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 Rise of Netaudio
Netlabels and free music versus the traditional industry – the debate rages on. But if you're looking for good net-based releases, where do you start? Read more »| 05 Jul 2012 -
MusicDiana Darby – I V (Intravenous)
A series of personal misfortunes tarried the arrival of Diana Darby’s fourth album, her first since 2005’s The Magdalene Laundries. Yet despite a... Read more »| 05 Jul 2012 -
Clubs
100% Silk Tour feat. LA Vampires & Ital
The sound of witch house comes to Glasgow, wit a showcase from LA Vampires and record label 100% Silk. Read more »| 05 Jul 2012 -
Film
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Six well-dressed figures stride purposefully down a road in the French countryside. Why are they doing this? What's going on? You don't get many answers in L... Read more »| 05 Jul 2012 -
Music
Twin Shadow: Born in the 80s
As he gets prepared to unleash one of the albums of the year, George Lewis Jr., aka Twin Shadow, outlines his musical manifesto Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
Music
White Manna – White Manna
When a band calling themselves White Manna christen a track Acid Head, they risk flirting with parody. The Californian quartet’s mantric psych-rock... Read more »| 04 Jul 2012
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Music
The Flaming Lips – The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
In days gone by, describing a Flaming Lips album as “bewildering” could easily have passed as an endorsement, such was the dazzling nature of the... Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
Music
Purity Ring – Shrines
Where Grimes' work is all about ambiguity, fellow Canucks Purity Ring offer a vision of synth pop which is clear and polished as crystal. Corin Roddick's pro... Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: July 2012 Horoscopes
ARIESThrough your Fisher Price binoculars you spot more UFOs. This time there are thousands of them, looking almost exactly like love heart balloons. You cat... Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
ArtForest Pitch: Moving the goal posts
Artist Craig Coulthard has built a football pitch in the middle of a forest where men and women from around the world will go head to head in what is one of the most ambitious public artworks in Scotland Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
Clubs
Sneaky Pete's Turns Four
One of Edinburgh's best clubs, Sneaky Pete's, is four this month. We ask owner Nick Stewart about the secrets of its success Read more »| 03 Jul 2012 -
Art
Infinite Jest @ DCA
The word 'epic' was at one time used in the context of a film or poem, but these days it’s an adjective for anything, what the Urban Dictionary descr... Read more »| 03 Jul 2012 -
Art
Lis Rhodes @ Tramway
Just seven works represent Lis Rhodes’ forty-year career in the exhibition Dissonance and Disturbance at Tramway, on tour from ICA, London. Rhodes&rsqu... Read more »| 03 Jul 2012 -
Music
Cooly G – Playin' Me
Merrisa 'Cooly G' Campbell's assured, slick productions effortlessly capture the sound of 'funky' – the post-dubstep scene which has embraced elements ... Read more »| 03 Jul 2012 -
MusicThe Dirty Dozen – July 2012
Hailing from hardcore punk superpower OFF!, Keith 'original Black Flag vocalist' Morris and Dimitri 'played guitar on a Bond theme' Coats carry a special license to say whatever the hell they like about July's single releases Read more »| 02 Jul 2012