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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MusicMonsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
Americana supergroup hit the spot with superb debut release Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Music
++Money Can't Buy Music - The Universe for Beginners
Gordon McIntyre has steadfastedly ploughed the emotive indie furrow since the late 1990s in the guise of ballboy, but here branches out into a collaboration ... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
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The Dodos - Time to Die
Second album syndrome shouldn’t affect The Dodos’ latest LP - Time to Die is actually the San Francisco outfit’s third studio recording. Ye... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
MusicChuck Ragan - Gold Country
Citing “musical differences” after a band splits is generally doublespeak aimed at sparing blushes until the bloody truth makes its inevitable ap... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
MusicBurnsong 2009: Get Yer Entries In
Burnsong 2006 provided the catalyst that combined a stellar variety of musicians in one melting pot, united by the common goal to write and rehearse songs th... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
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Withered Hand - Good News
By the time Edinburgh's Withered Hand opens Good News's final track with "maybe the world would be better without me", you'll want to give him a slap and tel... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009
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The Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant
The addition of iconic Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr brings discernible maturity to the structure of The Cribs' fourth album. While still guitar-heavy and fra... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
Art
Art Late!
Thursdays might be the official late-shopping days, but this week will be different. From 6pm onwards, art galleries throughout Edinburgh will welcome visito... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
Comedy
Women Stand Up
Female comics of the world stand up to be counted. Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
ComedyImprov Wars
Improv Wars joins regular feature Dance Monkey Boy Dance as your Monday night entertainment at the Glasgow Stand. Featuring well established local comics su... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
Music
Frightened Rabbit @ Queen's Hall, 18 Aug
Unlike their winged namesakes, the Moth and the Mirror initially find the bright lights of the Queens’s Hall less than attractive, not relaxing until t... Read more »| 22 Aug 2009 -
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Sunset Rubdown @ Stereo, 10 Sep
Montreal band tour their brilliant new album, Dragonslayer Read more »| 21 Aug 2009 -
Music
Maps – Turning the Mind
On Maps’ Mercury nominated debut album, bedroom recording prodigy James Chapman sounded like an especially blissed-out shoegazer (if such a paradox is ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2009 -
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Hockey @ King Tut's, 20 Sep
Not long out of their wrapper and Hockey’s party vibe is already proving as divisive as yeast spread. Their indie-rock shapes, tinged with electro-pop ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2009 -
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Broken Records @ Queen's Hall, 17 Aug
You only need one peek at tonight’s undercard to gauge the heights Broken Records have scaled. Twelve months ago a verbatim line-up would have seen My... Read more »| 21 Aug 2009