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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BooksThe Long Glasgow Kiss
“If there’s one thing I can say about your veiled threats, Superintendent, it’s that they’re all threat and no veil.” T... Read more »| 23 Sep 2010 -
MusicDinosaur Pile-Up – Growing Pains
Growing Pains harks back to a pre-millennial indie rock sound, somewhere around when Ash were gonna be the next big thing. And, with Dinosaur Pile-Up’s... Read more »| 23 Sep 2010 -
Music
MGMT @ Barrowlands, 20 Sep
Scrutinise reactions tonight and a pattern emerges. Electric Feel – recorded for posterity on a sea of mobile phones. Siberian Breaks – chatter. ... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
BooksPuffin by Design by Phil Baines
Penguin and Puffin books have been celebrating their 80th anniversary this year, and this lovely little book is a tribute to the design of the Puffin... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
Music
Wounded Knee – House Music
Drew Wright is an Edinburgh freak-folker whose work as Wounded Knee has thus far divided critical opinion at The Skinny, dazzling some while bemusing others.... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
MusicOf Montreal @ QMU, 4 Oct
In recent years, the Of Montreal experience has cultivated its theatricality to bold new heights – supporting the extended space-sex jam of Skeletal La... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010
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Music
Maps & Atlases – Perch Patchwork
Chicago four piece Maps & Atlases have been the beneficiaries of a fair bit of hype and earned the strange and vague tag ‘math rock’ before e... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
MusicUnnatural Helpers – Cracked Love And Other Drugs
The most obvious starting point for new inductees to the work of Unnatural Helpers is that they are Mudhoney's European tour support and what a very ... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
Music
Rustie - Sunburst EP
Rustie's intermittent 12"s, remixes and guest spots have made him a minor sensation at 'in the know' club scenes around the globe, but with Sunburst he scale... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
Music
KT Tunstall - Tiger Suit
In promo interviews for this, her third long player, sing-a-long-pop-with-substance songstress KT Tunstall has talked of her desire to repeat the success of ... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
Books
Novgorod the Great by Andrew Drummond
Andrew Drummond’s Novgorod the Great is an intriguing historical novel set primarily in Russia, but ambitiously broad in scope. In 1833, two tr... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
Music
The Black Keys @ O2 Academy, 28 Oct
This Ohio duo, comprising guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney, have been having a good year. With their latest release Brothers shooting to num... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
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Wilco @ Barrowland, 16 Sep
There are presumably few more comfortable bed-rocks from which to launch a solo project than having Radiohead listed as a current employer. To make things si... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
Music
Grinderman: Warren Ellis
The second part of our Grinderman series sees electric bouzouki, Mandocastor, violin, viola and acoustic guitar player Warren Ellis wondering if he sounds like a knob Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
Music
Pacific! – Narcissus
As synthetic harpsichord razors through Jean-Michelle Jarre futurism, the atmosphere conjured by Swedish duo Pacific! on opener Arcadia is so thick with ludi... Read more »| 21 Sep 2010