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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BooksThe Quarry by Iain Banks
Eighteen-year-old Kit and his dad, Guy, live in a house on the edge of an expanding quarry. Kit has Asperger’s; Guy has cancer. It’s quite funny,... Read more »| 22 Jun 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 21 June
A survey of the week's music stories: RM Hubbert takes home the Scottish Album of the Year Award; Four Tet is not Burial (... or is he?); new videos from DOOM, Fuck Buttons, METZ and more Read more »| 21 Jun 2013 -
FilmThis Is the End
This Is the End is like a Who’s Who of contemporary American comedy, with almost everyone who has graced an Apatow production in the past decade making... Read more »| 21 Jun 2013 -
MusicBosnian Rainbows – Bosnian Rainbows
Former At The Drive-In / The Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and Les Butcherettes founder Teri Gender Bender come from dist... Read more »| 21 Jun 2013 -
Art
Zoe Williams @ SWG3, until 6 Jul
The atmosphere’s heavy with incense, there’s an altar and the sound piece is paced at the rate of meditative breathing. Some controversial cultic... Read more »| 20 Jun 2013 -
MusicLoki – Edging God Out
The old retirement-and-comeback trick is a hip-hop staple, so how has it worked out for Loki, one of Scotland's most lyrically gifted writers and rappers?&nb... Read more »| 20 Jun 2013
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Film
World War Z
World War Z is based on Max Brooks’ bestselling novel of the same name, a globe-trotting, multi-perspective document of a zombie apocalypse, rife with ... Read more »| 20 Jun 2013 -
Music
Austra – Olympia
Kate Stelmanis is a classically trained former opera singer but on album number two, Olympia, her voice imparts drama for its very lack of rhapsody. It&... Read more »| 19 Jun 2013 -
Music
NETVERK Podcast: June 2013
Exploring the world of netaudio, the NETVERK podcast returns to The Skinny. This month's show features a more guitar-flecked playlist than the last episode, with tracks from Sonic Hearts Foundation, CRIM3S, and Beacon Read more »| 19 Jun 2013 -
Music
Danny Brown @ The Arches, 15 June
Danny Brown's hyper-exaggerated caricature is in full effect tonight. From his mad-haired, gap-toothed appearance to his comically high-pitched voice, i... Read more »| 18 Jun 2013 -
Clubs
Nihjgt Falls: San Francisco producer oOoOO on his cross-generic debut LP
In a hazy, twilit sonic world, R‘n’B and hip-hop are being reconfigured as cutting-edge experimental electronic music by San Francisco's oOoOO Read more »| 18 Jun 2013 -
Music
Zomby – With Love
Excepting its mammoth run-time, With Love feels similar in both form and execution to Zomby's previous album, Dedication. This time the shadow... Read more »| 18 Jun 2013 -
Music
The Stone Roses @ Glasgow Green, 15 June
Every reformed act must dance with their past one way or another, but today The Stone Roses rekindle history in a very specific way, revisiting the... Read more »| 18 Jun 2013 -
Music
Neil Young & Crazy Horse @ SECC, 13 June
It would be an understatement to bill Neil Young & Crazy Horse's first Glasgow date since 2001 as an extravagant return. As comically oversized ampl... Read more »| 18 Jun 2013 -
FilmThe Parade
With equal marriage on the way, it’s easy to forget that in parts of the world being gay can mean daily abuse, violence and even death. Gaybashing in S... Read more »| 17 Jun 2013