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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MusicScottish New Music Round-Up: June 2021
We offer a snapshot of the Scottish releases on offer for Record Store Day this month, and hone in on what else June has in store with releases from HYYTS and Ace City Racers among others Read more »| 03 Jun 2021 -
MusicRecord Store Day 2021: Shop Recommendations
Some of our favourite Scottish record shops pick out their highlights from the 2021 Record Store Day releases Read more »| 03 Jun 2021 -
MusicScotland's record shops on Record Store Day 2021
With record shops open once again and Record Store Day 2021 just around the corner, we chat to some shop owners about how their past year has been and get some of their top RSD recommendations Read more »| 03 Jun 2021 -
MusicGreentea Peng – Man Made
Greentea Peng’s debut album captures a central paradox from the past year: the compulsion to turn inward, and the need to look outward Read more »| 03 Jun 2021 -
MusicRebecca Vasmant – With Love, From Glasgow
On her debut album, Rebecca Vasmant captures the spiritual depths of Glasgow’s jazz scene Read more »| 01 Jun 2021 -
MusicRachel Sermanni – Swallow Me EP
The delicate and daring new EP from Edinburgh’s own Rachel Sermanni finds her embracing the new, fearful but poised Read more »| 01 Jun 2021
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MusicA World So New: 20th anniversary of Since I Left You
As Australia's The Avalanches celebrate 20 years of Since I Left You, we take a fond trip down memory lane and relish in an album that made us think differently about music Read more »| 31 May 2021 -
FilmVictor Kossakovsky on Gunda
The star of the latest documentary from Russian director Victor Kossakovsky is a giant pig named Gunda. He hopes that you look on her and her offspring with respect and compassion, and not just wonder what she'll taste like with apple sauce Read more »| 31 May 2021 -
BooksAbsorbed by Kylie Whitehead
Through its eerie, genre-bending premise, Kylie Whitehead's visceral new novel touches on female insecurity and modern relationship issues Read more »| 31 May 2021 -
MusicJapanese Breakfast – Jubilee
On her third album as Japanese Breakfast, Michelle Zauner moves confidently through a space befitting of the multi-hyphenate artist she has become Read more »| 31 May 2021 -
FilmAfter Love
Joanna Scanlan gets a showcase for her considerable dramatic talents in After Love Read more »| 28 May 2021 -
ArtThe Skinny on... Jimmy Cauty
K-Foundation's Jimmy Cauty brings his new work ESTATE, a dystopian model village experience featuring four abandoned concrete tower blocks at 1:24 scale housed in a 40-foot shipping container, to Scotland this month Read more »| 28 May 2021 -
TheatreWhat's Next for Scotland's Theatres?
Pubs, restaurants, gyms and indoor leisure centres have all opened up for business again this summer. It is essential that theatres, bound by strict social distancing stipulations, don't get left behind Read more »| 28 May 2021 -
BooksInsignificance by James Clammer
James Clammer's novel is a careful exploration of how seismic personal events interact with the minutiae of everyday life Read more »| 28 May 2021 -
BooksResistance by Val McDermid and Kathryn Briggs
Val McDermid and Kathryn Briggs' new graphic novel is a realistic and unsettling look at a fast-spreading pandemic Read more »| 28 May 2021