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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MusicPieces of a Man: A Gil Scott-Heron primer
Crunching four decades and 13 albums down into a greatest hits? We'd never dare. These are just a few stepping stones along the great poet's path Read more »| 19 Aug 2015 -
Film
Colors
Three years before Boyz n the Hood portrayed social problems in inner-city Los Angeles, Dennis Hopper’s Colors took a look at actual East LA gangs and ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2015 -
FilmState of Grace
Phil Joanou's Sean Penn-starring mob movie State of Grace was originally released around the same time as Goodfellas, so first time round it might as well ha... Read more »| 19 Aug 2015 -
Art
The Week in Scottish Art: Edinburgh Art Fest & more
Dundee has its Masters degree show, Edinburgh's got a Sunday full of Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, and Glasgow's CCA presents performance work inspired by cowboys and mediums in our weekly art round-up. Read more »| 18 Aug 2015 -
Music
The Black Sorrows @ The Spiegeltent, Edinburgh, 12 August
With one hot solo per song, a tight band sound, the occasional bat-out-of-heck howl, and the kind of drumming you don't notice (even, unfortunately, during a... Read more »| 14 Aug 2015 -
Music
Yorkston Thorne Khan – The Blues You Sang: Anatomy of a Song
Filmed as part of Summerhall's Nothing Ever Happens Here gig series, we present 'Anatomy of a Song'. Episode one focuses on the burgeoning colla... Read more »| 14 Aug 2015
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Music
Northwest Music News – 14 Aug: Kepla, Doctrines + more
Our latest fortnightly missive from the Northwest includes music from No Pain In Pop Records, Alcopop! and returning members of We Came Out Like Tigers. Read more »| 14 Aug 2015 -
Music
Dr. Dre – Compton
“My life’s like a soundtrack I wrote to the beat,” Andre Young rapped way back on Still D.R.E., lead single off 1999’s sextuple-plati... Read more »| 13 Aug 2015 -
MusicLaura Cannell – Beneath Swooping Talons
Laura Cannell's (bloody) chamber music is the kind of artistry that pays back the courageous listener in spades. Her album notes speak of "pure music without... Read more »| 13 Aug 2015 -
Music
Sun Kil Moon @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 10 August
Playing in support of his new Universal Themes LP, Mark Kozelek brings his band to Edinburgh for a mammoth show as part of Summerhall’s increasingly impressive body of events. Read more »| 12 Aug 2015 -
MusicThe Tubes @The Art School, Glasgow, 9 August
The first sign that something isn't quite right tonight is evidenced by a giant TV screen overhead which screens a continous slideshow of images from The Tub... Read more »| 12 Aug 2015 -
Music
Beach House – Depression Cherry
You have to admire a band that sees dreaming as a matter of principle. Beach House’s fifth album shows the Baltimore duo turning back the clock with a ... Read more »| 12 Aug 2015 -
Music
Hills – Frid
These Gothenburg psych-rockers trudge, sleepy-eyed, out of the mist with their third album, before locking down and wailing in a manner both grimly ... Read more »| 12 Aug 2015 -
Theatre
Into That Darkness @ Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
“The truth is a terrible thing…” A raw, immersive piece of theatre, Into that Darkness is less moving than utterly groundbreaking. Robert... Read more »| 12 Aug 2015 -
Music
Fear of a Wack Planet: Ratking interviewed
As Ratking circle back for another assault on the UK, founding MC Patrick 'Wiki' Morales lays out the full scale of the burgeoning Harlem rap crew's ambition Read more »| 11 Aug 2015