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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ClubsRave It Up and Start Again: Simon Reynolds Revises Energy Flash
A new edition of Simon Reynolds' 1998 book Energy Flash, expanded with fresh material, taps into the recent co-option of rave by America's brash, commercial EDM movement – but he refuses to be too down on the kids Read more »| 29 Jul 2013 -
Art
Magic Mirror @ GFT
Sarah Pucill’s film Magic Mirror hovers somewhere between a love letter to its subject, French Surrealist Claude Cahun, and a critical self-examination... Read more »| 29 Jul 2013 -
FilmFrom Up on Poppy Hill
It’s 1963, and high school student Umi wakes each morning to raise signal flags to the drifting tugboats of postcard-pretty Yokohama. When local boy Sh... Read more »| 29 Jul 2013 -
Music
The Whigs – Enjoy the Company
Garage rock revival vets The Whigs turn down the fuzz that was so prominent on 2010's In The Dark with the opening statement to their fourth album:... Read more »| 29 Jul 2013 -
MusicThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 26 July
In this week's Bulletin: All the Superman vs Batman, Avengers and X-Men news from San Diego Comic-Con; the latest Festival news; new music from Franz Ferdinand, Washed Out, PINS and others; plus: design a poster for Irvine Welsh movie adaptation Filth Read more »| 26 Jul 2013 -
Film
Dressed to Kill
Brian De Palma’s skill as a director is matched by his glorious bad taste. Several filmmakers have had the gall to mine laughs out of serial killer mat... Read more »| 26 Jul 2013
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Music
Acid Washed – House of Melancholy
On paper, Acid Washed sound like a fairly generic Parisian revivalist disco/house duo; yet the second LP from Andrew Claristidge and Richard D’Alpert e... Read more »| 26 Jul 2013 -
Music
Fat Freddy's Drop – Blackbird
The third album proper from super-tight New Zealand outfit Fat Freddy's Drop achieves what it sets out to in spades. From the title track onwards, its blend ... Read more »| 26 Jul 2013 -
MusicGrant Hart – The Argument
It opens with a squealing loop, tribal percussion and spoken word dramatics. A fat twenty tracks later it exits with an extended coda fashioned from little m... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
Music
Gig Highlights – Scotland, August 2013
Song, By Toad's inaugural Pale Imitation Festival offers respite from flyer dodging, plus gigs from King Creosote, Swans, Patti Smith, Tame Impala and The Twilight Sad, and an unmissable live outing for David Byrne & St. Vincent Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
Music
Mogwai perform Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait @ Albert Hall, 19 July
It's impossible to question Manchester's heritage when it comes to either football or music, so it always seemed a sensible choice for Manchester Internation... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
Music
Stealing Sheep / All We Are / Prides @ East Village Arts Club, 17 July
It’s hot. Everyone in this sweltering Victorian loft knows it’s hot. Right now, a gig is a tiring proposition, but we soldier on because it&rsquo... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
MusicThe New Mendicants @ International Anthony Burgess Foundation, 13 July
Supergroups are a risky business. For every Gutter Twins-style success, there’s a Broken Bells – a set of mouthwatering ingredients that just tas... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
Music
Medicine – To The Happy Few
Reunited by Captured Tracks to release their back catalogue, 90s LA shoegazers Medicine decided to record a new album, and the result is far from the wall-of... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
Music
Moderat – Moderat II
There were seven years between Moderat’s first EP and album, with the Modeselektor duo and Apparat’s Sascha Ring putting the gap down to “a... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013