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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MusicDrinks on Dr Pepper? Chinese Democracy Leaks
After many years of personnel changes, questions over whether the album even existed and much in the way of general mincing about, might the wait for Axl's opus finally be over? Read more »| 19 Jun 2008 -
MusicWeezer – Weezer
On the strength of Weezer’s third self-titled album, it could be perceived as though Rivers Cuomo set out just to mess with us when he embarked on a ca... Read more »| 19 Jun 2008 -
Music
The Kills - Last Day of Magic
Could prove something of a Venus Fly Trap for those who haven’t quite subscribed Read more »| 19 Jun 2008 -
MusicRoland Appel: Solo Soldier
Colin Chapman turns his attentions to the ever-successful Sonar Kollectiv label, and the shiny new debut LP from house artist Roland Appel Read more »| 19 Jun 2008 -
Music
The Music @ ABC, 5 Jul
The second coming of The Music finds them working their way towards fulfilling those early stadium ambitions Read more »| 18 Jun 2008 -
Music
Wounded Knee - Mystic Mixtape
This psychedelic and schizophrenic outburst jumps from peak to trough unheeded and is quite unlike anything these ears have heard in, well, ever Read more »| 18 Jun 2008
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MusicBlack Affair - It's Real
Lacks a punch, but provides a caress Read more »| 18 Jun 2008 -
Clubs
Druzzi (The Rapture) @ We are Electric, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, 2 July
We are Electric continues in its quest to source new and exciting DJs for the Edinburgh populous Read more »| 18 Jun 2008 -
Clubs
Swayzak @ Bleep, Stereo, Glasgow, 5 Jul
With not one but two parties on the same Saturday, Bleep offers a veritable smorgasbord of live and DJ talent this month. The newest addition to Glasgow unde... Read more »| 18 Jun 2008 -
Music
White Williams - Violator
White Williams' remixable second single Violator is a fine example of his debut album Smoke's goofy charm Read more »| 18 Jun 2008 -
Film
The Ruins
One of those films that just creeps up on you Read more »| 18 Jun 2008 -
Music
Isa and the Filthy Tongues @ The Granary, 7 Jun
A show of assured psychobilly delivered in a suitably debauched manner Read more »| 17 Jun 2008 -
Music
goNORTH @ Dundee, 5 Jun
The majority of the bands we’ve scurried around the streets of Dundee to catch today can surely only have a swift ascent to look forward to Read more »| 17 Jun 2008 -
Music
N*E*R*D - Seeing Sounds
The world hasn't exactly been waiting with anguished impatience on their return Read more »| 17 Jun 2008 -
Music
Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
Slug and Ant have created a potent fusion of synthesized funk with third person narratives Read more »| 17 Jun 2008