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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MusicRobbie Lesiuk – Nobody's Listening
Falkirk artist Robbie Lesiuk is best known as a former member of Y'all Is Fantasy Island, and for his ongoing collaborations with friend and former bandmate ... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
MusicListen: Download two free compilations, featuring S-Type and Miaoux Miaoux
Download two free compilations featuring leading lights of the Glasgow electronic music scene, LuckyMe's S-Type, and Miaoux Miaoux Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
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Tomorrow We Sail – For Those Who Caught the Sun in Flight
Gizeh Records is a paragon of consistency, not only in terms of the quality of its output but in the overlaps and similarities between those on its roster. W... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
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A.R.C. Soundtracks – Archive: Volume One
Following in the footsteps of electronic artists like The Haxan Cloak and Raime, and the magisterial post-rock of Godspeed You! Black Emperor as closely as A... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
MusicPoemss – Poemss
Showing a different side of Planet Mu mainstay Aaron Funk, better known as Venetian Snares, this collaboration with Toronto producer and vocalist Joanne Poll... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
MusicKeel Her – Keel Her
While this self-titled collection is officially Keel Her’s debut album, Rose Keeler-Schäffeler is no debutant. Since 2011, the Brighton-based song... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014
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Art
RSA New Contemporaries 2014: The Shock of the New
A solid must-see in Scotland’s contemporary art calendar, RSA New Contemporaries serves up a fresh slice of Zeitgeist from Scotland’s most talented emergent artists, and its sixth annual incarnation looks set to be the most competitive yet Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
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DMX to fight George Zimmerman?
In this week's weirdest news story, it emerges that rapper DMX will fight the acquitted killer of Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
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Mark Cousins and Filmhouse tour the UK with Cinema of Childhood season
Edinburgh's Filmhouse and documentary maker Mark Cousins present a very special season exploring the history of children in film, touring the UK from April Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
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Lo-Fang – Blue Film
The debut album by LA's Matthew Hemerlein, aka Lo-Fang, sits comfortably alongside the neo-soul of James Blake, the spectral, ethereal hip-hop/R 'n' B of Twi... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
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Let's Wrestle – Let's Wrestle
After two full doses of rewardingly ramshackle indie-rock (2009’s In the Court of the Wrestling Let’s and 2011’s Nursing Home), Let’s... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
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The Skinny Showcase: Josephine Hicks
Josephine Hicks Straddling the brackets of design, illustration and contemporary print, Liverpool-based artist Josephine Hicks has been honing her craft thr... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
ArtEdward Chell: Soft Estate @ The Bluecoat, Liverpool, until 23 Feb
Edward Chell is an artist who can often be seen in a high-visibility jacket and hard hat exploring the verges of many major roads around the UK. Althoug... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
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Nina Persson – Animal Heart
With A Camp having last borne fruit in 2009 and The Cardigans’ recording hiatus ongoing, Nina Persson’s debut solo record qualifies as something ... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
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Temples – Sun Structures
Psychedelic. There, it’s been said. This record is so unmistakably of the genre and of an era that you can’t avoid the word, but Temples’ h... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014