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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FilmMoon Dogs
Road movie Moon Dogs has some appealing elements – including an impressive Anton Newcombe score – but its script's lame attempts at humour and general lack of imagination fail to charm Read more »| 29 Aug 2017 -
MusicRoddy Woomble – The Deluder
Roddy Woomble has gained a reputation in his solo work for being a bit of a folkie at heart but this fourth effort, The Deluder, sees him very much influence... Read more »| 29 Aug 2017 -
MusicMogwai – Every Country's Sun
On their ninth studio album, Mogwai combine elements from across their career into a monumental whole Read more »| 29 Aug 2017 -
Music
This Country's Sons: Mogwai's Enduring Legacy
Returning with their ninth studio album, Mogwai and their label Rock Action are more crucial than ever to the future of Scottish music Read more »| 29 Aug 2017 -
FilmUna
Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn star in Benedict Andrews' provocative debut based on David Harrower's acclaimed play Blackbird Read more »| 29 Aug 2017 -
Film
Cinema's strange glamorisation of fascists
With the rise of the alt-right, the protests at Charlottesville and the resurgence of Neo Nazism throughout Europe, we look at cinema's own troubled relationship to the Far Right Read more »| 29 Aug 2017
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Music
Room 29 @ King's Theatre, Edinburgh, 24 Aug
Jarvis Cocker and Chilly Gonzales regale with stories of room 29 at the Chateau Marmont tonight as part of the Edinburgh International Festival Read more »| 29 Aug 2017 -
Music
Scottish Music Highlights: 29 Aug - 4 Sep
Electric Fields returns, plus shows from Mac DeMarco, The xx, American Football, The Pastels and Jeffrey Lewis in this week's gig guide Read more »| 29 Aug 2017 -
Music
Best Girl Athlete – Baby Come Home (Track Premiere)
Listen to the new song from Aberdeen singer-songwriter Katie Buchan Read more »| 29 Aug 2017 -
Film
Five great British road movies
Ahead of the release of Scottish road movie Moon Dogs, we seek out five other examples of the few road movies made on the British Isles, from Christopher Petit's existential Radio On to the ridiculous cross country antics of Monty Python Read more »| 29 Aug 2017 -
Music
LCD Soundsystem – American Dream
LCD Soundsystem return as strong as ever, with their darkest sounding record to date Read more »| 28 Aug 2017 -
Music
Bridging the Divide: EMA interview
Who Will Survive In America? We speak to Erika M. Anderson and explore the dark heart of her third long player, Exile in the Outer Ring Read more »| 28 Aug 2017 -
Music
The Magnetic Fields @ King's Theatre, Edinburgh, 25-26 Aug
Stephin Merritt brings the dramatic, theatrical 50 Song Memoir to exquisite life at the Edinburgh International Festival Read more »| 28 Aug 2017 -
Music
Alvvays @ Saint Luke's, Glasgow, 27 Aug
Molly Rankin and Alvvays bring their new album Antisocialites to Glasgow for their first Scottish show since 2015 Read more »| 28 Aug 2017 -
Music
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Echo of Pleasure
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart carved out their niche very early into their career and have managed to stay neatly within it for all of this decade so far.... Read more »| 28 Aug 2017