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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TheatreThe Great Disappointment Of Santa Muerta @ Oran Mor
The doubts, neuroses and motivations of the jobbing actor are explored in this lyrical, pithy play, written and performed by the brilliant Amanda Monfrooe.&n... Read more »| 05 Nov 2012 -
TheatreArches Live: Gelatin (Solo) / Update
Gelatin (Solo) performed by Thomas McCulloch, is an intimate study in ritual and the limitations of the human form. McCulloch, clad only in boxer shorts walk... Read more »| 05 Nov 2012 -
MusicBuck 65: “They all thought that I had completely lost my mind...”
After enduring a year of hell, rapper Buck 65 is back on tour, and preparing a new album of cold electronic beats and surreal, Dadaist lyrics. Read more »| 05 Nov 2012 -
Theatre
Whatever Happened to Harry @ Arches Live
Seated in a blue Benz with the door hanging open, it is hard to anticipate what is going to happen. To the sound of a reggae beat, a woman with a shawl about... Read more »| 05 Nov 2012 -
Theatre
The Artist Man and the Mother Woman
New Play and New Artistic Director team up for Traverse Special Read more »| 02 Nov 2012 -
Music
Deftones – Koi No Yokan
Storming out of the gate with Swerve City – a brutally sexy sledgehammer of a song, and hands-down their best opener since White Pony's Feiticeira &nda... Read more »| 02 Nov 2012
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MusicBrian Eno – LUX
After two patchy outings on Warp, LUX finds Eno returning to purely ambient pastures with a suite based on a recent gallery installation. A cursory listen ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2012 -
Music
Mogwai – A Wrenched Virile Lore
A Wrenched Virile Lore is not strictly a remix album to Mogwai’s seventh studio record Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will. In fact, Justin Broadric... Read more »| 02 Nov 2012 -
Music
Alive in the Superunknown: Soundgarden chart their unlikely return and the making of 'King Animal'
As Soundgarden prepare to deliver their first studio album in 16 years, the Seattle titans explain how they found a road back Read more »| 02 Nov 2012 -
Music
Guided By Voices – The Bears for Lunch
Usually when a treasured act reforms, they hit the road, give fans an opportunity to hear the hits, and then go back to whatever it was they were doing befor... Read more »| 02 Nov 2012 -
Music
Benjamin Gibbard – Former Lives
If the key to unlocking former lives is regression, Ben Gibbard’s solo debut is perfectly titled: there’s scant sign of progress or advancement i... Read more »| 02 Nov 2012 -
Music
P.O.S. – We Don't Even Live Here
Doomtree co-founder P.O.S. brings another sonically dense alt-rap assault with his fourth LP, and although the synth-heavy palette he's working with this tim... Read more »| 02 Nov 2012 -
Music
Clinic – Free Reign
Now on their seventh LP, Clinic’s career has spanned a period in which rock that combines innovation and poppiness has become increasingly thin on th... Read more »| 02 Nov 2012 -
Music
No Division: Chuck Ragan on The Revival Tour
Now in its fifth year, Hot Water Music's Chuck Ragan explains The Revival Tour's communal power Read more »| 02 Nov 2012 -
Music
Neil Halstead – Palindrome Hunches
On Palindrome Hunches’ penultimate song, Hey Daydreamer, Neil Halstead asserts the persistence of his idealistic outlook: "I don’t wanna be jus... Read more »| 02 Nov 2012