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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Keiren Hebden And Steve Reid - The Exchange Session: Vol 1
Both men feel the joining of electronics and acoustic jazz has not really been handled very skilfully in the past.
WEB VERSION ONLY PLEASE ALEX - SHORT PRINT ONE IS ELSEWERE Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
ClubsGlissandro 70 - '70'
A tripped-out, sublime journey into rhythm and melody Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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B-Burg - Dessert Island Disco
This is a polished, laid-back album, deceptively simple at first but revealing more complexity with each listen Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicSkindred - Pressure
Punk-metal reggae fronted by a Welshman anyone? Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicOrson - No Tomorrow
Easy-listening-by-numbers Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicNizlopi - Girls
Jack Johnson with an English twist Read more »| 17 Mar 2006
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David Ford - I Don't Care What You Call Me
Quiet guitar, mellow organs and fully hum-able melodies in place. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Two Gallants - 'What The Toll Tells'
They do not slump into their sophomore album àno, they crash through it, banging and booming, yelling and yearning. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicTony Allen - Lagos No Shaking
lamely recontextualising all the pre-cursory afro-beat elements that went on to inform hip-hop and funk Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Andy C, Manga: 10th Birthday, GSA, Feb 3
10th birthday parties are traditionally defined by noise, mayhem and a hoard of screaming kids, and the Manga crew were in no mood to buck the trend
STRRR8 ON THA WEB PLS ALEX!!! Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Raiden, Friction, Phi-Life Cypher, Xplicit 1st Birthday, The Venue, Edinburgh, Jan 27
Phi-Life Cypher deserved a larger chunk of the crowd
STRRR8 ON THA WEB PLEASE ALEX!!! Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Scractch, The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, Feb 3
Undoubtedly one of the finest days in Ediburgh's hip-hop history. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Rob da Bank, Fresh Air Launch, The Venue, Jan 29
Rob kept the crowd on their toes by delivering an ever eclectic sequence of songs Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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The Chalets - Theme From Chalets
...striking similarities with Paula Abdul's Opposites Attract... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Sway @ The Liquid Room @ Edinburgh
Sway proves he possesses the showmanship to match his entrepreneurial prowess, emerging to the British national anthem and punctuating his set with an impromptu rendition of Can't Touch This. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006