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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FilmEdge of Tomorrow
Based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s more memorably titled novel All You Need Is Kill, director Doug Liman's Edge of Tomorrow is basically a mash-up... Read more »| 28 May 2014 -
TheatreScottish Opera's Macbeth @ King's Theatre (Edinburgh)
For a relatively inexperienced opera-goer, the pared-back darkness of Dominic Hill’s Macbeth is an incredibly bracing experience Read more »| 28 May 2014 -
Music
Taylor McFerrin – Early Riser
Taylor McFerrin, eldest son of soul legend Bobby McFerrin, has signed to Brainfeeder, and it's an excellent fit; more to do with his carefully slack beat-wor... Read more »| 28 May 2014 -
Theatre
On Tour: Borderlands
To celebrate the 30th year of their existence, Dudendance take on the outdoors with their latest physical theatre production called Borderlands. As the title suggests, this involves a series of site-specific performances in the Scottish Borders Read more »| 28 May 2014 -
Musicclipping – CLPPNG
If you're eagerly anticipating the return of punk-rap terrorists Death Grips; if Kanye's Black Skinhead wasn't feral and intense enough to give you the feels, then LA's clipping are for you Read more »| 28 May 2014 -
MusicMartyn – The Air Between Words
Martyn's debut album Great Lengths was a standout in the first wave of post-dubstep. 2011's Ghost People, on Brainfeeder, was more restless and exp... Read more »| 28 May 2014
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Music
Fucked Up – Glass Boys
From their sprawling 75 minute debut to 2011's double LP David Comes to Life, Fucked Up have always presented themselves as an atypical punk band despite their expletive-dropping name Read more »| 28 May 2014 -
ArtECA Degree Show 2014: Making Space
If the thought of exposing your soul to the chin-stroking scrutiny of the public makes you want to curl up and hide then you will appreciate the feat bravely... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
Music
Nine Inch Nails @ The SSE Hydro, 20 May
Slinking on stage through mist to the sinister strains of The New Flesh, Trent Reznor somehow has everything and nothing to prove here tonight. With a track ... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
Music
Roll the Dice – Until Silence
Until Silence’s lingering power stems from its galvanising contrasts. For instance, the way the uncompromising Coup De Grace (a visceral combination of... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
Music
Chris Devotion and The Expectations – Break Out
Break Out is both a title and a statement of intent for Chris Devotion. Together with his band, he's earned a considerable rep around Glasgow as a thrilling ... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
Music
Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal
There’s an uneasy cheeriness in the way Andrew Savage utters “I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe” towards the end of Instant Dissassembly’s naggingly repetitious seven minutes, ten songs into Parquet Courts’ addictively disquieting third LP Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
Music
Alpha Male Tea Party – Droids
Whoever thought up such a ridiculous genre name as ‘math rock’ anyway? It’s just counting. No sums involved. No challenge, unless you find ... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
Music
King Buzzo – This Machine Kills Artists
They said it couldn’t happen. They said it shouldn’t… oh, OK. We’re fibbing. Still, after 31 years and 19 Melvins albums, it seems o... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
Music
The Phantom Band – Strange Friend
Three and a half years is a long time to wait for a Phantom Band record. The Wants, a dark, brooding beast, was unleashed on listeners still punch-drunk from... Read more »| 27 May 2014