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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MusicTrack-by-track: The Phantom Band's Guide to The Wants
Strap yourself in as robo-folk's finest follow-up last year's inventive opus, Checkmate Savage this month. Track-by-track, The Phantom Band unveil The Wants... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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Swans: The Ecstatic
The Phantom Band's Rick Anthony engages Michael Gira, mainstay of recently resurrected New York no wave crusaders Swans and founder of Young God Records Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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Ice Cube: "I never left the game, the game’s trying to leave me"
From his furious beginnings with NWA to a latter-day rebirth as the lord of light family entertainment, this month Ice Cube returns to answer the critics who say Hollywood has diminished his edge Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
MusicYeasayer's Chris Keating: "It’s all about not getting bored"
Chris Keating looks back at the success of second album Odd Blood whilst keeping an eye on the band’s glittering future Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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Jamie Kenyon: Baptism by Fire
In the lead up to the Tatham & O'Sullivan show at the CCA we speak to new Programmer Jamie Kenyon about how he's settling into his new job Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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The Inquisition: Warpaint
Jenny Lee Lindberg from all-girl Los Angeles art rock quartet Warpaint gave us riddles when we asked for answers Read more »| 28 Sep 2010
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MusicStarter For Eleven: Mudhoney
Mudhoney's Mark Arm and Steve Turner do battle over a quiz that charts the ages of our musical heritage for a glorious haggis supper prize Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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Grinding up the Bad Seeds
It's been debated as to whether or not there is a point to Grinderman. Here, Nick Cave and cohorts lay out the case for the defence Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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The Proposition: Bono is a Chump, But He's Better Than You
Bono really is an irritating little creep isn't he? That's the general consensus right? This is the guy who campaigns for, amongst other things, a higher pol... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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Deconstructing: Fever Ray
Karin Dreijer Andersson talks about reinventing the Fever Ray live show, working with her brother and why she decided to go solo Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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Heidi Talbot – The Last Star
Made in Ireland and based in Edinburgh, Heidi Talbot's lilting cadence may be most familiar as a collaborator with Drever, McCusker and Woomble and I... Read more »| 27 Sep 2010 -
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Roska & Untold - Myth
Omnipotent IDM megalith Hyperdub haven't ringfenced the entire flock of elite UK Funky 12" quite yet – Numbers’ latest offering from me... Read more »| 27 Sep 2010 -
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Engineers – In Praise of More
With the release of 2009’s Three Fact Fader being delayed due to undisclosed band politics, it may seem par for the course that London-based Engineers ... Read more »| 27 Sep 2010 -
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Colour of Sound – When
Self-declared “epic” indie band Colour of Sound sonically explore every hue from grey to vanilla on debut album When. Their brand of mid-tempo, i... Read more »| 27 Sep 2010 -
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Ice, Sea, Dead People – Teeth Union
Upon being confronted with a record by a band called Ice, Sea, Dead People and an accompanying press release consisting of a short story chronicling an incid... Read more »| 27 Sep 2010