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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ArtBack to Black Mountain: The Only Way To Do It
GSA Curatorial Practice students mount an exhibition that's intended as a sharp new contextualisation of American Abstract Expressionist prints Read more »| 07 Jul 2015 -
MusicOught announce new album ‘Sun Coming Down’
Montreal post-punk quartet Ought have announced the release of their second full-length LP, Sun Coming Down, this September. Sun Coming Down is the follow-u... Read more »| 07 Jul 2015 -
MusicHaiku Salut – Etch and Etch Deep
Half-dreams – the hypnagogic state between wakefulness and sleeping. That’s where Haiku Salut sneak up on you, playing on your fragile consciousn... Read more »| 07 Jul 2015 -
Music
Vinyl Williams – Into
The second long player from LA-based artist/multi-instrumentalist Lionel Williams – grandson of film composer John Williams – and it certainly do... Read more »| 07 Jul 2015 -
ArtDaubing and Befriending Birds: This Week in Scottish Art
The Whisky Bond's Annual Party this Saturday is the big event this week, while there are new shows at Collective, Glasgow Sculpture Studios and the Glasgow Project Room, plus one-offs and last chances in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Read more »| 07 Jul 2015 -
Music
Alessandro Cortini – Risveglio
A sound that pulls at unnerving soundtrack textures, implies a dislocation from home and wears its analogue chops as if there’s no possible alternative... Read more »| 07 Jul 2015
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Music
A Week in Records: Lee Bannon, Sleaford Mods, Prefuse 73...
As the music world is battered into line with a new international album release date each Friday, our Music team present a weekly digest of five recommendations, from Ninja Tune stalwart Lee Bannon to latter-day firestarters Sleaford Mods Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
Music
Adrian Younge presents – Twelve Reasons To Die II (starring Ghostface Killah)
"Ayo I’m back blowin’ dust off the vinyl, I got twelve more reasons to die, snap your spinal," Ghostface Killah raps, announcing the second insta... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
Music
Admiral Fallow – Tiny Rewards
There’s something crystalline about Tiny Rewards: maybe it’s frontman Louis Abbott’s clear tenor reaching upwards (paired often with Sarah ... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
Music
C Duncan – Architect
"I’ll take you everywhere I go … I’ll take you everywhere I know," C Duncan sings on Here To There. By the time we get to this track, on t... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
Clubs
Nozinja on Shangaan Electro and signing to Warp
Now signed to Warp, Soweto-based producer Nozinja is set to unleash the 180bpm sugar kick of Shangaan Electro on the UK once again Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
Film
Song of the Sea
Back in February, Song of the Sea was memorably described by one Oscar voter as “that obscure freakin’ Chinese fuckin’ thing that nobody ev... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
Film
Dear White People
Arriving on UK shores 18 months after its Sundance debut, US comedy Dear White People is all too relevant in light of the increasingly publicised troubles of... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
Film
Chappie
Neil Blomkamp's career has, so far, been a lot like Tim Burton's, except played out over just three films rather than three decades. Both begin life as block... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
Music
An Asphalt Haunting: Introducing Man of Moon
Young Edinburgh two-piece Man of Moon have been enticing audiences for a while. But now, with their debut single The Road/This World about to be released, lunar orbit beckons Read more »| 03 Jul 2015