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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MusicCalexico - Carried to Dust
The Arizonan duo are simply poets who make beautiful music, and Carried to Dust is no exception to the rule Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
MusicInfadels-A Million Pieces
Sometimes you need to ask yourself: if the London-based band Infadels suddenly ceased to exist, what would happen to the face of rock music as we know it? Ye... Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
MusicBomb The Bass - Future Chaos
Bomb The Bass is back. As if he didn't create enough devastation the first time around in the 80s with genre-defining hit Beat Dis, Tim Simenon returns to de... Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
MusicHow To Swim Take a Run at The Mill
Ink Miller of How To Swim tells Finbarr Bermingham of his affinity with a certain Cuban dictator as he rounds up the first month of The Mill Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
Film
The Wave
Professor Wegner (Vogel) has been roped into teaching autocracy as part of project week at his school. His students are a mix of goths, bullies and cool kids... Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
Music
Capitol K - Notes from Life on the Wire with a Wrecking Ball
Notes is an addictive album that grabs the listener with catchy riffs, yet reveals layers and layers of detail over every repeat play Read more »| 05 Sep 2008
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Music
Bon Iver's Cabin Fever
Paul Neeson sits down with Justin Veron of Bon Iver, and asks him how he feels about the near obsessive focus bestowed upon his startling debut album - recorded in a remote Wisconsin log cabin - and his status as folk music’s new messiah Read more »| 04 Sep 2008 -
Music
Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
It’s business as usual for the post-rock overlords Read more »| 04 Sep 2008 -
MusicJump Ship - whatisthisandwhy
So cleanly captured and communicated that it lacks character or any real humanity Read more »| 04 Sep 2008 -
Music
Pirate Robot Midget – It's My Beat Now!
Annoying 'Italian French electro-rock'... from Amsterdam Read more »| 04 Sep 2008 -
Music
Twee As Fuck @ Stereo, 24 Aug
Such a lack of daring may be the noose with which these acts hang themselves Read more »| 03 Sep 2008 -
Music
The Raconteurs @ The Corn Exchange, 26 Aug
Well informed by arena rock standards Read more »| 03 Sep 2008 -
Music
The Gutter Twins - Adorata E.P
Picks up exactly where Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan's debut collaborative LP left off Read more »| 03 Sep 2008 -
Music
I Hear a New World - Fence Records Special (Part One)
Innovative and unusual music from Scotland and beyond. Read more »| 03 Sep 2008 -
Music
In Defence of Edgar Prais
They're not going to take the easy way, but Edgar Prais are determined to make it to ATP. Kristoffer Morgan tells Finbarr Bermingham that he's allergic to the channels that will bring him success. Read more »| 03 Sep 2008