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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FilmIntolerance
Watching a DW Griffith film is like watching Shakespeare indite his first couplets. Griffith didn’t invent cinema any more than the Bard invented langu... Read more »| 04 Dec 2014 -
Music
Albums of 2014 (#1): Warpaint – Warpaint (Rough Trade)
Warpaint drummer Stella Mozgawa on re-thinking and re-imagining Warpaint, the band's most effusively eclectic record to date Read more »| 04 Dec 2014 -
MusicAlbums of 2014 (#2): The Twilight Sad – Nobody Wants to be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave (Fat Cat)
Down but far from out, The Twilight Sad have recovered from “tough times” and delivered their finest album to date. James Graham explains where things go from here Read more »| 04 Dec 2014 -
BooksN0S 4R2 by Joe Hill
All books are page-turners by default, how else might they be read? But it’s the velocity of turning which provides some sort of measure. N0S 4R2 lives... Read more »| 03 Dec 2014 -
Books
Starter for 6: Indie Authors Scotland
Owned by Kim and Sinclair MacLeod, Indie Authors Scotland provides training, publishing services and community support for writers who want to self-publish their work Read more »| 03 Dec 2014 -
MusicYo La Tengo's Hanukkah Playlist
Since 2001, indie veterans Yo La Tengo have hosted an annual series of Hanukkah shows in their home town of Hoboken. Here, frontman Ira Kaplan selects the songs that remind him of his favourite guest performers to light up the Maxwell's stage Read more »| 03 Dec 2014
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Clubs
DJ Chart: Dusky
The production and DJ duo Dusky share ten tracks ahead of their set appearances at The Arches and The Warehouse Project this month Read more »| 03 Dec 2014 -
Books
Have Yourself a Literary Christmas
Wintertime, writing and wordsmiths: here’s our guide to the literary events on this Christmas, from Paul Muldoon to a modern take on traditional penny readings Read more »| 03 Dec 2014 -
Music
Albums of 2014 (#3) : The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream (Secretly Canadian)
They might've sounded like Dylan and Springsteen to many, but Adam Granduciel ensured the War On Drugs adopted classic tropes in order to ultimately do their own thing Read more »| 03 Dec 2014 -
Music
Albums of 2014 (#4): St. Vincent – St. Vincent
A confident fourth album, a fierce new visual style, a band that is – by one account – the best in the world... Annie Clark has had a pretty good year, all told Read more »| 03 Dec 2014 -
Music
Albums of 2014 (#5): Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
With her second album winning over UK audiences, Angel Olsen explains how collaboration is the key that unlocks her singular vision Read more »| 03 Dec 2014 -
Music
The Grand Gestures – Third
From monochrome artwork to functional title, The Grand Gestures' third album in three years deviates little from the mould cast by parts one and two, yet t... Read more »| 03 Dec 2014 -
Books
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
Hitting Japan in 2008, The Strange Library spins a dark modern-day fairytale about a boy who finds himself drawn into the shady labyrinth beneath his local l... Read more »| 02 Dec 2014 -
ArtAncients, PDFs, and Paint! This week in Scottish Art
Our weekly round-up of Scotland's art news and events takes in photos from South Africa, digital art in Dundee, and a whole host of exhibitions soon to close in Glasgow. Read more »| 02 Dec 2014 -
Music
Albums of 2014 (#6): Mogwai – Rave Tapes (Rock Action)
Mogwai's latest opus Rave Tapes saw them applying electronic menace to their beguiling post-rock template, before unexpectedly yet heroically gatecrashing the charts. Stuart Braithwaite discusses the album and beyond Read more »| 02 Dec 2014