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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MusicbEEdEEgEE – Sum / One
Experimentation is risky by nature, and too often the results can be sloppy, disquieting drivel. On paper, the seemingly attention-deficit audio salad that c... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
MusicPaper Beat Scissors – Paper Beat Scissors
Released back in March 2012 in his adopted home of Canada, Burnley-born songwriter Tim Crabtree belatedly brings his debut album as Paper Beat Scissors to th... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
TheatreScottish Dance Theatre @ Dundee Rep
The Dundee Rep sees a bold double bill by Scottish Dance Theatre (SDT). On their home turf, the dance company presents Second Coming and&... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
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The Pixies / The Jezabels @ Barrowlands, 22 November
In a Glaswegian musical weekend boasting The Pixies, Shellac and noise-rock throw-backs Metz, you could be forgiven for thinking that you had tumbled, ripped... Read more »| 29 Nov 2013 -
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The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 29 November
In today's Bulletin: An update on the Human Is Not Alone project; awesome Christmas-wear from Queens Of The Stone Age; George R.R. Martin discusses Game of Thrones; Ron Reyes leaves Black Flag; Scottish film in trouble; plus the latest Festival news Read more »| 29 Nov 2013 -
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The Bulletin: New Music & Videos | 29 November
A round up of new videos, tracks, mixes and live performances from Wu-Tang Clan, Camera Obscura, James Holden, Daniel Avery, The Pastels, Rustie, Factory Floor, Eminem, Diplo, and The Velvet Underground; plus the latest film trailers Read more »| 29 Nov 2013
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In Hindsight: Songs: Ohia's Magnolia Electric Co. revisited
Following Jason Molina's death earlier this year, Secretly Canadian have reissued 2003's Magnolia Electric Co. album to mark its ten-year anniversary. We reappraise this pivotal moment in the career of an under-appreciated and prodigiously talented figure Read more »| 29 Nov 2013 -
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Dear Reader – We Followed Every Sound
Revisiting recent concept album Rivonia with the help of the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg orchestra, We Followed Every Sound highlights much of what ma... Read more »| 28 Nov 2013 -
Books
The Mile by Craig A. Smith
Craig A. Smith’s debut novel follows three friends on a pub crawl down Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. Ian is a happy family man, Euan is in a crumb... Read more »| 28 Nov 2013 -
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Gold Panda @ East Village Arts Club, Liverpool, 23 November
Following the release of his second album Half of Where You Live in June, Berlin-based, Essex-born producer Gold Panda takes to the stage in Liverpool for th... Read more »| 28 Nov 2013 -
Books
In Rude Health by Robbie Guillory
Humans are a kinky, sexually dysfunctional and - above all - stupid species; just ask any of our frontline healthcare professionals, especially after a drunk... Read more »| 28 Nov 2013 -
MusicEjecta – Dominae
Joel Ford (Tigercity / Ford + Lopatin) joins vocalist Leanne Macomber of Neon Indian for an album of unabashedly retro synth-pop which manages to combine the... Read more »| 28 Nov 2013 -
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There Will Be Fireworks – The Dark, Dark Bright Album Review
For a band intimately familiar with the power of grand crescendos and bristling upsurges, the near silence that followed There Will Be Fireworks’ self-... Read more »| 27 Nov 2013 -
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Hero Worship: Cliff Martinez on Captain Beefheart
Soundtrack composer (Drive, Only God Forgives, Sex, Lies and Videotape) and former drummer for Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Dickies, Cliff Martinez tells us of his lifelong love for Captain Beefheart, and what it was like to work with him Read more »| 27 Nov 2013 -
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New War – New War
“Come to me, oh come to me,” repeats the opening battle chant in Game of Love, over a relentless, accelerating drum salvo, establishing the eerie... Read more »| 27 Nov 2013