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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MusicJesca Hoop – Snowglobe EP
Manchester-based, California-born songstress Jesca Hoop may tread with genteel folk footsteps, however her musical associates – legend Tom Waits once e... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
MusicColin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
Having worked with TV on the Radio and Tom Waits, Colin Stetson is one of those musicians who is legendary, it’s just that you don’t know it. Tha... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
MusicExplosions in the Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Because of the often protracted periods between albums, a new Explosions record always brings with it a mixture of expectation and trepidation, but this&hell... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
Music
Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
Expectations in the rock fraternity surrounding Wasting Light, the seventh long player from Dave Grohl’s Foo Fighters, have been reaching fever pitch. ... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
MusicCold Cave – Cherish the Light Years
The follow-up to 2009’s acclaimed debut Love Comes Close sees the New York-based Cold Cave continue to hone their addictive, irrepressible take on 80s ... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
Music
Alexi Murdoch – Towards the Sun
Recorded predominately in a single night, Towards the Sun is the kind of neo-folk album that causes Pitchfork writers to suffer terminal priapisms. Murdoch p... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011
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Music
Glasvegas – EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\
So here we go again, the difficult flipside to the great debut, as inevitable as glorious Scottish sporting failure. Euphoria and heartbreak, right e... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
Comedy
Simon Munnery: "This show has formed like sedimentary rock, through immense periods of time and pressure"
Simon Munnery tell us about the loop of alternativism Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
Film
Faster
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has decided to ditch his recent demeaning, family friendly roles in favour of this retro revenge flick with a gritty 70... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
MusicWeedeater – Jason... The Dragon
If there’s one thing Weedeater are, it’s reliable. Well, that and loud. Then again, so are dozens of other sludge bands, but they just don’... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
Music
letlive – Fake History
The post-hardcore/screamo tag wasn’t always a negative one. It used to be applied to bands who displayed an excess of energy that happened to be expres... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
Music
Bearsuit – The Phantom Forest
Bearsuit are one of the last bands you'd associate with maturity, but that is nonetheless what the Norwich indie-electro outfit seem to be grappling with on ... Read more »| 23 Mar 2011 -
Music
Roddy Woomble – The Impossible Song & Other Songs
Picking up where 2006’s My Secret Is My Silence left off, Roddy Woomble’s second solo effort sees him travelling further into folky territory. Wh... Read more »| 23 Mar 2011 -
Music
Tindersticks – Claire Denis Film Scores 1996-2009
Over two decades, Nottingham’s Tindersticks have won hearts and minds with their idiosyncratic brand of brooding elegance, while across the channel, Cl... Read more »| 23 Mar 2011 -
Art
Satellite @ East Kilbride Arts Centre
The five artists that make up the collective Satellite visit the remote plains of Daer reservoir in South Lanarkshire. A small gallery in out-of-the-way East... Read more »| 23 Mar 2011