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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FilmG.I. Joe: Retaliation
Jon M. Chu (Step Up 2: The Streets) has managed to produce something even more stupid than Stephen Sommers’ trashy first cinematic outing for Hasbro&rs... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
MusicFutureEverything @ Islington Mill, 20-23 Mar
At the festival launch, as we probe our amuse-bouches and survey the city from the eighth floor of NOMA53 – that beached blue alien just off Rochdale R... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
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Vondelpark – Seabed
When you're stuck in the spaces in-between – on journeys home at uncomfortable dawns, in cold living rooms at the wrong end of the morning – you'... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
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Kurt Vile – Wakin On a Pretty Daze
Album five brings with it a watershed moment in Kurt Vile’s career. Before even pressing play, the vivid colour saturation of the cover and extended tr... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
MusicTrwbador – Trwbador
Since forming in 2010, Carmarthenshire’s Trwbador (aka Welsh-Dutch singer Angharad Van Rijswijk and guitarist/producer Owain Gwilym) have forged a dist... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
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Roddy Woomble – Listen to Keep
The sleeve for Listen to Keep includes a snap of Roddy Woomble relaxing by a fireplace, shoes off and feet up. The music, meanwhile, evidences Woom... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013
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Major Lazer – Free The Universe
Once upon a time Diplo made visionary, psychedelic hip-hop music infused with ragga vocals, artfully distressed samples, and a mercurial approach to beats th... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
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Loch Lomond – Dresses
Now in its tenth year of existence, Ritchie Young’s Loch Lomond project has grown and receded through many guises, moving from solo beginnings to becom... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
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Dear Reader – Rivonia
Dear Reader (the nom-de-plume of South African songwriter Cherilyn MacNeil) has named third album Rivonia after the Johannesburg neighbourhood she ... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
MusicDolor – Misteria
Dolor's first official solo release on new label Technicolour doesn't disappoint, after his strong collaboration with Lorn on their Drugs mixtapes – th... Read more »| 26 Mar 2013 -
MusicIsrael Martinez – The Minutes
Comprised of field recordings and samples gathered by Martinez in Mexico and looped, arranged and mutated into a series of ambient reflections on space, moti... Read more »| 26 Mar 2013 -
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Midas Fall – Wilderness
The glitchy laptop beats and sparse, guitar-based atmospherics on Midas Fall's second full-length puts them neatly in line with label-mates 65daysofstatic, b... Read more »| 26 Mar 2013 -
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Stone Sour – House of Gold & Bones Part II
The extent to which Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor's “other band” Stone Sour have evolved and matured over the years is undoubtedly impressive; t... Read more »| 26 Mar 2013 -
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Oliver Deutschmann – Out of the Dark
Where Detroit techno meets its modern descendants, being made and played in techno's current spiritual heartland of Berlin, you'll find producer/DJ Oliver De... Read more »| 26 Mar 2013 -
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Hey Colossus – Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo
Member changes aside (Tim Cedar from the dearly departed Part Chimp now assumes drumming duties here), the prolific Hey Colossus hold on to their strengths w... Read more »| 26 Mar 2013