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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FilmPain & Gain
Michael Bay has never given the impression of being a filmmaker particularly interested in irony. His bombastic oeuvre features all the self-awareness of you... Read more »| 26 Aug 2013 -
MusicBlondes @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 24 Aug
In an age where electronic music is saturated by bar after bar of aesthetic perfection, the mounting exposure that Brooklyn electronic two-piece Blondes &nda... Read more »| 26 Aug 2013 -
Music
Drumcell – Sleep Complex
Constructed lovingly on analogue equipment (the TR-909, TR-808 and TB-303 all feature heavily), and with a final bass-oriented mixdown by Frankfurt-based tec... Read more »| 24 Aug 2013 -
MusicThe Dodos – Carrier
It may still only be August, but going by the number of cosy autumnal folk bands sniffing out of their burrows, the leaves must be falling already. To be fai... Read more »| 24 Aug 2013 -
MusicJackson & His Computerband – Glow
A welcome return from Jackson Fourgeaud, who has been quiet since 2005's Smash. The results are impressively eclectic, taking in psych-rock on opener Blow, p... Read more »| 23 Aug 2013 -
Film
Lovelace
A very strong performance from Amanda Seyfried anchors this biopic of the most notorious period of Linda Boreman’s life, that of her troubled marriage ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2013
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Film
House of Usher
With a clang from a leaden door knocker, the first of Roger Corman’s eight Edgar Allan Poe treatments creaks open unpromisingly, wreathed in sickly mis... Read more »| 23 Aug 2013 -
Music
Allah-Las @ Leaf, Liverpool, 21 Aug
“Out on the water, where you gonna find me,” sings Miles Michaud, evoking the dreamy shores of California, from where this Los Angeles quartet ha... Read more »| 23 Aug 2013 -
MusicParadigm Shift: Until The Music Stops
In the second of our three-part series on the arts, we speak to a range of leading lights from all tiers of the independent music industry about labels, revenue and sustainability in the digital age. Is this a brave new world, or a broken dystopia? Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Art
Dénes Farkas, Estonian Pavilion @ Venice Biennale
With a practice defined in the press release as 'meaningful meaningless,' the premise of Dénes Farkas' contribution to the Estonian pavilion is painfu... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Books
Play With Me by Michael Pedersen
By turns elegiac, nostalgic, hilarious and deeply serious, Michael Pedersen's debut poetry collection, Play With Me, marks the arrival of an important new vo... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Film
Elysium
South Africa-set District 9 had a clear apartheid allegory built into its hyper-violent sci-fi stylings, and writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s follow-up... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Art
Ed Atkins @ The Encyclopedic Palace, Venice Biennale
The Trick Brain takes as its starting point a section of archival footage filmed in Andre Breton's Parisian home following his death in 1966. Cluttered with ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
Music
One Step Back, Two Steps Forward: Shigeto in interview
Zach Shigeto Saginaw needed a fresh start after time spent in New York and London; but – as he tells The Skinny – he found it in one of the most unlikely places Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Music
Swans / Buke and Gase @ The Liquid Room, 13 August
Hearing protection at gigs is a common enough sight among the more safety conscious. For Swans though, day-glo foam ear plugs are considered a pre-requisite ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013