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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MusicLorelle Meets The Obsolete – Chambers
Garage rock, psych and lo-fi stoner rock aesthetics collide on the new album by Mexican husband and wife duo Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, and it's difficult t... Read more »| 04 Feb 2014 -
MusicPrefuse 73 offers stems of a new track for remix
Attention beatmakers! LA-based hip-hop producer Prefuse 73 has returned with a new track, Thursday Ringing, and now he is offering up the stems to aspiring remixers Read more »| 03 Feb 2014 -
MusicNorthwest Gig Highlights – February 2014
It might be a cliche, but there is actually genuinely something for everyone this month, as Pharoahe Monch and Warpaint beguile Liverpool, and Manchester hosts Dead Prez and of Montreal Read more »| 03 Feb 2014 -
ArtRachel Maclean: Once Upon an Apocalypse
Set among the post-apocalyptic ruins of a vast empire, Rachel Maclean's latest exploration of national identity is set to be one of the most stunning highlights of Glasgow Film Festival. We grabbed a quick chat with her ahead of the premiere Read more »| 03 Feb 2014 -
Film
Northwest Film Event Highlights – February 2014
Cinema, like love, has many shades. Sometimes it’s all kissing in the rain and romantic meetings at New York landmarks; at other times it’s all joyless sex and projectile vomiting. This month’s film events have both in equal measure Read more »| 03 Feb 2014 -
Music
Public Image Limited call-out for fan footage
John Lydon's Public Image Limited are planning a new documentary to celebrate their three decades-long career, and they're asking for help from their fans in putting together a dfeinitive archive of live footage Read more »| 03 Feb 2014
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Film
Her
Each of Spike Jonze’s films to date has hinged on a far-fetched premise, but, crucially, they have all possessed an insight and depth of feeling that m... Read more »| 03 Feb 2014 -
Film
Dallas Buyers Club
There’s something terribly banal about Dallas Buyers Club, Jean-Marc Vallée’s old-fashioned redemption piece about a crooked Texan bigot f... Read more »| 03 Feb 2014 -
Music
Cloud Sounds #3: Withered Hand, Wild Beasts, Call To Mind, Thee Silver Mt. Zion and more
In this week's Cloud Sounds playlist from The Skinny, we take a look at breaking tracks from some Skinny favourites, including in-demand Scottish synth-pop stars CHVRCHES, who offer up their cover of the classic Bauhaus track, Bela Lugosi's Dead Read more »| 03 Feb 2014 -
Film
The film world mourns Philip Seymour Hoffman
Actor and director Philip Seymour Hoffman has passed away at the age of 46. The film world offers tribute to an actor many considered to be the finest of his generation Read more »| 03 Feb 2014 -
Comedy
Norris & Parker @ The Lowry, Salford, 28 Jan
A major worry about a show likened to Brass Eye and The League of Gentlemen is that – like many inspired by the wonderfully surreal and dangerous ... Read more »| 03 Feb 2014 -
Music
Various Artists – Acid Arab Collections
Inspired by the proliferation of Arab music and culture in their native Paris, Acid Arab put together a collection of experimental tracks drawing infectious ... Read more »| 03 Feb 2014 -
Clubs
Moderat's Sebastian Szary on the group's cinematic world tour
“It’s like when you learn a language. You might not speak this language for a while, but when you come back to it, it’s still there.”... Read more »| 03 Feb 2014 -
Music
Outlands – Love Is As Cold As Death
Informed by the more ponderous end of the 90s UK beat scene – Lamb, in particular, are clearly an influence - and the colder synth sounds of 80s a... Read more »| 03 Feb 2014 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: February 2014 Horoscopes
ARIES Landing a finance job at Canary Wharf the yellow-eyed intern showing you around the office habitat boasts about the “heat mats under each floor.&... Read more »| 01 Feb 2014