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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MusicMugstar – Magnetic Seasons
Heavyweight psychedelic Liverpudlians Mugstar return with a record that takes tripped-out space rock to its disorienting maximum. Exclusively instrumental (a... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
MusicRichard J Birkin – Vigils
Inspired by river mist and Murakami, and carrying echoes of Nils Frahm and Max Richter’s Sleep, sound artist/composer Birkin’s new work is behold... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
MusicWintersleep – The Great Detachment
Now a decade and a half into their career, the typically dependable Canadian rockers return with their first LP since 2012's Hello Hum. Produced by Tony... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
Music
M. Ward – More Rain
If you’re scanning these pages for a record your granny might be into, this is the one. Also known for his work alongside Zooey Deschanel as the other ... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
Music
Låpsley – Long Way Home
Despite making her name, initially, with spectral, minimalist bedroom productions, Liverpudlian artist Låpsley explores new territory on her debut Long... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
Music
Chin of Britain – The Weasel is at the Bridge
Get into the groove. The follow-up to Chin Keeler's 2013 debut is a pared-down, trippy brew of bracing beats and spiralling wig-outs. As ever, Keeler pl... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016
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Film
Five to see at GFF, 25 Feb: Wild at Heart & more
Today at Glasgow Film Festival, join Nic Cage and Laura Dern on the run in Wild at Heart and Kate Dickie and Paul Higgins in a cave in Couple in a Hole, plus... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
Music
Wussy – Forever Sounds
Back in 2012, Robert Christgau, self-proclaimed Dean of American rock critics, said Wussy “have been the best band in America since they released the f... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
Books
"We have religion because we’re mortal" - Yann Martel
The Skinny catches up with the Booker Prize winning Life of Pi author while touring his new novel The High Mountains of Portugal. He talks life and death, animals and religion – from that now famous maritime Tiger, to his new chimp star Read more »| 24 Feb 2016 -
MusicSavages / Bo Ningen @ The Art School, 21 Feb
Savages’ sound check starts, and a heavy, heavy kick-drum reverberates through everyone’s stomachs. “Ooft,” gasps a very bearded man,... Read more »| 24 Feb 2016 -
Clubs
nd_baumecker / The Black Madonna @ Sub Club, 19 Feb
Despite the relentless drizzle falling from ominous skies, a queue has managed to snake its way down the side of Jamaica Street by the back of 10.30pm, ... Read more »| 24 Feb 2016 -
Comedy
A Tribute to Melbourne Comedy Festival
Despite Glasgow and the Fringe, Scotland doesn't have a monopoly on comedy festivals. Edinburgh based Aussie Shannon Dymond introduces us to her hometown and one of the best comedy festivals in the world, as it celebrates a special birthday Read more »| 24 Feb 2016 -
Music
Poliça – United Crushers
Nervy percussion, spare arrangements, Channy Leaneagh's distinctive vocals: Poliça are as easily identifiable as ever, despite not bein... Read more »| 24 Feb 2016 -
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Jo Mango & Friends – Wrack Lines EP
A wrack line is the word for the trail of washed-up detritus the tide leaves behind upon the beach. In the context of Jo Mango’s project, it also descr... Read more »| 24 Feb 2016 -
MusicPrince Rama – Xtreme Now
How could you not judge this record by its cover? Mona Lisa’s smug little grin is re-formed by disembodied legs dressed in Byzantine-themed leggings, a... Read more »| 24 Feb 2016