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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MusicBenjamin Gibbard – Former Lives
If the key to unlocking former lives is regression, Ben Gibbard’s solo debut is perfectly titled: there’s scant sign of progress or advancement i... Read more »| 02 Nov 2012 -
MusicP.O.S. – We Don't Even Live Here
Doomtree co-founder P.O.S. brings another sonically dense alt-rap assault with his fourth LP, and although the synth-heavy palette he's working with this tim... Read more »| 02 Nov 2012 -
Music
Clinic – Free Reign
Now on their seventh LP, Clinic’s career has spanned a period in which rock that combines innovation and poppiness has become increasingly thin on th... Read more »| 02 Nov 2012 -
Music
No Division: Chuck Ragan on The Revival Tour
Now in its fifth year, Hot Water Music's Chuck Ragan explains The Revival Tour's communal power Read more »| 02 Nov 2012 -
MusicNeil Halstead – Palindrome Hunches
On Palindrome Hunches’ penultimate song, Hey Daydreamer, Neil Halstead asserts the persistence of his idealistic outlook: "I don’t wanna be jus... Read more »| 02 Nov 2012 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Iain Hales
Showcase: Iain Hales Iain Hales is a Scottish artist currently living and working in London. He completed his BA in Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art in... Read more »| 01 Nov 2012
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ArtThe Skinny Shop & Platform 7 @ Dickens Gallery, Liverpool 1-25 Nov
This November a unique exhibition is arriving in Liverpool; a collaboration between The Skinny and Somewhereto_, two organisations united by a love of emerge... Read more »| 01 Nov 2012 -
Music
In Pictures: Alice Cooper's Halloween Night of Fear III @ The Usher Hall, 31 October
Alice Cooper's Halloween Night of Fear III Legendary shock rocker Alice Cooper's annual Halloween fest rolls through Edinburgh Usher Hall. Photography by&n... Read more »| 01 Nov 2012 -
Film
New New Hollywood: From the Margins to the Mainstream
With new releases this month from David O. Russell and Paul Thomas Anderson, key figures in the unofficial mid-90s renaissance of American film, The Skinny looks back at their generation's wave of subversive upstarts, the New New Hollywood Read more »| 01 Nov 2012 -
MusicTim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin – Instrumental Tourist
The first of a series of proposed collaborations scheduled for release on the Software label finds these two kindred spirits embracing ‘jazz-based imp... Read more »| 01 Nov 2012 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen – November 2012
Ahead of this month's Scottish tour with Bill Wells, noted no-nonsense 2am Twitter pop critic Aidan Moffat pops by to give the November singles the long-form review treatment. Yes: we take requests... Read more »| 01 Nov 2012 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: November 2012 Horoscopes
ARIES Your soul is so jam-packed and weighed down with demons that your local witch-doctor finally classifies it as ‘morbidly obese.’ You should ... Read more »| 01 Nov 2012 -
Music
Season of the Witch: Rob Zombie's co-headling tour with Marilyn Manson comes to Scotland
With a new feature film and a giant stage production headed for these shores, Rob Zombie talks The Lords of Salem and the touring buddy who wants to kick his ass Read more »| 31 Oct 2012 -
Film
Margin Call
"Remember this day, boys, remember this day." When a young analyst at a sleek, Wall Street investment firm discovers that the mathematical model they have ba... Read more »| 31 Oct 2012 -
Books
Wriiters' Bloc: The Real Dead Poets' Society
A seance for writers on Halloween? Could it be? Who would dare? Writers Bloc would. Texture from Writers Bloc fills us in. Read more »| 31 Oct 2012