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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MusicAlice Glass leaves Crystal Castles
Crystal Castles vocalist Alice Glass has announced that she has left the Toronto-based two-piece to focus on solo projects. In a statement on Twitter, Glass... Read more »| 08 Oct 2014 -
Music
The Postal Service documentary announced, trailer released
A trailer has emerged for Everything Will Change, a new feature-length documentary charting the return of The Postal Service last year. Everything Will Chan... Read more »| 08 Oct 2014 -
ArtJonathan Meese, Vanessa Billy and Briggait open studios – This Week in Scottish Art
Jonathan Meese rolls into Glasgow, Vanessa Billy's debut solo show lands in Edinburgh, and Briggait Studios throw open their doors – get all the details in this week's Scottish art news round-up. Read more »| 08 Oct 2014 -
FilmWolfCop
Yet another doolally 80s horror pastiche, WolfCop remembers the rule that some of its predecessors (notably Hobo with a Shotgun) forgot: never let the nastin... Read more »| 08 Oct 2014 -
Music
Dope Body – Lifer
Dope Body’s Lifer wears the fug of the band’s rehearsal room – the Baltimore four-piece barely left it while thrashing this record into sha... Read more »| 08 Oct 2014 -
Clubs
LuckyMe and Handpicked showcases added to Simple Things line-up
Label showcases from Handpicked and LuckyMe are among a host of new additions to the line-up for next month’s Simple Things all-dayer in Glasgow. The ... Read more »| 07 Oct 2014
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MusicTV on the Radio release new track ‘Careful You’
US indie rockers TV on the Radio have released ‘Careful You’, the second track from their forthcoming album Seeds. Seeds is the New York band&rs... Read more »| 07 Oct 2014 -
Music
Goat / The Lay Llamas / Trembling Bells @ SWG3, 28 September
“Psych” comes in many flavours tonight, with each act on the bill proffering a different strain of heady experimentation. We begin with the medie... Read more »| 07 Oct 2014 -
Music
In June: Ryan Kennedy introduces Horsebeach
Arriving seemingly from nowhere, then selling out the first pressing of his LP, Horsebeach is the project of one Ryan Kennedy, combining a sunny stateside lilt with a moodier Mancunian worldview to attractive effect. He tells the story of his debut record Read more »| 07 Oct 2014 -
Music
J Mascis announces January 2015 UK tour
Dinosaur Jr frontman J Mascis is set to return to the UK for a series of gigs in January 2015. Mascis plays The Ruby Lounge in Manchester on 10 Jan and The ... Read more »| 07 Oct 2014 -
Music
AC/DC unveil ‘Rock or Bust’ tracklist, artwork and lead single
Australian rock legends AC/DC have revealed the tracklist for new LP Rock or Bust, their first studio album in six years. The rockers – who last appea... Read more »| 07 Oct 2014 -
Music
Bell Gardens – Slow Dawns For Lost Conclusions
Following 2007’s minimalist monument And Their Refinement of the Decline, ambient-drone duo Stars of the Lid parted company and formed new musical pair... Read more »| 07 Oct 2014 -
Books
Cast Aside: John Updike's posthumous reputation
As John Updike biographer Adam Begley appears at Manchester Literature Festival this month, we consider the posthumous reputation of one of America's best-known writers. It's arguably never been at a lower ebb, but should this be so? Read more »| 07 Oct 2014 -
Books
True Blood: Author’s Fans Bite Back
In what is for her a post-Sookie Stackhouse era, author Charlaine Harris looks past crazed fans and forward to her ongoing Midnight Texas series of novels and the resurrection of Aurora Teagarden for a major new TV series Read more »| 06 Oct 2014 -
Film
Twin Peaks to return to TV screens in 2016
David Lynch’s dark television classic Twin Peaks is to return for a third series in 2016, 25 years after the airing of the show’s final episode. ... Read more »| 06 Oct 2014