Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
-
MusicGold Panda @ East Village Arts Club, Liverpool, 23 November
Following the release of his second album Half of Where You Live in June, Berlin-based, Essex-born producer Gold Panda takes to the stage in Liverpool for th... Read more »| 28 Nov 2013 -
BooksIn Rude Health by Robbie Guillory
Humans are a kinky, sexually dysfunctional and - above all - stupid species; just ask any of our frontline healthcare professionals, especially after a drunk... Read more »| 28 Nov 2013 -
MusicEjecta – Dominae
Joel Ford (Tigercity / Ford + Lopatin) joins vocalist Leanne Macomber of Neon Indian for an album of unabashedly retro synth-pop which manages to combine the... Read more »| 28 Nov 2013 -
MusicThere Will Be Fireworks – The Dark, Dark Bright Album Review
For a band intimately familiar with the power of grand crescendos and bristling upsurges, the near silence that followed There Will Be Fireworks’ self-... Read more »| 27 Nov 2013 -
Music
Hero Worship: Cliff Martinez on Captain Beefheart
Soundtrack composer (Drive, Only God Forgives, Sex, Lies and Videotape) and former drummer for Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Dickies, Cliff Martinez tells us of his lifelong love for Captain Beefheart, and what it was like to work with him Read more »| 27 Nov 2013 -
MusicNew War – New War
“Come to me, oh come to me,” repeats the opening battle chant in Game of Love, over a relentless, accelerating drum salvo, establishing the eerie... Read more »| 27 Nov 2013
-
Books
Day by Day by Sister Stan
Promising to be ‘a treasury of mediations on mindfulness to comfort and inspire,’ Day by Day is formatted in 365 short sections intended to be re... Read more »| 27 Nov 2013 -
Music
The Fauns – Lights
Alison Garner’s mannered, half-whispered vocals are the first clue that The Fauns are very much in thrall to the apparently immortal influence of the e... Read more »| 27 Nov 2013 -
Music
Goat – Live Ballroom Ritual
The release of this Swedish psych-rock collective’s debut World Music last year attracted a flurry of attention, not least because of the band’s ... Read more »| 27 Nov 2013 -
Music
Robert Pollard – Blazing Gentlemen
Even by his own effusive standards, 2013 has been a busy year for Robert Pollard. Incredibly, Blazing Gentlemen is the Ohioan’s sixth full-length ... Read more »| 27 Nov 2013 -
Comedy
Rik Carranza: A Wee Bit of Relief
In the wake of the Typhoon Haiyan disaster, one Scots-Filipino comedian is determined to raise awareness and money for the Philippines disaster relief effort. The Skinny chats to Rik Carranza to find out more about his plans for Wee Bit of Relief Read more »| 26 Nov 2013 -
Music
Kosheen – Solitude
Since their formation in 1999, this Bristol-based electronica trio have explored a variety of genres, including trip-hop, drum n’ bass and breakbeat, w... Read more »| 26 Nov 2013 -
Music
Super Adventure Club – Straight From The Dick
On their previous album, Super Adventure Club recommended avoiding zombies; now, alas, they’ve become one, with Straight From The Dick arriving posthum... Read more »| 26 Nov 2013 -
Music
Brendan Canning – You Gots 2 Chill
When exactly does Brendan Canning sleep? It seems faintly ludicrous that despite his myriad bands, soundtrack projects and DJ commitments – not to ment... Read more »| 26 Nov 2013 -
Music
No Joy – Wait to Pleasure
11 tracks of absolutely top-quality shoegaze from Montreal's No Joy, unabashedly plundering everything from My Bloody Valentine (the faded female vocals and ... Read more »| 26 Nov 2013