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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MusicThe Mynabirds – Lovers Know
After finishing her role as keyboardist on The Postal Service’s reunion tour, Laura Burhenn travelled the world to find herself again. Recorded over th... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Film
Cemetery Without Crosses
Revenge plots have an appealing simplicity – they clarify everyone's motivation and streamline the story towards its inevitable conclusion. Their spars... Read more »| 27 Jul 2015 -
FilmAna Lily Amirpour on her Iranian vampire Western
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Ana Lily Amirpour's tale of a righteous, chador-clad vampire who's cleaning up her one horse town, is the year's most beguiling movie. She tells us about the film's influences ahead of its UK DVD release Read more »| 27 Jul 2015 -
Film
Best of Enemies
Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon's gripping doc is structured like a boxing movie, but in this case the pugilists are intellectual heavyweights. In the ... Read more »| 24 Jul 2015 -
MusicTitus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy
In 2010, Titus Andronicus released The Monitor, a record which took the concept of the American Civil War and used it as an allegory for modern life as an un... Read more »| 24 Jul 2015 -
Music
HEALTH – Death Magic
If brooding, primal opener Victim is anything to go by, you'd be forgiven for thinking HEALTH are going back to their confrontational roots with their first ... Read more »| 24 Jul 2015
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MusicA Week in Records: Alessandro Cortini, Gunship, Seven Davis Jr...
With new releases from Trent Reznor's protégé and the latest gang of neon synthwave enthusiasts, our Music team present a weekly digest of five LPs hitting the racks (virtually and otherwise) this Friday Read more »| 24 Jul 2015 -
Music
Mac DeMarco – Another One
It’s not just summery vibes with a hint of melancholia in the Mac DeMarco camp; should you be looking for the playful intuitions that underpin his soun... Read more »| 23 Jul 2015 -
Music
Albert Hammond, Jr. – Momentary Masters
Stars splintering from a band for solo outings don’t just run the risk of unfavorable comparisons with the better-known body of their group’s wor... Read more »| 23 Jul 2015 -
Music
\\GT// – Beats Misplaced
Messiness in rock music can be a powerful emotive tool. Raw, loose playing can feel transgressive and exciting; an unadulterated transmission of energy. Alab... Read more »| 23 Jul 2015 -
Music
The Phoenix Foundation – Give Up Your Dreams
Where Buffalo – arguably The Phoenix Foundation’s most successful album to date – exhibited a whimsical, acoustic folk ... Read more »| 23 Jul 2015 -
Music
Idlewild announce live collaboration with Royal Scottish National Orchestra at Paisley's Spree Festival
Idlewild will play a one-off gig with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra at Paisley Abbey as part of the Spree Festival this October. The quintet, who re... Read more »| 22 Jul 2015 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: Gangs, Ashes, and the Transmission Party
Across Scotland this week are openings, talks and parties aplenty, whether it's celebrating the conclusion of the Phoenix Bursary programme, the traditional summer party from Transmission, or new shows opening in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Read more »| 21 Jul 2015 -
Music
New Order, Hudson Mohawke and Run the Jewels for 2015 edition of The Warehouse Project
The Warehouse Project has announced its tenth anniversary line-up of gigs and club nights taking place in Manchester throughout this coming autumn and winter... Read more »| 21 Jul 2015 -
Music
10x10: Four Tet / Tyondai Braxton @ Mayfield Depot, 17 July
One of Manchester International Festival's greatest feats has been its ability to constantly re-discover space in a city that's being opened up and regenerat... Read more »| 20 Jul 2015