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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MusicTT – LoveLaws
On her first solo album under the TT name, Warpaint's Theresa Wayman reveals the slippery, shimmering quality of her songwriting Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
Music
Modern Studies – Welcome Strangers
Welcome Strangers feels like Modern Studies at their most ambitious, as abstract as it is accessible and as complex as it is beautifully simple Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
MusicRemember Sports – Slow Buzz
After a name change and the addition of a new drummer, Remember Sports (fka SPORTS) fully arrive with lo-fi fuzz full of heartache Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
MusicStephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Sparkle Hard
Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus returns with an album overflowing with hooks, and a hint of grace and gravitas Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
Art
Dundee Degree Show 2018: Brilliantly bizarre
A brilliant showcase of work by Dundee's most exciting artists at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) degree show Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
MusicThe Motion Poets – A Girl Like This (Video Premiere)
Edinburgh indie-grunge quartet The Motion Poets share their latest video, for new track A Girl Like This Read more »| 18 May 2018
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Music
Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!
There is rather a lot to be angry about right now, but with Wide Awake! Parquet Courts remind us to dance and have a good time, despite the impending apocalypse Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
Music
Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel
There's no sign of a sophomore slump on Tell Me How You Really Feel, an album that doesn't better Courtney Barnett's stellar debut, but certainly does no harm to her burgeoning oeuvre Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
Theatre
Gut @ Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Frances Poet's first full-length play packs a visceral punch, taking on issues of trust, fear and creeping unease Read more »| 17 May 2018 -
Music
Damo Suzuki @ Mash House, Edinburgh, 8 May
Tonight is sometimes brilliant, sometimes gibberish as Can's Damo Suzuki performs a set made up solely of compositions improvised entirely on the spot Read more »| 17 May 2018 -
Film
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Solo: A Star Wars Story is hardly revolutionary – it's no Last Jedi – but its high-spirited adventure reminds us why we all fell in love with Star Wars in the first place Read more »| 17 May 2018 -
FilmArgentinean auteur Lucrecia Martel on Zama
A decade on from her discombobulating masterpiece The Headless Woman, Lucrecia Martel is back with Zama. The Argentinean director discusses the art of adaptation and the importance of sound in her films Read more »| 16 May 2018 -
Music
Create a Glasgow music mash-up with Mix the City
Online music platform Mix the City lets you build your own music track using clips from great musicians, and Glasgow is getting its version as part of Festival 2018 Read more »| 16 May 2018 -
Music
Gigs in Glasgow and Edinburgh: 16-21 May
From Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert to Japanese Breakfast, Car Seat Headrest and a Glasgow all-dayer hosted by Savage Mansion, we take a look at the best shows this week across Scotland Read more »| 16 May 2018 -
Music
We Are Scientists @ The Garage, Glasgow, 10 May
Tonight at The Garage feels like more of a We Are Scientists greatest hits set than a Megaplex promotional tour Read more »| 16 May 2018