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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MusicThe Skinny's 50th Issue: I Hear a New Gramophone
To mark the 50th issue of The Skinny, music columnists Milo McLaughlin and Sean Michaels got on the blower (well, Skype) for a transatlantic chinwag about the Scottish music scene and how it's all changed since the magazine began in 2005. Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
MusicWarp Week: Nightmares on Wax – The Journey Continues
Veteran producer George ‘DJ E.A.S.E.’ Evelyn, the man behind the sounds of Nightmares on Wax, gives a candid account of his two decades long pilgrimage through acid house, trip-hop and beyond. Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
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Drums of Death @ Playdate, 28 Nov
Shock, horror and make up. Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
BooksPlease Praise Gray's Plays...
The Skinny is helping to launch an Alasdair Gray Book - want to come? Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
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Warp Week: Hudson Mohawke melts genres like Butter!
Our November cover star Hudson Mohawke doesn’t sound like anything else that’s come before – or at least, not for long. The rising star of genre-defying, thrill-a-minute underground uber-pop tells us why he can’t sit still. Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
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Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land
Frightened Rabbit's success is based on nothing resembling modernity: ever since the first lovesick caveman grunted a tune, his descendants have been... Read more »| 28 Oct 2009
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The Raincoats: Unacceptable in the 80s
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Raincoats' seminal debut with its first commercial issue in 10 years this month, founding member Gina Birch recalls a world of possibilities during the formative years of the cult all-female post-punk outfit. Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
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Halloween Clubbing 2009
A look at what you can expect in clubs across the country this Halloween weekend. Apart from people dressed as the various stages of Michael Jackson's life. Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
TheatreMaster Gaga
He comes from New York, via the RSAMD and displays a Glaswegian caustic humour. Will the real Drew Taylor please stand up? Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
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Warp Records: They Came from the Future
As Warp Records blows out twenty candles, The Skinny talks to a cast of characters from its intimidating roster about the indelible mark the UK's biggest independent label has made on popular music. Read more »| 27 Oct 2009 -
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Under the Influence: Melvins' Buzz Osborne
Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne takes to his hammock, engages the caps lock and lifts the lid on his desert island discs Read more »| 27 Oct 2009 -
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Trapped in Kansas
They read Stephen Hawking, question the laws of physics and still find a minute to make a wave on the local circuit. There's only one Trapped in Kansas. Read more »| 27 Oct 2009 -
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Warp Essentials
With so many classic releases on Warp, it’s hard to know where to begin and easy to overlook some of the output. Here’s our pick of the absolute must-haves Read more »| 27 Oct 2009 -
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King Khan & BBQ Show - Invisible Girl
One can’t accuse King Khan or Mark Sultan (aka BBQ) of laziness: following their Almighty Defenders ‘supergroup’ LP, the pair fire off Invi... Read more »| 27 Oct 2009 -
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Live Music Highlights - November, 2009
Death is the only acceptable excuse for non-attendance of Jay Reatard's upcoming sweat festival at King Tut's on 11 Nov Read more »| 27 Oct 2009