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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ArtFrieze your tits off
First and foremost, Frieze Art Fair is about looking at people. It is a warren of voyeurism. The art – glitzy, unaffordable, and on the whole, mediocre... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
MusicPumajaw - Featherdown Quilt
The latest offering from the now Fife-based enigmas is a far cry from the neo-folk scene they have been so uncomfortably shoehorned into by baffled listeners... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
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Crocodiles @ Stereo, 19 Oct
With grizzly bear flags of the California Republic draped proudly over their amps, San Diego’s latest burp of youthful boredom, recently enlarged from ... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
MusicLove Pumajaw Hate Racism
Love Music Hate Racism is an initiative dating back to 2002, launched as a counter-response to a perceived rise in levels of racism and the undeniably growin... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
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All Tomorrow's Parties
From the humble origins of Pontin’s holiday camp, the now global All Tomorrow's Parties festival continues to stay free of corporate sponsorship. Th... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
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Broken Records - Out On The Water EP
After all the column inches dedicated to them, it’s easy to forget that Broken Records are a relatively new band. A single album into their careers, an... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009
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FilmSéraphine
In the town of Senlis, 1914, a middle-aged cleaning lady and washerwoman spends her free moments collecting brush and seeds, animal blood and church candle-o... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
Music
Casiokids @ Electric Circus, 6 Oct
Toddler-like grins hang on the faces of the five Casiokids and the quickening beats of Togens Hule soon turn the venue into a bouncing playground of fun. Thu... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
MusicPelican - What We All Come to Need
What We All Come to Need could be construed as an assuming title. When ascribing the idea of necessity to one’s own project, one risks abject failure, ... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
Music
The Hidden Cameras - Origin: Orphan
By all means applaud the ambition, just don’t expect it to have any substance Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
Music
Omar Rodriguez-López - Xenophanes
The solo work of Omar Rodriguez-López can vary wildly from sheer noise (see Despair) to records considered as Mars Volta releases in everything but n... Read more »| 20 Oct 2009 -
Music
Espers – III
If any genre of music epitomized the late 1960s it was psychedelic folk. The meeting of acoustic guitars and trippy boundary pushing seems rooted in those fe... Read more »| 20 Oct 2009 -
Music
Daniel Johnston - Is And Always Was
Iconic outsider artist upgrades from the bedroom to the studio to pleasingly excellent effect. Read more »| 20 Oct 2009 -
Music
Pelican: Movement for Change
With the weight of the future bearing down on them, can Pelican change gears and run with the big boys of post-metal? Read more »| 20 Oct 2009 -
Music
Yo La Tengo: Popular People?
They've been around for years yet the critics continue to fall for Yo La Tengo with every new release. The New Jersey trio are prolific, achingly cool, but somehow not quite 'famous'. Ira Kaplan ponders mainstream success, alternative career paths and the death of music journalism. Read more »| 20 Oct 2009