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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MusicDie! Die! Die! - Die! Die! Die!
Searing art-rock with occasional quiet moments, juxtaposed with frenetic punk blasts and crazed screeches. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Tapes 'n Tapes - Omaha
...distinct final-single-from-an-album kind of feel... Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Less Than Jake - P.S. Shock The World
The chorus protrudes from the middle of the track like some hideous flesh wound. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Kiddo - 135 Days EP
Kiddo create their own sound, built up from the dilettantish rhythms that seep into the lead guitar lines. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
MusicGet Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - War Of The Worlds
sounds good for a while, then it just dies on itself. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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The Ordinary Boys - How To Get Everything You Ever Wanted In Ten Easy Steps (B-Unique)
a tragically limp record determined to ride the crest of an opportunist wave Read more »| 12 Dec 2006
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Susurrus Station - 1,2 Unbuckle the Blue
Walks a tightrope between the obliquely poetic and the plain pretentious Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Yourcodenameis:milo - Print Is Dead Vol. 1
The results are often shocking. The Trapeze Artist is brutal and comes with chopped, heavy riffing and manic wails, yet features The Automatic. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Puerto Muerto - Songs Of Muerto County Relived
Hauntingly beautiful at times, melancholic at others, Puerto Muerto is soporose and quixotic all at once. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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The Datsuns @ Cabaret Voltaire
Rock n roll was never meant to be this boring. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Chicks on Speed / The Wraiths @ The Caves
paint and strobe were splashed everywhere, and nudity erupted on a wide scale
""they are the channelled spirits of two fourteenth century monks"" Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Calexico & Beirut @ ABC
Calexico may be tonight's headliners, but in the months to come it'll be the sound of Beirut that fiddles its way into your heart. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny
There are only so many times you can rhyme ""rock"" with ""cock"" and still generate laughs. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Shortbus Q+A with director John Cameron Mitchell
Shortbus began as a formal exercise in showing sex in a film in a way I hadn't seen. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Jackass Number Two
Often hilarious, occasionally unwatchable. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006