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 Gaslight Anthem / Japandroids @ O2 Academy, 24 March
Japandroids still have a rising profile, but they're underdogs compared to tonight's stadium-fit headliners. Regardless, the Vancouver-based guitar and ... Read more »| 29 Mar 2013 -
MusicBonobo – The North Borders
The fifth LP from Brighton’s Bonobo (aka Simon Green) opens in understated style, as Grey Reverend’s brooding vocals overlay the gently shimmerin... Read more »| 29 Mar 2013 -
ArtThe Modern Lesbian @ Contact, Manchester, Until 20 Apr
While there’s a lot of laughter in the faces of the ‘modern lesbians’ of Rachel Adams' new exhibition The Modern Lesbian at Contact, the ov... Read more »| 29 Mar 2013 -
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Homework – 13 Towers
Live, this Edinburgh-based electro-rock quartet have (in these pages) been compared to LCD Soundsystem, although on record that comparison somewhat overstate... Read more »| 29 Mar 2013 -
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Lubomyr Melnyk – Corollaries
Complex, sparse and beguiling, the new album by celebrated avant garde neo-classical composer Lubomyr Melnyk is a delight from start to finish. Melnyk's tech... Read more »| 29 Mar 2013 -
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Church of Noise – April 2013
You'd be surprised by the number of ways you can lose your hearing Read more »| 29 Mar 2013
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Music
WALL – Shoestring EP
WALL made her debut last year with a cover of Karen Dalton's Something On Your Mind, a sparse, understated, synth-led number which showcased her subtle vocal... Read more »| 29 Mar 2013 -
BooksAn Exquisite Sense of What is Beautiful by J. David Simons
J. David Simons’ new novel is primarily noteworthy for the ambition it shows in tackling difficult, often uncomfortable themes. Flitting between the yo... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
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Life Coach – Alphawaves
Originally conceived as a solo outlet for Trans Am founder Phil Manley’s homage to late krautrock visionary Conny Plank, this second album as Life Coac... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
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The Knife – Shaking the Habitual
Accompanied by a manifesto expressing distaste for the 'already imagined', siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer's first record as The Knife in s... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
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Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats – Mind Control
Mt. Abraxis, the cinematic opener from Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats' second full-length, starts out with sorrowful guitar licks and steadily paced cymbal c... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
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Louie – Lost On Hope Street
The front man of incendiary live hip-hop band Hector Bizerk steps out from the shadows with an intensely personal, viscerally political album of hip-hop trac... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
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Wiley – The Ascent
Another Wiley album, another threat from perhaps the last surviving well-known grime rapper with any credibility left to retire – leaving us to the ten... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
Theatre
Quiz Master: Rob Drummond
Playwright, actor and 'amateur cosmologist' Rob Drummond has two new plays coming up – Quiz Show and The Riot Of Spring premiere in April and May this year. We caught up with him to talk about life, the universe and wrestling Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
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The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 27 March
Black Sun split; Pussy Riot on 60 minutes; Björk joins Berlin Festival; plus new music from Mount Kimbie, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Hey Colossus Read more »| 27 Mar 2013