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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MusicShabazz Palaces – Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines
Shabazz Palaces have fully fallen for space travel on these sister albums starring Quazarz, Ishmael Butler’s new persona, who invites us into his realm... Read more »| 10 Jul 2017 -
MusicShabazz Palaces – Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star
Shabazz Palaces are of the distant future, the forgotten past, or a wormhole connecting both. Songs are dense with effects, whisper-quiet raps masked by star... Read more »| 10 Jul 2017 -
Music
Art Feynman – Blast Off Through the Wicker
Californian musician Art Feynman is on a mission. He wants to try to find life in the lifeless, and discover what it actually means to be alive. That goes so... Read more »| 10 Jul 2017 -
MusicSiobhan Wilson – There Are No Saints
Elgin-born singer-songwriter Siobhan Wilson has been around a while under the guise Ella the Bird, but it’s under her own name she’s going to be ... Read more »| 10 Jul 2017 -
MusicJapanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds From Another Planet
The vivid melancholy of Michelle Zauner’s debut album Psychopomp was built on tragic circumstances: imbued by the memory of Zauner’s late mother,... Read more »| 10 Jul 2017 -
Music
Lucy Rose – Something’s Changing
Ah, the travails of being a female singer-songwriter in an age of superabundance. It may be John Lewis we have to thank but you can’t turn on the TV th... Read more »| 07 Jul 2017
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Music
Ani DiFranco @ Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, 29 Jun
Folk singer and feminist icon, Ani DiFranco has been described by many as a badass. With a musical career spanning over 30 years she has released more than 2... Read more »| 07 Jul 2017 -
Music
Rachel Alice Johnson – I Won't Remember You (Video Premiere)
Watch the new video from Edinburgh-based musician Rachel Alice Johnson Read more »| 07 Jul 2017 -
Books
How Saints Die by Carmen Marcus
Ellie is ten years old. She learns five new words a week and knows that stories can keep you from drowning. She doesn’t know where they have taken her ... Read more »| 07 Jul 2017 -
Music
Sheer Mag – Need to Feel Your Love
Sheer Mag’s relatively rapid rise to prominence has been one of punk music’s most refreshing and organic in some time. Despite possessing a relat... Read more »| 07 Jul 2017 -
Music
The Sugarhill Gang @ Stramash, Edinburgh, 28 Jun
Just a few decades prior to the rise of stars such as Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar, young DJs and MCs in the South Bronx of New York City were laying the gr... Read more »| 07 Jul 2017 -
Music
The Veils: Guest Selector
As they prepare for their European tour, which takes in Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow this September, The Veils' frontman Finn Andrews shares some of his favourite tracks Read more »| 07 Jul 2017 -
Film
Ian Rankin to curate Filmhouse film season
The crime novel author is the first in Filmhouse’s new House Guests series, which sees guest programmers come in to curate a personal film series for the indie cinema Read more »| 07 Jul 2017 -
Books
To Live & Die in LA: Ryan Gattis on new novel Safe
Ryan Gattis's Safe pulls readers once more into the violent slipstream of his LA riots novel All Involved; the author talks safecracking, turf and the interpersonal skills of the LA underworld Read more »| 07 Jul 2017 -
Theatre
Is Crowdfunding The Only Way to Fund a Fringe Show?
With just over a month to go until the Edinburgh Festival Fringe kicks off, The Skinny asks why more and more acts are turning to crowdfunding to finance their shows, and what could be done to make the festival more cost-friendly to artists Read more »| 06 Jul 2017