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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FilmThe Kids Are All Right
A fitting queer comedy-drama with its heart in the right place. Read more »| 04 Nov 2010 -
Music
Twin Shadow – Forget
Like post-dawn melancholia after a glittering soiree, Forget is alternately bittersweet and euphoric. The debut album from Twin Shadow (AKA George Lewis Jr.)... Read more »| 04 Nov 2010 -
FilmThe American
The American is low on incident but rich in mood. Watching Corbijn’s follow-up to Control (2006) is like flicking through a portfolio of the former mus... Read more »| 04 Nov 2010 -
Music
Over the Wall: Working On a Dream
Having banked our house on Over the Wall being one of "the next guid things" in 2009, we subsequently lost everything and now run this magazine from a wigwam made of chip wrappers. But you can't rush perfection... Read more »| 03 Nov 2010 -
Music
My Little Cheap Dictaphone – The Tragic Tale Of A Genius
My Little Cheap Dictaphone might rank among the naffest band names you'll hear all year, but thankfully their music fares better. The group is the brainchild... Read more »| 03 Nov 2010 -
Music
Kyuss returning to Glasgow without Josh Homme
Following the success of frontman John Garcia's 'Plays Kyuss' tour earlier this year, fellow core members of the seminal Palm Desert stoner outfit are set to... Read more »| 03 Nov 2010
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MusicWinnebago Deal – Career Suicide
To avoid confusion, I would like to point out that this third full length LP entitled Career Suicide is by punk rock 'n' roll duo Winnebago Deal; not the arg... Read more »| 03 Nov 2010 -
Music
Swans @ The Arches, 25 October
Opening for Swans must be one of the most daunting tasks an artist can face but James Blackshaw takes it calmly; almost too calmly, in fact. His nonplussed a... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Music
The Proposition: George Michael is the Most Dangerous Man in Rock'n'Roll
George Michael is the single most dangerous man in music. That, by the way, is not just because he might record again. Have you followed this maniac's path ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Music
Motorifik – Secret Things
It’s always a disappointment when a band call themselves something like Motorifik, the very syllables of which drip with dirty oil, sweaty leather and ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Music
Shipping News – One Less Heartless To Fear
As the band themselves declare, "one helluva lot has happened" to Shipping News since their terrific 2005 album Flies The Field. With founder guitarist Jason... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
MusicShugo Tokumaru – Port Entropy
Live, Shugo Tokumaru plies his trade with little more than an acoustic guitar and an effects pedal or two. It’s near impossible to imagine Port Entropy... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Music
Earth – A Bureaucratic Desire For Extracapsular Extraction
This almighty bastard of an album represents the collation of Earth's two early EPs and comes resplendent with that same sense of chilling, north-western nih... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Books
Surface Detail by Iain M Banks
This is Iain M Banks’ 11th sci-fi novel, and 8th featuring the utopian socialist space society The Culture. The plot revolves around events in ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
MusicKing Cannibal – The Way of the Ninja
A back catalogue 20 years old is fertile ground for someone tasked with assembling a retrospective; given Ninja Tune’s history as an innovator in recor... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010