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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ClubsTri-Angle Records presents a mix from new signing SD Laika
SD Laika, whose 2012 debut Unkown Vectors was released on Visionist's Lost Codes label, recently signed to Brooklyn undeground electronic label Tri-Angle Records. This week he shared a dark, claustrophobic mix entitled Idiot Thug Read more »| 09 Jan 2014 -
MusicWarpaint: 'The pop world? We're not even in that universe'
Returning this month with a bewitching second album and a couple of iconic collaborators at their back, Jenny Lee Lindberg and Stella Mozgawa say Warpaint are in it for the long haul Read more »| 09 Jan 2014 -
FilmFilm News: Mark Frost dismisses Twin Peaks rumours, plus the latest trailers
Today's film news: Mark Frost denies Twin Peaks rumours, plus trailers for Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer, and Sharlto Copley in Open Grave Read more »| 09 Jan 2014 -
Music
What Difference Does It Make? A documentary featuring James Murphy and Brian Eno
What Difference Does It Make? A Film About Making Music is the new feature-length documentary from Red Bull Music Academy, featuring Brian Eno, James Murphy and many more Read more »| 09 Jan 2014 -
FilmNo More Mr Nice Guy: Michael Cera and Sebastián Silva on Crystal Fairy & the Magical Catcus
DiCaprio has Scorsese, Depp has Burton, Gosling has Winding Refn. We speak to a more low-key actor/director team, Michael Cera and Sebastián Silva, who are bringing a pair of excellent movies to UK screens in 2014 Read more »| 09 Jan 2014 -
Music
Strife's What You Make It: East India Youth on his prodigious debut
A chance encounter with a reluctant label boss sent electronic prodigy East India Youth on an unexpected trip. William Doyle tells us about his long-incubating debut and the ongoing struggle to stop impulse trashing his MacBook Read more »| 08 Jan 2014
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Film
Film News: David Lynch Twin Peaks rumours; Sundance and Cannes news; Bryan Singer talks X-Men: Apocalypse
A round-up of film news: Those David Lynch Twin Peaks rumours examined; Beastie Boys and Death Cab for Cutie score films for Sundance; Jane Campion to head up Cannes jury; Bryan Singer on X-Men: Apocalypse, plus the latest trailers Read more »| 08 Jan 2014 -
Music
Warpaint – Warpaint
Warpaint founder Theresa Wayman’s assertion that the follow-up to The Fool would be a minimalist affair is made flesh on this, the LA quartet’s s... Read more »| 08 Jan 2014 -
Music
Download a free compilation from Armellodie Records
Superlative Glasgow-based indie label Armellodie have released a free compilation as a taste of what we can expect from them in 2014, and to showcase some of... Read more »| 08 Jan 2014 -
FilmRiddick
After the ambitious first sequel to Pitch Black failed, you can see why producers would want to return to familiar territory, but something still isn’t... Read more »| 08 Jan 2014 -
Clubs
Reopening the Star Dancer Portal: The GSA Reborn
DJs, live acts and, er... Red Dwarf. The team behind Croc v Croc reveal their plans for the relaunch of The Art School Read more »| 08 Jan 2014 -
Film
The Great Beauty
In The Great Beauty’s sublimely grand overture, a smiling tourist snaps the Roman skyline then suddenly falls, as if overwhelmed by the splendour of th... Read more »| 08 Jan 2014 -
Film
Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus
Consider Michael Cera’s recent film roles. There’s two-timing Scott (Scott Pilgrim vs the World), schizophrenic womaniser Nick (Youth in Revolt),... Read more »| 08 Jan 2014 -
Film
Museum Hours
In this documentary-fiction hybrid, a guard (Sommer) at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum strikes up a friendship with a lonely Canadian tourist (O&rsq... Read more »| 08 Jan 2014 -
Music
Father Murphy – Pain is On Our Side Now
Tackled individually, the four movements that make up Father Murphy’s latest EP are formidably severe: an atonal collection of clanging semi-rhythms, d... Read more »| 08 Jan 2014