodiac Rising, Dollskabeat is receiving some well deserved attention. Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
Art
Saatchi New Sensations: A First Hand Account
A nation-wide talent search has brought us the new art stars as defined by Charles Saatchi. ECA graduate Richard Cook, one of the lucky few to make it to the live final, tells us what it was like to be in the eye of the storm. Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
Film
Warming up for GFF 2010
Here’s our sneak peek at what the UK’s most innovative film festival has lined-up for 2010. Read more »| 22 Oct 2009 -
Music
Bat For Lashes / Yeasayer @ HMV Picture House, 20 Oct
After guesting on Bat For Lashes’ new-ish album, Brooklyn band Yeasayer were an obvious choice of support for this tour. Whether the audience knows it ... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009