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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MusicAera – Offseason Traveller
The debut LP from this Berlin-based producer, mainly known for his quietly seductive house output, confronts the structural difficulties which LPs sometimes ... Read more »| 27 Feb 2013 -
MusicPost War Years – Galapagos
All Eyes, the opening track on this Hackney-based quartet’s second LP, opens proceedings with bold but unwieldy bluster: a slow, grandiose would-be ant... Read more »| 27 Feb 2013 -
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Conny Ochs – Black Happy
Best known for his collaboration with doom merchant Wino, German singer-songwriter Conny Ochs returns to a simple solo set-up with second album Black Ha... Read more »| 27 Feb 2013 -
MusicBrandt Brauer Frick – Miami
Berlin-based trio Brandt Brauer Frick have succeeded in their mission to bring a bit of classical music's style and grace to techno with their two previous a... Read more »| 27 Feb 2013 -
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Julia Kent – Character
Cellist Julia Kent describes third solo album Character in evocatively conceptual terms, its ten instrumental pieces a musical musing on life&rsquo... Read more »| 27 Feb 2013 -
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My Bloody Valentine – m b v
The turn of the century was a time of great productivity for Kevin Shields. He toured and recorded with Primal Sceam, his arrival inspiring the band to produ... Read more »| 26 Feb 2013
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MusicSuuns – Images du Futur
If at first you don't succeed, try again? That seems to be the motto of Montreal's Suuns. 2011's excellent Zeroes QC was criminally overlooked by t... Read more »| 26 Feb 2013 -
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Function – Incubation
The debut full-length album from New York's David Sumner under his Function alias has been a long time coming – his production and remix credits using ... Read more »| 26 Feb 2013 -
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The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 25 February
In today's Bulletin: Playstation 4 news, Iggy & The Stooges reform, a new Belle & Sebastian doc, Creative Scotland's public consultations begin, plus new music from The Pastels, Small Black, Conquering Animal Sounds, and Cannibal Ox's new Kickstarter Read more »| 25 Feb 2013 -
Books
Gone Again by Doug Johnstone
Edinburgh-based Doug Johnstone has pared down the breadth of his subject matter – his last novel, Hit and Run used the setup indicated by its titl... Read more »| 25 Feb 2013 -
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The Bronx / Single Mothers, The Garage, 16 February
Ontario's Single Mothers have often been compared to The Hold Steady – mainly due to vocalist Andrew Thomson's vivid, half-spoken narratives ... Read more »| 25 Feb 2013 -
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How to Destroy Angels – Welcome oblivion
Having delivered two competent-but-unremarkable EPs thus far, How to Destroy Angels were surely looking to make a strong statement with their debut long-play... Read more »| 25 Feb 2013 -
Film
Premium Rush
Premium Rush is the story of Wilee, a lawyer turned bike messenger, who is on a mission to deliver an envelope on which a life depends, hotly pursued by... Read more »| 24 Feb 2013 -
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GFF 2013: CineSkinny Awards
The most important awards of the weekend, the CineSkinny's GFF awards... Read more »| 23 Feb 2013 -
Film
Glasgow Kizz: Big Star and Glasgow
Glasgow Film Festival 2013's closing gala party will feature a tribute to Big Star, with DJ sets from Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite and the good folks at Monorail. We take a look at some of the ways Big Star and Glasgow have connected over the years Read more »| 23 Feb 2013