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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ClubsChurch of Noise – July 2013
From blissed-out electro to Swiss death metal, we take a whirlwind tour of the more esoteric sounds to be found on the circuit this July Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
FilmStories We Tell
Canadian actor and filmmaker Sarah Polley’s new feature, The Stories We Tell, is as slippery as an eel. It claims to be a documentary, but then so did ... Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – July 2013
It's festival season, but there are plenty of bands still plugging away in the Northwest, including garage rockers Sic Alps, New York duo MS MR and the not to be missed dream-pop of Youth Lagoon Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
ArtIn Pictures: Leith Late 2013
In Pictures: Leith Late 2013 Some images from Leith Late 2013: Photography by David P Scott Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
MusicKanye West – Yeezus
Already this year's most talked-about album, Kanye West's Yeezus came with a rash of promises and boasts from the rapper – as usual, he was going ... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
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Fists – Phantasm
Phantasm won’t be lauded for its originality, channelling as it does a scrappy fuzz-pop sound that’s grown endlessly familiar: a garage-rock... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013
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Music
Gig Highlights – July 2013
As festival madness descends, we present some picks from T in the Park, Wickerman and Kelburn Garden Party, plus very special gigs from Mogwai, Adam Stafford, Ghostpoet, My Jerusalem, Stefan Blomeier and many more Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
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Thundercat – Apocalypse
A funky lovechild of Prince, Frank Zappa, Herbie Hancock and Flying Lotus (the latter incidentally co-produces this album), Thundercat, aka multi-instrumenta... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
Music
O2 Love Music Column – July 2013
Aside from enigmatic front-man Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins are near unrecognisable as a line-up for those who first came to the band via th... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
Music
Daughn Gibson – Me Moan
On All Hell, Daughn Gibson triple-filters country ballads through crackles, loops and warped samples, teasing out an atmospheric production closer to the lik... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
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Benin City – Fires in the Park
Like M.I.A.’s Kala or The Bug’s London Zoo, it’s hard to imagine Fires in the Park’s particular blend of global i... Read more »| 26 Jun 2013 -
Music
Adam Stafford – Imaginary Walls Collapse
This is an album that very nearly never saw the light of day; Adam Stafford, former Y’all Is Fantasy Island main man and a respected solo artist and fi... Read more »| 26 Jun 2013 -
Music
Bell X1 – Chop Chop
For their sixth album, Bell X1 shelve the Talking Heads-aping pop strut and glitchy electronics that flavoured predecessors Blue Lights on the Highway&n... Read more »| 26 Jun 2013 -
Music
Six. By Seven – Love and Peace and Sympathy
Following a brief spell in the limelight in the late 90s with their debut The Things We Make – a record which sat somewhere between Britpop&r... Read more »| 26 Jun 2013 -
Music
Strangers Family Band – Strangers Family Band
Back in 2010, Floridian psychedelic rock quartet Strangers Family Band promised their debut would be a sixteen track concept album in the Sgt Peppers/Vi... Read more »| 26 Jun 2013