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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FilmEva Husson explores teen sex parties in new film Bang Gang
Eva Husson's debut film concerns a group of high school kids who decide to start their own private orgy club. But don't mistake this for Kids with millennials Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
MusicNorthwest Gig Highlights – June 2016
The balmy summer evenings that we should, in theory, soon get will go perfectly with shimmering Scandi pop from Molly Nilsson, reggae festival Positive Vibration and upbeat genre-crossing sounds from the Max Graef Band. Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
ArtAccessible Dystopias: ECA Degree Show 2016
Staying down to earth, ECA Fine Art graduates intelligently and sharply address the most pressing political and social concerns Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
Music
SUMAC – What One Becomes
Having released one of 2016’s most ethereally beautiful albums in the form of Mamiffer’s The World Unseen, former Isis dude Aaron Turner crops up... Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
Music
The Ever New: Introducing WOMPS
Ahead of an appearance at Brew at the Bog, Glasgow duo WOMPS look forward to dropping their debut in June, and reflect on their fertile collaboration, recording with Steve Albini, and shaking off labels Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
Music
Margaret Glaspy – Emotions and Math
Those of us who’ve followed Glaspy’s development these past few years via a series of self-produced live YouTube performances might find her long... Read more »| 31 May 2016
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Music
Red Sleeping Beauty – Kristina
More expertly assembled, deftly executed, tastefully presented electro-pop. Sheesh. Somebody buy 2016 a Boss DS-1 and make it snappy. This Swedish indie pop... Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
MusicRick Redbeard – Awake Unto
Album number two is halfway between the debut and the Phantoms: a fine place to be Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
Books
Immersed in Danger: Reporters Risking Death
Two journalists who walked into the lion’s den: Wolfgang Bauer went undercover to share the journey of Syrian refugees fleeing the terror of war, while Jürgen Todenhöfer confronted that terror, spending ten days as a guest of the Islamic State Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
Film
Cemetery of Splendour
The latest from great Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a hypnotic masterpiece Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
Music
THROWS – THROWS
Reykjavík-based duo Mike Lindsay and Sam Genders, aka THROWS, arrive with warm-hearted Icelandic indie rock designed to thaw your cold, cold hear... Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
Books
Young Soul Rebels by Stuart Cosgrove
A familiar voice for many, Stuart Cosgrove looks into the enigmatic Northern Soul music scene in his latest book. From the musicians who echoed over the spea... Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
Music
PAWS – No Grace
Funny that a band like PAWS can sound so of their time and yet so far removed from it. On one hand their brand of pop-punk sounds positively archaic compared... Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
Music
WOMPS – Our Fertile Forever
With lean trebly riffs over whines and wails, hummable hooks, and precise rhythms, Our Fertile Forever marks the official birth of a band that’s alread... Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
Film
Northwest Film Event Highlights – June 2016
This month offers a witty Whit Weekender, a night with Danish firebrand Nicolas Winding Refn and possibly the last ever film from Studio Ghibli Read more »| 31 May 2016