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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FilmHouse of Usher
With a clang from a leaden door knocker, the first of Roger Corman’s eight Edgar Allan Poe treatments creaks open unpromisingly, wreathed in sickly mis... Read more »| 23 Aug 2013 -
MusicAllah-Las @ Leaf, Liverpool, 21 Aug
“Out on the water, where you gonna find me,” sings Miles Michaud, evoking the dreamy shores of California, from where this Los Angeles quartet ha... Read more »| 23 Aug 2013 -
MusicParadigm Shift: Until The Music Stops
In the second of our three-part series on the arts, we speak to a range of leading lights from all tiers of the independent music industry about labels, revenue and sustainability in the digital age. Is this a brave new world, or a broken dystopia? Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Art
Dénes Farkas, Estonian Pavilion @ Venice Biennale
With a practice defined in the press release as 'meaningful meaningless,' the premise of Dénes Farkas' contribution to the Estonian pavilion is painfu... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
BooksPlay With Me by Michael Pedersen
By turns elegiac, nostalgic, hilarious and deeply serious, Michael Pedersen's debut poetry collection, Play With Me, marks the arrival of an important new vo... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Film
Elysium
South Africa-set District 9 had a clear apartheid allegory built into its hyper-violent sci-fi stylings, and writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s follow-up... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013
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Art
Ed Atkins @ The Encyclopedic Palace, Venice Biennale
The Trick Brain takes as its starting point a section of archival footage filmed in Andre Breton's Parisian home following his death in 1966. Cluttered with ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
Music
One Step Back, Two Steps Forward: Shigeto in interview
Zach Shigeto Saginaw needed a fresh start after time spent in New York and London; but – as he tells The Skinny – he found it in one of the most unlikely places Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Music
Swans / Buke and Gase @ The Liquid Room, 13 August
Hearing protection at gigs is a common enough sight among the more safety conscious. For Swans though, day-glo foam ear plugs are considered a pre-requisite ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Music
Cold Cave / Natural Assembly / Naked @ Broadcast, 10 August
Naked's jarring, disorientating visuals and haunting VHS imagery creates a thick atmosphere from the outset this evening. The trio marry pounding industrial ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Music
Bosnian Rainbows, @ Broadcast, 4 August
Despite his legendary status as a leading figure of both At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta, Bosnian Rainbows guitarist Omar Rodríguez-Lóp... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Film
2 Guns
Fresh from chilling audiences to the core with austere true-life drama The Deep, director Baltasar Kormákur turns up the heat and lays on the froth in... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
Film
What Maisie Knew
An adaption of Henry James’s 19th-century novel of the same name, What Maisie Knew has undergone modernising alterations but retains the same pitiable ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
Music
Owen Pallett @ Band on the Wall, 12 Aug
“I might have to insist on this track being the walk-on music for all my future gigs, can you imagine?” Owen Pallett smirks, frantically motionin... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
Music
Alpha Male Tea Party – Real Ales & Model Rail: A Lonely Man's Guide to Not Committing Suicide EP
Applying choppy time signatures to millennial Britrock in the Hell Is for Heroes/Hundred Reasons vein, Alpha Male Tea Party satisfyingly expand upon the raw ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013