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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MusicChrome Hoof's Book of Prog
Don’t know your Bartok chamber prog from a creepy Italian horror score? Let Leo Smee of progressive 'disco metal' orchestra Chrome Hoof shine a light Read more »| 02 Jul 2010 -
MusicWoodenbox With A Fistful Of Fivers: For A Few Fivers More
Over the past few years, Woodenbox has expanded to incorporate new collaborators, old friends, many horns and five extra words. Ali Downer explains why Read more »| 02 Jul 2010 -
MusicThe Dirty Dozen – July 2010
After too many months of letting rock stars have their say, Darren Carle retreats to his listening chamber and takes the Dozen back to its roots Read more »| 02 Jul 2010 -
Film
Joann Sfar on Gainsbourg
Graphic novelist Joann Sfar discusses his ambitious directorial debut Gainsbourg, an unconventional biopic of the iconic artist Read more »| 02 Jul 2010 -
MusicMilk @ Captain's Rest, 27 Jun
Masked and taped, The Organs of Love resemble porno superheroes, all sighs and doped-up electro. Despite echoes of Smoke City’s Underwater Love (mermai... Read more »| 01 Jul 2010 -
Music
Common Prayer – There Is a Mountain
The latest project of ex-Mercury Rev bassist and Hopewell founder Jason Sebastian Russo begins eponymously with commonprayer, an endearingly rickety shuffle ... Read more »| 01 Jul 2010
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Film
Tetro
Francis Ford Coppola is in his 70s now, but Tetro feels like a young man's film. It's a deeply personal picture that's overflowing with exuberance an... Read more »| 30 Jun 2010 -
Music
Mitchell Museum – The Peters Port Memorial Service
Glasgow’s Mitchell Museum have been ones to watch for some time now, but the unexpected brilliance of their debut album suggests we weren’t watch... Read more »| 30 Jun 2010 -
Music
A Rough Guide to Doseone
Doseone & Boom Bip – Circle (Leaf, 2000) Possibly the weirdest hip-hop album ever recorded, Dose bounces off angular production to explore every ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2010 -
Music
Adam Stafford and the Death Bridge Convention – Music In The Mirabel
Covers albums can be risky: on the plus side, the artist gets to release versions of songs his listeners may already love; on the negative, well-known songs ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2010 -
Music
Themselves: Return of the Boom Bap
With CrownsDown, Themselves came full circle, delivering an album of straight-up hip-hop. Adam "Doseone" Drucker says it's all about avoiding rap Hell Read more »| 30 Jun 2010 -
Music
Notes on The Mirabel
Falkirk troubadour Adam Stafford lays out the liner notes for his curious new album of covers Read more »| 30 Jun 2010 -
Clubs
Light My Beyer
Shortly before the Slam Tent hosts its strongest line-up in years, Adam Beyer talks about his plans for the Drumcode label and 'dance music fashion' Read more »| 30 Jun 2010 -
Film
Hierro
Plumbing the depths of psychological horror, Hierro takes us on the genuinely disturbing journey of single mother Maria (Elena Anaya) and her frantic... Read more »| 30 Jun 2010 -
Music
Carlton Melton – Pass It On
Recorded inside a Geodesic Dome off the coast of Northern California, Pass It On is an album of live, improvised, experimental, psychedelic jams. If that las... Read more »| 30 Jun 2010