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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FilmGFF 2012: Cry Parrot presents Umberto
With the contents of Umberto's special performance still shrouded in mystery, we talk to Cry Parrot's Fielding Hope about their collaboration for GMFF Read more »| 24 Feb 2012 -
MusicLee Ranaldo – Between the Times and the Tides
With any new Lee Ranaldo album, the first question to ask is: which Ranaldo? In Sonic Youth, his work veers from straight-up rock to obtuse noise; in his dow... Read more »| 23 Feb 2012 -
MusicGrimes – Visions
“I would say this is my psychedelic new jack swing IDM album,” says Claire Boucher without a trace of irony. She’s not too far off the mark... Read more »| 23 Feb 2012 -
Music
Spoek Mathambo – Father Creeper
Soweto’s Spoek Mathambo situates his music amidst contemporary collisions between traditional African styles and hip-hop, dubstep and house. Opener Kit... Read more »| 23 Feb 2012 -
Music
Dirty Three – Toward the Low Sun
Over the Dirty Three’s career, a tension has become increasingly apparent: between the narcotic rapture of their live performances, and the sense of so... Read more »| 23 Feb 2012 -
MusicTanlines – Mixed Emotions
Tanlines' debut Mixed Emotions is a disappointingly non-committal affair. The New York duo speak of their belief in the enduring legacy of great songwriting,... Read more »| 23 Feb 2012
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Film
GFF's Best Fiend: Werner Herzog
The CineSkinny profiles filmmaking genius Werner Herzog, whose new documentary, Into the Abyss, plays at the festival Read more »| 23 Feb 2012 -
Music
Hey Enemy – The Wrong Songs To Right Wrongs
At first glance Hey Enemy don't seem so unique; there are countless riff-orientated rockers out there, and then Pink Steam comes in with the kind of typicall... Read more »| 23 Feb 2012 -
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Hero Worship: Bruce Springsteen
York troubadour Benjamin Francis Leftwich bows down at The Boss's altar Read more »| 23 Feb 2012 -
FilmGFF 2012: Bob and the Monster
To be a junkie in L.A.’s eighties rock scene “was so important, it was so de rigueur,” drawls Courtney Love in new documentary Bob and the ... Read more »| 23 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: The Somnambulists
Inspired emotionally by his anger over the Iraq war, and stylistically by Joanna Kane’s photography exhibition of the same name, Richard Jobson’s... Read more »| 23 Feb 2012 -
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New Contemporaries 2012 @ RSA
It’s that time of year again, when the cream of last year’s graduation crop exhibit at the RSA New Contemporaries. It’s where the public is... Read more »| 23 Feb 2012 -
Music
The Machine Room – Love From A Distance EP
Edinburgh’s The Machine Room resemble a morning-after Delphic; they won’t necessarily make you dance, but their romantic melancholy could comfort... Read more »| 22 Feb 2012 -
Film
GFF 2012: 85A Presents Jan Svankmajer
The Glue Factory becomes a surreal playground as 85A collective take over the venue to bring to life the nutty images of legendary Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer Read more »| 22 Feb 2012 -
Film
Into The Abyss
Werner Herzog's latest enquiry into human nature takes him to Texas, where he explores the fallout from a decade-old murder. Into the Abyss is built around i... Read more »| 22 Feb 2012