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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MusicKode9 & The Spaceape – Black Sun
Hyperdub has always been the most experimental and forward-thinking of dubstep labels, and the panache with which Kode9 and Spaceape reinvented and deconstru... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
Music
Stranded Horse – Humbling Tides
Yann Tambour – formerly Thee Stranded Horse, now Thee-less – writes and performs on a miniature kora, a kind of African harp/guitar. Throughout H... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
BooksParadoxical Undressing by Kristin Hersh
Based on the diaries she kept at the time, this absorbing and idiosyncratic memoir chronicles the early years of Kristin Hersh's band Throwing Muses, one of ... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
MusicPanda Bear – Tomboy
Bringing an aural sharpness in contrast to the kaleidoscopic, woozy swirl of 2007’s Person Pitch, Tomboy finds Noah Lennox further straddling the exper... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
Music
Trembling Bells – The Constant Pageant
While Alex Neilson may be the driving force behind the band, it’s still inevitable that the most arresting thing about any new Trembling Bells album wi... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
Music
Deerhunter @ Òran Mór, 28 March
Deerhunter are riding the crest of a wave that hasn't let up since 2005's Cryptograms, both critically and in relative commercial terms. After a quiet start ... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011
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Music
Deadboy – HERE (NMBRS15)
Numbers have had a relentless amount of quality releases in the past 12 months, with Deadboy’s Here EP being no exception. Having provided the label wi... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
Music
Fight Like Apes – The Body Of Christ And The Legs Of Tina Turner
From the record title alone it’s clear that Ireland’s Fight Like Apes haven’t toned the weirdness down any for their Andy Gill produced sec... Read more »| 29 Mar 2011 -
Art
Strange Loops @ Generator Projects
Not often will you find a gallery deviating quite so boldly from the traditional group show format. With the Craig Mulholland-curated exhibition Strange Loop... Read more »| 29 Mar 2011 -
Theatre
The Hard Man @ King's Theatre
Scotland’s tradition of groundbreaking literary experimentation suffered a great loss with the recent death of Tom McGrath. He is best known for his p... Read more »| 29 Mar 2011 -
Music
Alexander – Alexander
Branching away from his ten-strong Bohemian clan known as the Magnetic Zeros, the debut solo undertaking from Alexander Ebert is an intimate stripped-down af... Read more »| 29 Mar 2011 -
Music
Metronomy – The English Riviera
Metronomy’s 2008 breakthrough album Nights Out is already starting to sound a little ‘of its time’. Lo-fi recording may have helped it esca... Read more »| 29 Mar 2011 -
BooksFilmish #3 by Edward Ross
Filmish Number 3 is here, and it is as enjoyable as the first two. If you haven’t seen it before, Filmish is a comic where author Edward Ross appears h... Read more »| 29 Mar 2011 -
Art
RSA New Contemporaries
Now in its third year, RSA New Contemporaries brings Scotland’s latest art graduates to the attention of the gallery-going public. Evolving from their ... Read more »| 28 Mar 2011 -
Music
Moddi – Floriography
Floriography has already topped the charts in Pål Moddi Knutsen’s native Norway, which considering the unleavened tone is no mean feat; Damien Ri... Read more »| 28 Mar 2011