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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MusicVirus Syndicate - The Breakout Trilogy
Virus Syndicate’s The Breakout Trilogy is the result of the unholy alliance between brain pummelling Planet Mu producer MRKI and three grime MCs from M... Read more »| 26 Apr 2010 -
MusicTeam Ghost - You Never Did Anything Wrong To Me EP
It shouldn’t take long to join the dots between Team Ghost and electro French star-gazers M83. Both use similar artwork and typefaces as well as epic g... Read more »| 26 Apr 2010 -
MusicBroken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Some things are worth waiting for; five years on from their eponymous third album, Broken Social Scene remain one of them. The Canadian collective haven&rsqu... Read more »| 26 Apr 2010 -
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The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever
Returning with another slab of arena-ready rock come Brooklyn’s The Hold Steady. Craig Finn still expounds bittersweet life lessons over Tad Kubler&rsq... Read more »| 26 Apr 2010 -
MusicInspector Tapehead @ Roxy Art House, 18 April
The Japanese War Effort, aka Jamie, Martin Moog, HRH The King of Poland, that tall male one out of Conquering Animal Sound etc. etc. is proving to be one of ... Read more »| 26 Apr 2010 -
TheatreLove and Other Strangers
There are two sides to every story and Colin Garrow’s new comedy Love Song in Sixteen Bars is no exception Read more »| 26 Apr 2010
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Music
CocoRosie - Grey Oceans
Grey Oceans – the fourth album from the US-born, Paris-based sisters Casady – is a schizophrenic and intense tug o’ war. Eerie open... Read more »| 23 Apr 2010 -
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Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Retina EP
Having recovered from troublesome clouds of volcanic sulphur, Scotland faces a far more devastating Icelandic invasion. Though Swedish by nationality, Wildbi... Read more »| 23 Apr 2010 -
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Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Cosmogramma begins with sledgehammer beats, but quickly mutates. A wafting haze of analogue clicks and dust permeate the veins of this intriguing record, len... Read more »| 23 Apr 2010 -
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Hrdvsion - Where Did You Just Go?
Billed as the record on which he embraces the DJ's primary task of pleasing the crowd, Where Did You Just Go? begs another question: just what did Hrdvsion s... Read more »| 23 Apr 2010 -
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Eagleowl - Into the Fold EP
Moody and atmospheric, Eagleowl deliver a complex and weighty EP with Into the Fold. Bookended by the doleful title track and sombre but triumphant N... Read more »| 23 Apr 2010 -
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Mike Patton - Mondo Cane
Musically, there's not much ground that Mike Patton hasn't covered, and yet it was with a pang of delicious surprise that we welcomed the news of Mondo Cane:... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010 -
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Future Islands - In Evening Air
From the opening refrain of Baltimore trio Future Islands’ official sophomore release we’re met by the rabid growl of singer and lynchpin Sam Her... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010 -
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Steve Mason - Boys Outside
The post-split material released by ex-Beta Band members has been almost as enigmatic as the group’s seminal output on their three EPs and albums. Sing... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010 -
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Jim Lambie Metal Urbain @ Modern Institute
The behemoth that is the GI International Festival of Visual Art keeps rumbling along, with Jim Lambie’s solo exhibition marking the opening of the Mod... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010