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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MusicRival Schools: Shot After Shot
With lyrics spanning Psychic Kids, sexy Italian actresses, and that primal urge for a can of juice, Walter Schreifels offers a taste of Rival Schools' long-awaited second album Read more »| 17 Jan 2011 -
FilmNEDS
What the fuck are you lookin' at? Did I say you could read my review? Did I? The Non-Educated Delinquent: aggressive, confrontational, relentlessly pressing ... Read more »| 14 Jan 2011 -
MusicRival Schools: Good Things
Nearly a decade after their debut album broke the mould, New York's Rival Schools return for round two in 2011. Frontman Walter Schreifels and guitarist Ian Love explain a welcome resurrection Read more »| 13 Jan 2011 -
MusicSore Eros – Know Touching
There’s something altogether endearing about Know Touching; a lo-fi, pretty sort of mess by Connecticut’s Sore Eros. Opener Shake The Walls brist... Read more »| 12 Jan 2011 -
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Seefeel – Seefeel
The release of this eponymous self-titled album from abstract electronic experimentalists Seefeel may represent their first in over fourteen years, but the r... Read more »| 11 Jan 2011 -
ArtMichael White – So Miami!! @ The Duchy Gallery
When is a lumpy plaster erection falsely elevated by a platform a challenge to the edifice of penis as phallic signifier, and when is it just another cock? ... Read more »| 11 Jan 2011
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Art
A Little Bit of Magic Realised: Susan Derges and Garry Fabian Miller @ Ingleby Gallery
In the words of photographer Matt Hardy, "Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograp... Read more »| 11 Jan 2011 -
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The Seventeenth Century – The Seventeenth Century (Part 1) EP
The first in a series of two introductory EPs, The Seventeenth Century are a band of young folkies with a taste for the grandiose. Mixing 4-part vocal harmon... Read more »| 10 Jan 2011 -
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Blue Valentine
In Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine we witness both the birth and death of a relationship. Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) have been toget... Read more »| 10 Jan 2011 -
Film
The Other Guys
Terry Hoitz (Wahlberg) and Allen Gamble (Ferrell) are mismatched partners in the New York detective bureau. Hoitz's contempt for spineless bureaucrat Gamble ... Read more »| 10 Jan 2011 -
Film
I'm Still Here
With the release of I'm Still Here it became clear that there was method to Joaquin Phoenix's madness. Method acting. His two year odyssey to become a rapper... Read more »| 07 Jan 2011 -
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22 Bullets
Luc Besson and Jean Reno take another shot at the French gangster thriller. Retired crime boss Charly (Reno), who has turned his back on the underworld, surv... Read more »| 07 Jan 2011 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen – January 2011
Just hours before taking the stage to perform their seminal 100 Broken Windows, Idlewild’s Rod Jones takes the January singles to task Read more »| 07 Jan 2011 -
Music
Iron and Wine: Poetry of the Deed
Sam Beam's lyrics are about what he would describe as “the pretty things and the scary things, like life itself.” Here's a look at the lives and works of four poets he draws inspiration from Read more »| 07 Jan 2011 -
Music
Iron and Wine: Glad Man Singing
Making an ambitious return with his lush fourth album this month, Iron & Wine's Sam Beam talks poetry, unicorns, and expanding his sound by going back in time Read more »| 07 Jan 2011