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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MusicGrime Beyond Borders: Manchester and beyond
We explore the impact of grime abroad through the lens of Manchester-based cultural exchange programme Grime Beyond Borders Read more »| 18 Aug 2017 -
MusicJeffrey Lewis' On The Road Playlist
Ahead of Jeffrey Lewis' upcoming solo tour around Scotland, we ask the New York comic book writer, artists and musician which ten tracks he likes to listen to on the road. Read more »| 18 Aug 2017 -
MusicThe Flaming Lips @ Barrowlands, Glasgow, 15 Aug
The Flaming Lips’ electric set tonight at the Barrowlands is fun, flipped out, and flamboyant as fuck Read more »| 17 Aug 2017 -
MusicBlondes: Under the Influence
New York experimental electronic duo Blondes have just released their third long player, Warmth, so we caught up with them to find out more about the music which influenced their sound Read more »| 17 Aug 2017 -
Books
Read the Chris McQueer short story: IS IT ART?
Chris McQueer's stories are beautifully profane & fucking hilarious, yet often echo with the truth of working class lives too rarely seen in literature. A live scene regular, he's now put them to page for debut collection Hings. Read IS IT ART? here Read more »| 17 Aug 2017 -
Clubs
Guest Selector: Sub Club SoundSystem
With Sub Club celebrating their 30th birthday this year, we’ve brought in three of the club’s most notable residents for this month’s Guest Selector duties Read more »| 17 Aug 2017
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FilmWatch eerie first trailer for The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell star in the latest from Yórgos Lánthimos, the director of Dogtooth and The Lobster Read more »| 16 Aug 2017 -
Music
Dent May – Across the Multiverse
Dent May's latest record since moving to LA is honest and raw Read more »| 16 Aug 2017 -
Music
MALKA – Falling (Video Premiere)
Watch the new video for Falling by Scottish alt-pop singer-songwriter MALKA Read more »| 16 Aug 2017 -
Music
Kommode – Analog Dance Music
Kings of Convenience singer Eirik Glambek Bøe enters a perpetual Norwegian summer as Kommode, delivering a complacent debut which rewards and bites Read more »| 16 Aug 2017 -
Music
Blondes – Warmth
Blondes have their focus firmly on the dancefloor with Warmth, transposing their other-worldly style for the hot-stepping techno fans out there Read more »| 16 Aug 2017 -
Music
Everything Everything – A Fever Dream
A Fever Dream is perhaps Everything Everything’s most pointedly political album to date Read more »| 15 Aug 2017 -
Books
Women in Translation: The best of 2017
August is Women in Translation month, bringing attention to an underrepresented section of literature; here's q tip of the hat to the translators bringing this work to us & one writer's personal pick of titles for 2017, both published & in the pipeline Read more »| 15 Aug 2017 -
Music
Neon Waltz – Strange Hymns
The long-awaited debut from Neon Waltz is a solid collection that should see their star continue to rise Read more »| 15 Aug 2017 -
Music
Lambchop @ Gorilla, Manchester, 11 Aug
Kurt Wagner's Lambchop impress tonight as they work through their ambitious new album, FLOTUS, reinventing older material along the way Read more »| 15 Aug 2017