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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MusicNice Nice - Extra Wow
Jason Buehler and Mark Shirazi, a.k.a. Nice Nice, make their Warp debut with a collection of sound so rich and triumphant that it absolutely deserves its tit... Read more »| 25 Mar 2010 -
BooksThe Nigger Factory by Gil Scott-Heron
It’s an incendiary title, but that’s just because it’s making an angry political point about the state of education for black Ameri... Read more »| 25 Mar 2010 -
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WHY? @ Stereo, 18 March
“We’re from here,” chuckles Yoni Wolf as he climbs up on the pulpit of Stereo’s dank basement. The WHY? frontman belies his shy, nerd... Read more »| 24 Mar 2010 -
BooksJ.D. Salinger: A Life Raised High by Kenneth Slawenski
When J.D. Salinger died earlier this year, a glut of rushed, cash-in biographies could have been expected. However, A Life Raised High is much better... Read more »| 24 Mar 2010 -
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Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra @ Glasgow School of Art, 19 March
With his left hand flowing over the fretboard while the right rattles his acoustic's wooden body and glances over strings, RM Hubbert is one hell of a guitar... Read more »| 24 Mar 2010 -
Art
Euan Taylor @ ROXY Art House
Last year The Skinny selected our favourite artist from the New Contemporaries exhibition and gave him a prize. It was a tough selection in a strong field, b... Read more »| 24 Mar 2010
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Music
We Were Promised Jetpacks - The Last Place You'll Look EP
The Last Place You'll Look reprises two standout tracks from We Were Promised Jetpacks' underrated debut LP These Four Walls – Short Bursts and This Is... Read more »| 24 Mar 2010 -
MusicSuper Adventure Club's Avoid Zombies: Track-by-Track, By the Band
Hip Hop Hot Pot Pot Noodle Tales, circumstances and quips from three people living on Bread Street in Edinburgh for three months in a tiny two bedroom flat &... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010 -
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Various Artists - Shank OST
The producers of the dystopian Brit-flick Shank obviously buy into the argument of grime as a handy expression of urban decay, as its official soundtrack bra... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010 -
Books
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
The Pregnant Widow, Martin Amis's best book since his memoir Experience (2000), presents itself as a disquisition on the victories and defeats of the... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010 -
Music
Woodenbox With A Fistful Of Fivers - Home and the Wildhunt
It seems lazy to automatically align any act with prominent brass and a Celtic swing with Dexy’s Midnight Runners, but sometimes knee-jerk comp... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010 -
Music
Jónsi - Go
It's difficult to distinguish Jónsi's debut solo album from anything he could possibly have produced in conjunction with his Sigur Rós bandmate... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010 -
MusicVictoria & Jacob – With No Certainty
Do you like Ellie Goulding and Owl City? Me neither, but enough do to make them two of 2010’s breakthrough acts. Those same people will likely ... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010 -
Music
Rufus Wainwright @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 15 April
This time last year, a production called Sonette by avant-garde stage director Robert Wilson and the Berliner Ensemble was premiered, based on twenty four of... Read more »| 22 Mar 2010 -
Art
Drinks Reception @ Quartermile
Is contemporary art depressed? Is it feeling disheartened, unfulfilled and forlorn? Is something missing? If the latest exhibition by ECA’s sculpture ... Read more »| 21 Mar 2010