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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TheatreLet The Right One In @ Dundee Rep, 5-29 Jun
The original was a dark, weighty slice of Swedish horror and the American adaptation was surprisingly competent. It begs the question: where is there left to... Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
MusicRose Windows – The Sun Dogs
This Seattle septet anchor their sound in the shamanistic explorations and bruising riffs of psych and stoner rock: the sonic texture of The Sun Dogs&nb... Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
MusicSerengeti – Kenny Dennis LP
Serengeti's last LP for Anticon, C.A.R., had a refreshing sense of fun and humour to its loosely-scribbled hip-hop beats, with Jel and Odd Nosdam joining Ser... Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
MusicPalms – Palms
Despite escalating popularity at the time they called it quits, there’s a feeling that ISIS – not wishing to "push past the point of a digni... Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
Music
Dope Body survey June's singles
Prior to a night of fierce sweating, Baltimore noise-rockers (and March 'Track of the Month' champions) Dope Body try to muster some love for this month’s offerings, and debate whether or not that’s a marimba in there Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Art
Matthew Denniss: Future Imperfect
A joint exhibition at Manchester's Bureau gallery, The Utopian Buck Stops Here sees Matthew Denniss inspect the dreams – and failings – of modernist architecture Read more »| 04 Jun 2013
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Music
Stag & Dagger 2013: Glasgow, 18 May
Though its sights were initially set on a healthy mix of hotly tipped buzz bands and home-grown underdogs, Glasgow's annual Stag & Dagger festival has ti... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Art
Carol Bove @ The Common Guild, until 29 Jun
Carol Bove’s show The Foamy Saliva of a Horse seems in many ways typical of Common Guild fare. The installation takes various small-scale objects, made... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Film
Opinion: There's Nowt So Queer As Labels
You'll have seen the headlines: 'Lesbian Film Wins Palme d'Or.' But why do only same-sex love stories have their orientation declared? Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
FilmAguirre, Herzog and The Secret Mainstream
A screening of Aguirre: Wrath of God in a newly restored print offers the chance enjoy anew Werner Herzog's 1972 classic Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Theatre
Blue Monday: The Library Theatre Company present Manchester Sound: The Massacre
Presenting two pivotal points in history – the Peterloo Massacre and the explosion of rave culture – the Library Theatre Company’s new site-specific work Manchester Sound: The Massacre takes us to a secret location in search of independence and freedom Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Music
Congo Natty – Jungle Revolution
The press release for Jungle Revolution states that Congo Natty (aka Rebel MC) ‘sees jungle as a re-boot of roots reggae for a new century&rs... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Film
Joss Whedon on Much Ado About Nothing
We speak to director, writer and wannabe stuntman Joss Whedon about his switch from Avengers' billion dollar comic-book franchise to Much Ado About Nothing, the low budget Shakespeare adaptation he shot in and around his Santa Monica home Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Music
Tunng – Turbines
Frontiersmen and women of the ‘folktronica’ movement, Tunng have long blended gentle, well-rounded folk melodies with morsels of twee electronic ... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Music
Toro y Moi talks Arthur Russell and astral jazz
Over the course of three albums, Chaz Bundick – or Toro y Moi – has revealed himself as something of an anorak, drawing on everything from house to R'n'B. He talks to us about Arthur Russell and astral jazz, and bemoans our lack of modern-day pop auteurs Read more »| 04 Jun 2013