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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MusicVillagers – Becoming a Jackal
It seems every other week there’s a sensitive soul, acoustic guitar in tow, streams of literary loveliness, and a big burning candle of compete... Read more »| 25 May 2010 -
MusicBear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Just as ‘Hollywood’ no longer refers solely to a geographical place but an idea or style, ‘Brooklyn’, in music, has become a state of... Read more »| 25 May 2010 -
MusicChrome Hoof – Crush Depth
‘Experimental orchestra’ Chrome Hoof seem to get weirder and more ambitious with each release. On Crush Depth the early electronic influences are... Read more »| 25 May 2010 -
Music
Bronto Skylift – The White Crow
They say a band is only as good as its drummer, and with that in mind Bronto Skylift could be an earth-shattering proposition. Technical proficiency is somet... Read more »| 25 May 2010 -
MusicCrystal Castles Debut Album Review
There are two faces to Ontario’s Crystal Castles, both physically and musically. Comprised of show-stealing frontwoman Alice Glass and the seemingly re... Read more »| 25 May 2010 -
Music
Taylor Hawkins & the Coattail Riders - Red Light Fever
While Foo Fighters have settled into the complacent middle-age of stadium rock, drummer Taylor Hawkins isn’t going down without a fight. Most of the so... Read more »| 25 May 2010
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Music
Appaloosa - Savana
Appaloosa peddle some rather tasty instrumental funk-rock. And, just to clarify, that’s genuine, butt-shaking beauties, rather than the kind of white-g... Read more »| 25 May 2010 -
Books
Filmish #2 by Edward Ross
Issue 2 of the occasional comics-as-film-criticism series Filmish is not only a great, entertaining read like the first one, but also a more refined product ... Read more »| 25 May 2010 -
Music
Dan Sartain - Lives
In these superficial times, spending a career dressed top to tail in rockabilly garb singles anyone out as a little strange. But rather than masquerading as ... Read more »| 24 May 2010 -
Music
The Brian Jonestown Massacre @ O2 ABC, 18 May
Newcombe and his band dispatch the hits with relentless purpose Read more »| 24 May 2010 -
BooksFilmish #1 by Edward Ross
This nifty little comic is something of a labour of love by writer/artist Edward Ross. It presents 3 lectures by him on film theory in graphic form, and in t... Read more »| 24 May 2010 -
Music
Dapayk Solo – Decade One (2000-2010)
The first part of this two-disc retrospective of Dapayk Solo is subtitled ‘For Headphones, Couches and Cars’, and accordingly contains a selectio... Read more »| 24 May 2010 -
Theatre
Hand Me Down
An insight into the women of one family is brought onto the stage Read more »| 23 May 2010 -
Music
Dinosaur Jr / Built to Spill @ O2 ABC, 13 May
As double-headers go, seeing slacker rock brethren Built to Spill and Dinosaur Jr share a bill feels well-matched like a Hansel vs Zoolander walk-off. Tonigh... Read more »| 21 May 2010 -
Theatre
Coconut Badger Sniffing Out Success
Mark MacNicol, the premier playwright, producer and director of the play The Coconut Badger shows that if you want to make something happen, be honest, be gutsy and be proactive Read more »| 21 May 2010