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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MusicWhite Lung – Paradise
2014’s sterling Deep Fantasy saw White Lung thrashing away under a mushroom cloud of eardrum-rattling guitar effects – a triumphant honing of eve... Read more »| 29 Apr 2016 -
ArtJupiter Artland nominated for Museum of the Year
Jupiter Artland sculpture garden near Edinburgh has been nominated for the Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year. The outdoor gallery, situated in the groun... Read more »| 29 Apr 2016 -
ArtJupiter Artland 2016: Garden of Earthly Delights
What does it feel like living in Scotland's only contemporary sculpture park and waking up to a Marc Quinn every day? Nicky Wilson tells all and gives some details about the upcoming spring and summer programmes before Jupiter reopens this month. Read more »| 28 Apr 2016 -
Film
Nespresso Talents 2016: Vote for your favourite
Nespresso Talents 2016 shortlist has been announced and it’s up to you to take to Facebook or Twitter to choose the three films to be sc... Read more »| 28 Apr 2016 -
TheatreLiverpool's Lantern Theatre to close
The Lantern Theatre in Liverpool is set to close its doors for the final time on 31 July 2016. Widely appreciated for providing the city with new theatre si... Read more »| 28 Apr 2016 -
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Outblinker – The Remains of Water Peck EP
A three-track sneak peek of the album due out later in the year, the latest EP from the Glasgow five-piece balances precariously between the ecumenical and t... Read more »| 28 Apr 2016
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Music
JC Flowers – Driving Excitement and the Pleasure of Ownership
Londoners JC Flowers are certainly full of ideas. Baudrillard is loftily cited on the press release, suggesting a knowing angle to their classicist psych-pop... Read more »| 27 Apr 2016 -
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Ghold – Pyr
OWCH. You know that feeling when someone repeatedly bashes your skull with a meat tenderiser until it caves and the bone splinters and the pain goes fuz... Read more »| 27 Apr 2016 -
Music
False Advertising – Brainless EP
Just a heads-up; you can disregard the Mancunian band's moniker and the EP's title. Over five tracks on Brainless, their follow-up to last year's stupid... Read more »| 27 Apr 2016 -
Music
Composer-Curator: Neil Luck's Resonance FM show
A new radio show on Resonance FM, Drivetime Underground, presents experimental music in a commercial, 'magazine'-style format – aiming to subvert ... Read more »| 27 Apr 2016 -
Music
Yoni & Geti – Testarossa
In its original conception, Testarossa comprised the soundtrack to a script formulated by Why? mainman Yoni Wolf and fellow alt rapper Serengeti. E... Read more »| 26 Apr 2016 -
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We Are Scientists – Helter Seltzer
You’ve heard it before: indie band makes waves with intoxicating studio debut, and lives forever in its shadow. In the decade since the squeaky-clean n... Read more »| 26 Apr 2016 -
Music
Explosions in the Sky @ Glasgow Barrowlands, 19 April
Should they be responsible for some of the most soul-achingly beautiful music ever recorded – and from a post-rock perspective at least there’s a... Read more »| 26 Apr 2016 -
ArtThis Week in Scottish Art: 27 Apr - 2 May
Our weekly art guide, featuring performance at Glasgow School of Art and The Glue Factory, the return of Glasgow Zine Fest, and a beer-based art exhibition in Edinburgh. Read more »| 26 Apr 2016 -
Film
Twin Peaks cast: Familiar faces and big surprises
Check out the ridiculous Twin Peaks cast! Read more »| 26 Apr 2016