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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MusicChickenhawk – Modern Bodies
This record actually marks the coming together of Chickenhawk's limited edition debut album and its following EP, awkwardly titled the A. Or Not?, plus Scorp... Read more »| 27 Oct 2010 -
Music
Snowblink – Long Live
Long Live first trickled into view in 2008, extolled by a handful of in-the-loop bloggers and publications as one of the year’s finest albums. Despite ... Read more »| 27 Oct 2010 -
ComedyIn Profile: Jason Cook
Jason Cook talks life, death, happiness and dolphins Read more »| 27 Oct 2010 -
Film
Mammoth
Lukas Moodysson's approach to filmmaking was becoming increasingly experimental, so it is a surprise to see how conventional Mammoth is. His follow-up to the... Read more »| 27 Oct 2010 -
Music
The Thermals – Personal Life
With their tinny, post-punk guitars and fragmented lyrical critiques of bible-belt America, Oregon three-piece The Thermals openly acknowledge their ideologi... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
MusicHow To Swim – Retina (or More Fun Than a Vat of Love)
Glasgow's How To Swim bring us their debut album, Retina (or More Fun Than a Vat of Love), with the promise of crossing as many musical borders as possible. ... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010
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Music
Teebs – Why Like This?
Los Angelite Teebs (Mtendere Mandowa) is another protégé of beatsmith Flying Lotus, whose music is released on his burgeoning Brainfeeder impri... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
Music
Moddi – Rubbles EP
A taster for a forthcoming album, Moddi is Norwegian born and bred Pal Moddi Knutsen who, judging by this EP, has a strong sense of identity with a firm gras... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
MusicTapso II – Tapso II
Tapso II are an Italian three-piece with an intuitive awareness of the dynamic possibilities of the power trio: whether via quiet bit/loud bit, fast bit/slow... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
Music
Weezer – Death To False Metal
Having nerded themselves silly over the past decade, Rivers Cuomo and co take stock of their lengthy career with a bastard collection of material that didn&r... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
Music
JC Satàn – Sick of Love
When a band appears with a name like JC Satàn I just want to like them; more so when I discover their tunes come wrapped in the kind of feedback swirl... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
Film
Get Him to the Greek
Russell Brand's turn as reclusive rock star Aldous Snow does little to stretch the comedian. The character, first seen in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, ... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
Theatre
Handy on The Keys
Can Musical Comedy be Tragic? Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
Art
New Work Scotland 2010 @ Collective
New Work Scotland kicks off again, and first up we have considerably dissimilar Glasgow based artists Shelly Nadashi and Jacob Kerray. Originally from Israe... Read more »| 25 Oct 2010 -
MusicPhil Anselmo's Hardcore Essentials
To celebrate his new band's debut album, Phil Anselmo presents his three point plan to unearthing the roots of hardcore Read more »| 25 Oct 2010