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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MusicAltered Beasts: Vessels Interviewed
As Vessels take latest album Dilate to the festival circuit, the compelling Leeds five-piece swap guitars for synths. They tell The Skinny why their switch to electronica should come as no surprise. Read more »| 21 Aug 2015 -
Art
Dismaland: Jessica Harrison on Banksy's exhibition
Dismaland, the major new exhibition curated by graffiti artist Banksy, opens tomorrow – we speak to exhibiting artist Jessica Harrison. Read more »| 20 Aug 2015 -
Music
Arthur Russell's Instrumentals @ Liverpool Kazimier, 11 August
If you’ve spent the past few years regularly attending gigs or clubs in Liverpool then chances are you would have heard the different sides of Arthur R... Read more »| 20 Aug 2015 -
MusicBlanck Mass joins Pleasance Sessions weekender
Blanck Mass will take the stage on a bill featuring RM Hubbert, Outblinker and BDY_PRTS for our night at this year’s Pleasance Sessions weekender in Edinburgh. Read more »| 20 Aug 2015 -
Clubs
The Garden Party turns 10
The Faversham’s much-loved Garden Party celebrates its tenth anniversary with a full-blown festival this month. The Skinny speaks to co-organiser Matt Long to find out more Read more »| 20 Aug 2015 -
MusicTrack Premiere: Django Django vs The Phantom Band – 'Shake and Tremble'
The Phantom Band premiere their twist on Django Django's 'Shake and Tremble', from their latest album Born Under Saturn Read more »| 19 Aug 2015
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Music
Pieces of a Man: A Gil Scott-Heron primer
Crunching four decades and 13 albums down into a greatest hits? We'd never dare. These are just a few stepping stones along the great poet's path Read more »| 19 Aug 2015 -
Film
Colors
Three years before Boyz n the Hood portrayed social problems in inner-city Los Angeles, Dennis Hopper’s Colors took a look at actual East LA gangs and ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2015 -
Film
State of Grace
Phil Joanou's Sean Penn-starring mob movie State of Grace was originally released around the same time as Goodfellas, so first time round it might as well ha... Read more »| 19 Aug 2015 -
Art
The Week in Scottish Art: Edinburgh Art Fest & more
Dundee has its Masters degree show, Edinburgh's got a Sunday full of Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, and Glasgow's CCA presents performance work inspired by cowboys and mediums in our weekly art round-up. Read more »| 18 Aug 2015 -
Music
The Black Sorrows @ The Spiegeltent, Edinburgh, 12 August
With one hot solo per song, a tight band sound, the occasional bat-out-of-heck howl, and the kind of drumming you don't notice (even, unfortunately, during a... Read more »| 14 Aug 2015 -
Music
Yorkston Thorne Khan – The Blues You Sang: Anatomy of a Song
Filmed as part of Summerhall's Nothing Ever Happens Here gig series, we present 'Anatomy of a Song'. Episode one focuses on the burgeoning colla... Read more »| 14 Aug 2015 -
Music
Northwest Music News – 14 Aug: Kepla, Doctrines + more
Our latest fortnightly missive from the Northwest includes music from No Pain In Pop Records, Alcopop! and returning members of We Came Out Like Tigers. Read more »| 14 Aug 2015 -
Music
Dr. Dre – Compton
“My life’s like a soundtrack I wrote to the beat,” Andre Young rapped way back on Still D.R.E., lead single off 1999’s sextuple-plati... Read more »| 13 Aug 2015 -
Music
Laura Cannell – Beneath Swooping Talons
Laura Cannell's (bloody) chamber music is the kind of artistry that pays back the courageous listener in spades. Her album notes speak of "pure music without... Read more »| 13 Aug 2015