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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MusicIceage – You're Nothing
If New Brigade was Iceage's statement of intent – raw, immediate, packed with nihilistic attitude – You're Nothing is their manifesto proper. It'... Read more »| 21 Jan 2013 -
ArtThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 21 January
Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite weighs in on HMV crisis; Glasto open 'Emerging Talent' competition; BFI unveil 'Future Film' lineup; Vince Clarke announces new albums, plus new videos from Dinosaur Jr., Brian Eno and Thought Forms Read more »| 21 Jan 2013 -
FilmTwisted Sisters: An Interview with the Soska Siblings
The Soska siblings take their scalpels to misogyny in the horror genre Read more »| 21 Jan 2013 -
FilmZero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow's astounding new film opens with the horrific sounds of 9/11 played over a black screen and it ends with the death of Osama bin Laden; its su... Read more »| 21 Jan 2013 -
Film
American Mary
Perhaps those willing to endure cold steel against warm flesh for aesthetic self expression are the ultimate fashion victims. Yet twisted twin directors Jen ... Read more »| 20 Jan 2013 -
Music
In Pictures: Miaoux Miaoux @ King Tut’s, Sunday 6 January
Miaoux Miaoux @ King Tut’s New Year's Revolution, 6 January Photography by Vito Andreoni Read more »| 18 Jan 2013
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MusicChristopher Owens – Lysandre
Despite quitting last summer, it seems Christopher Owens isn’t quite ready to leave his time in Girls behind, with his solo debut loosely inspired by... Read more »| 18 Jan 2013 -
Music
Pantha Du Prince & The Bell Laboratory – Elements of Light
The first material from Berlin's Hendrik Weber, aka Pantha Du Prince, since 2010's well-received Black Noise travels even further into the ethereal realms of... Read more »| 18 Jan 2013 -
Art
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 18 January
In today's Bulletin: New music from Darkstar, Youth Lagoon and The Black Dog; lineups announced for All Tomorrow's Parties, Sonar and Open'er Festival; trailers for new films by Walid Salhab and Park Chan-Wook, plus weekend gig picks Read more »| 18 Jan 2013 -
Film
Lincoln
Much has been made in the US press of Daniel Day-Lewis’s decision to adopt a high, reedy voice (instead of a stentorian baritone) to portray sixteenth ... Read more »| 18 Jan 2013 -
Film
What Richard Did
In the world of cinema, Richard (Jack Reynor), the 18-year-old title character in Lenny Abrahamson’s hugely impressive third feature, is an anomaly. He... Read more »| 17 Jan 2013 -
Art
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 16 January
In today's Bulletin: Primal Scream to headline Wickerman 2013, Yeah Yeah Yeahs go reggae, alternative Burns with Wounded Knee, HMV to call in the receivers, plus new music from Nick Cave, Pissed Jeans and Four Tet Read more »| 16 Jan 2013 -
Theatre
Birds of Paradise – In An Alien Landscape
Fluttering to the Scottish stage in February Read more »| 16 Jan 2013 -
Clubs
Late Flowering Lust: Andrew Weatherall on The Asphodells
Andrew Weatherall has abandoned the rock and roll of his last album to create The Asphodells with Timothy J. Fairplay, a glorious celebration of post-punk and electronica inspired by John Betjeman, AR Kane, and his club night, A Love From Outer Space Read more »| 15 Jan 2013 -
Film
The Wee Man
This is the hagiography of St Paul – Ferris that is. The Glasgow gangland hall-of-famer whose life is laid out here on celluloid, yet left untarnished ... Read more »| 15 Jan 2013