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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Music...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead / Turbowolf @ SWG3, 20 April
For starters tonight, Turbowolf serve up a psychedelic punk rock stew laced with chugging, down-tuned riffs, screechy, discordant soloing and rumbl... Read more »| 25 Apr 2013 -
MusicEdwyn Collins @ O2 ABC, 18 April
When Edwyn Collins walks onstage, the lights are still up and background music continues to play quietly through the PA. Yet his supporting cane casts a dist... Read more »| 25 Apr 2013 -
Music
Scottish Album of the Year: 2013 Longlist Announced
As the Scottish Album Of The Year Awards longlist for 2013 is announced, we offer analysis on the initiative's cultural significance and revisit some of the coverage we've given the nominees, from Auntie Flo to The Unwinding Hours Read more »| 25 Apr 2013 -
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Savages – Silence Yourself
The soberly dressed ladies comprising this London-based quartet present something of a refreshing anomaly in contemporary British music. Who else out th... Read more »| 25 Apr 2013 -
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College – Secret Diary
Invada Records have developed a taste for retro-futuristic analogue synth-pop, as evidenced by their re-release of the debut album by French producer David G... Read more »| 25 Apr 2013 -
MusicThe Heliocentrics – 13 Degrees of Reality
It’s been a long wait for the follow-up to the Heliocentrics’ 2007 debut Out There, but given the bewildering range of influences and ideas ... Read more »| 25 Apr 2013
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Music
Pere Ubu / Variety Lights @ Mono, 17 April
Seminal is an overused word, but it can be fairly applied to both Pere Ubu and the earlier work of Variety Lights’ David Baker: as the original fr... Read more »| 24 Apr 2013 -
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Mike Patton – The Place Beyond the Pines OST
From Faith No More to Fantômas, Tomahawk to “pop” project Peeping Tom and of course the gleefully experimental Mr Bungle, Mike Patton&rsquo... Read more »| 24 Apr 2013 -
MusicSax Prodigy: Colin Stetson on Completing a Trilogy
Having worked with everyone from Tom Waits to Bon Iver, virtuoso saxophonist Colin Stetson is forging a bold new path by himself. He talks to The Skinny about his latest album, unorthodox recording setups and the loneliest whale in the world Read more »| 24 Apr 2013 -
Film
Iron Man 3
Iron Man 3 features a Christmas setting, a struggling protagonist caught in strange team-ups, two heroes sneaking into a dock for an action set piece, b... Read more »| 24 Apr 2013 -
Music
Shield Patterns @ The Castle Hotel, Manchester, 17 April
You'd be forgiven for not realising that this is only Shield Patterns' second show: Claire Brentnall's porcelain songs arrive seemingly complete and finalise... Read more »| 24 Apr 2013 -
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KMFDM – Kunst
Let's get this out of the way – KMFDM have basically become a covers band. The only band they cover is KMFDM. On title track Kunst, they recycle lyrics... Read more »| 24 Apr 2013 -
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eagleowl – this silent year
The family of birds known as eagle owls (easily identifiable by their ear tufts) are notoriously elusive, spending most of their time roosting out of sight. ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2013 -
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Jacques, a Robin – Statuettes
The seven pieces of brooding chamber-pop that comprise Davide Ariasso’s debut as Jacques, a Robin are all self-contained melancholy vignettes, drawing ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2013 -
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It Hugs Back – Recommended Record
It’s easy to see why Matthew Simms, the guitarist, vocalist and songwriter behind London quartet It Hugs Back, was asked to join Wire last year. Despit... Read more »| 24 Apr 2013