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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MusicThe Strokes Emerge from the Woods
while the hype merchants in the media have moved on to fresh meat to pollute, the world seems just about ready to clutch Casablancas and co to their bosom once again Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicThe Cribs
This will be a decisive year for The Cribs to prove they are greater than the sum of their influences. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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The Acute
"We're the most beautiful thing in Scotland today because we are so fucking honest and true in what we do!" Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicInterview - Broken Social Scene
"We do something that's very beautiful and serious ... but we don't take it too seriously." Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Live Music Roundup - February
Warped Detroit visionaries ADULT. are the soundtrack to your most beautiful, paranoid fantasies. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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North Country
The pain of the story, and the frankness and warmth of its telling are strengthening somehow. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006
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Music
Pop Up @ 13th Note, 12 Jan
Pop Up combine showmanship with idiosyncratic innovation wrapped around a cool crispy centre Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicHerman Düne @ Mono, 12 Jan
We dance, we nod, we think of our silly lives Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Like that friend of a friend you're a bit ambivalent about, but the more they hang around, the more you like them Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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The Hazey Janes - Hotel Radio
The Hazey Janes sought sunshine and clear skies Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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The Easy Gramophone - February
5 songs you can legally download and listen to - free Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Dawn of the Replicants
We went to John Peel's funeral and I cried my eyes out throughout the whole thing. Partly because I thought, 'this is the end of my career!' Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Film
ShopGirl
A beautifully composed, bittersweet rarity Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin' Down
An excellent example of what Fall Out Boy are all about: it's cheesy, it's poppy, and it's brilliant Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Be Your Own Pet- Let's Gt Sandy (Big Problem) (XL recordings)
...can't see BYOP surviving the Warhol-prescribed 15-minute shelf-life Read more »| 15 Feb 2006