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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BooksNew Books by the Cargo Crate
New publishing ‘label’ Cargo Crate describes itself as Scotland’s first eBook/print-on-demand publisher, and it has big ambitions for the future of ‘the book’ Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
ArtChristian Newby @ +44 141
Imagine you were to inhabit the pictorial space of a black and white glaze of the 1950s pottery range Homemaker. If so, you’ll have some notion of what... Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
Music
Moon Duo – Mazes
Thanks to two well-received EPs and the success of guitarist Ripley Johnson’s other band Wooden Shjips , there are some pretty cut-and-dry preconceptio... Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
MusicTake A Worm For A Walk Week – T.A.W.F.A.W.W
Given their two previous recordings, at 25 minutes T.A.W.F.A.W.W qualifies as something of an epic for this feral Glaswegian quartet. In fact the days of 30 ... Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
Music
Sarabeth Tucek – Get Well Soon
Sarabeth Tucek's second album is, as the title suggests, about illness – bodily and mental – and its overcoming. From the record's opening line, ... Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
MusicHot Ticket of the Month: Mount Kimbie
Sometimes The Skinny likes to think back to simpler days; days when ‘dance’, ‘classical’, ‘pop' and 'rock’ were the only ... Read more »| 25 Mar 2011
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Music
The Vivian Girls – Share the Joy
There’s not enough mathematical analysis in music reviews, is there? Shame – a wee bit of number crunching can be insightful. For instance, take ... Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
Art
Jeremy Millar: A Portrait of the Artist as a Drowned Man
Artist-cum-shaman Jeremy Millar makes work inspired by the greats. Ahead of his new show at CCA, Jac Mantle hears about the ghostly apparition of one of his heroes Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
Music
Daedelus – Bespoke
Daedelus can tear up a dancefloor with his live sets, but his recorded output is about as related to mainstream notions of ‘dance music’ as John ... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
Music
Jesca Hoop – Snowglobe EP
Manchester-based, California-born songstress Jesca Hoop may tread with genteel folk footsteps, however her musical associates – legend Tom Waits once e... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
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Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
Having worked with TV on the Radio and Tom Waits, Colin Stetson is one of those musicians who is legendary, it’s just that you don’t know it. Tha... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
Music
Explosions in the Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Because of the often protracted periods between albums, a new Explosions record always brings with it a mixture of expectation and trepidation, but this&hell... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
Music
Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
Expectations in the rock fraternity surrounding Wasting Light, the seventh long player from Dave Grohl’s Foo Fighters, have been reaching fever pitch. ... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
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Cold Cave – Cherish the Light Years
The follow-up to 2009’s acclaimed debut Love Comes Close sees the New York-based Cold Cave continue to hone their addictive, irrepressible take on 80s ... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
Music
Alexi Murdoch – Towards the Sun
Recorded predominately in a single night, Towards the Sun is the kind of neo-folk album that causes Pitchfork writers to suffer terminal priapisms. Murdoch p... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011