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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MusicEarth's Dylan Carlson shines a light on Angels of Darkness
Defying life-threatening circumstances and a personnel crisis to bring Earth's impending seventh studio album to life, who better to give an insight than guitarist and principal member Dylan Carlson? Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
Music
Earth: Versus The World
Despite his role in birthing a genre, unassuming Earth founder Dylan Carlson never set out with any master plan Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
MusicJoan As Police Woman – The Deep Field
Following on from 2008’s emotionally super-weighty ode to her recently passed mother, To Survive, NYC’s Joan Wasser returns with her third album.... Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
Music
Helmet @ Cathouse, 17 Dec
Mad, bad and dangerous to be in the vicinity of, DeSalvo’s vocalist P6 is a fearsome creature and as he sets to work harassing the crowd, they play the... Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
Theatre
A View From the Bridge
In their capability to unite and divide there is something compelling about bridges that encourage writers to build stories around them. And as seen in The B... Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
Music
Starter For Eleven: Talib Kweli
Influential New York MC Talib Kweli battles through a round of hip-hop history for the unrivalled glory of a haggis supper Read more »| 05 Jan 2011
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MusicR.L. Got Soul
Jon Spencer pays tribute to late delta bluesman R.L. Burnside and recommends a place to start listening Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
Music
Cerebral Bore: Forged In Fire
Haemorrhaging members quicker than they can book a tour, Cerebral Bore are undeterred in their quest for global dominance Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
Music
Young Fathers: Straight Back On It
With gathering acclaim and a debut album under their arm, Young Fathers – Scotland's premier 'rap boy band' – gear up for their busiest year yet Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
MusicDolorean – The Unfazed
When Portland’s Al James rolls through town, he doesn’t exactly ignite the tarmac. This misspelt Dolorean isn’t going back to the future, j... Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
MusicVarious Artists – 3...2...1... A Rocket Girl Compilation
Merge and Warp set high benchmarks for label retrospectives last year with their respective 20th anniversary archive-trawls. Thirteen-year-old UK label Rocke... Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
Books
The Legacy by Kirsten Tranter
A literary novel that borrows elements from Portrait of a Lady and The Big Sleep sounds a bit too literary and not very novel. But The Legacy isn&rs... Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
Art
The Ethics of Encounter @ Stills
Although set within the formal paradigm of the documentary film, the works in the second part of the Stills Gallery’s exhibition are not didactic or ex... Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
Art
New Work Scotland 2010: Nicolas Party & Catherine Payton @ Collective
Successful conceptual art should (of course) contain a strong concept, but – crucially – it must convey that concept to the viewer. Unsuccessful ... Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: January Horoscopes
ARIES Oh hai Arians! Whilst watching The Room on DVD you start the new year by forming a spiritually unbreakable bond of empathy with Tommy Wiseau. Thereaft... Read more »| 05 Jan 2011