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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MusicCHVRCHES on new album Love Is Dead
Ahead of a busy summer schedule, we speak with Lauren Mayberry and Martin Doherty, two thirds of Glasgow synth pop trio CHVRCHES, about latest album Love Is Dead, recording in America and Girls Rock Glasgow Read more »| 21 May 2018 -
MusicScott Hutchison: A Tribute
As we come to grips with the loss of Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison, a few pals of ours and Scott's share some happy memories, tributes and messages of comfort Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
TheatreMa, Pa and the Little Mouths @ Traverse Theatre
This collaboration between the Tron Theatre and the National Theatre of Scotland has produced a dark, surreal and excessively absurd play. Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
Film
Deadpool 2
Ryan Reynolds' sarcastic superhero return is an improvement on the original, but it's still nowhere near as subversive as it thinks it is Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
Music
All Points East 2018: Festival Preview
Ahead of the inaugural All Points East festival, we take a look at ten acts you'd be out of your mind to miss, from LCD Soundsystem and Björk to Hookworms and Young Fathers Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
MusicQuiet Slang – Everything Matters But No One Is Listening
If you're a huge fan of Beach Slang already, you'll likely find more than enough to love about these candlelit versions of some of the band's most popular songs Read more »| 18 May 2018
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Music
TT – LoveLaws
On her first solo album under the TT name, Warpaint's Theresa Wayman reveals the slippery, shimmering quality of her songwriting Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
MusicModern Studies – Welcome Strangers
Welcome Strangers feels like Modern Studies at their most ambitious, as abstract as it is accessible and as complex as it is beautifully simple Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
Music
Remember Sports – Slow Buzz
After a name change and the addition of a new drummer, Remember Sports (fka SPORTS) fully arrive with lo-fi fuzz full of heartache Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
Music
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Sparkle Hard
Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus returns with an album overflowing with hooks, and a hint of grace and gravitas Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
Art
Dundee Degree Show 2018: Brilliantly bizarre
A brilliant showcase of work by Dundee's most exciting artists at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) degree show Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
Music
The Motion Poets – A Girl Like This (Video Premiere)
Edinburgh indie-grunge quartet The Motion Poets share their latest video, for new track A Girl Like This Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
Music
Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!
There is rather a lot to be angry about right now, but with Wide Awake! Parquet Courts remind us to dance and have a good time, despite the impending apocalypse Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
Music
Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel
There's no sign of a sophomore slump on Tell Me How You Really Feel, an album that doesn't better Courtney Barnett's stellar debut, but certainly does no harm to her burgeoning oeuvre Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
Theatre
Gut @ Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Frances Poet's first full-length play packs a visceral punch, taking on issues of trust, fear and creeping unease Read more »| 17 May 2018