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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MusicHalo Halo – Halo Halo
Halo Halo's follow-up to last year's 7” is a playful, adventurous listen. The clean, double-pronged chants on Djeddjehutyiuefankh (have a go at pronoun... Read more »| 08 Jul 2013 -
MusicThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 5 July
In this week's Bulletin: we preview the season of literary events in tribute to the late Iain Banks; check out new videos from Nine Inch Nails, The Knife, Phoenix and Cold War Kids; preview the KILTR Street Feastival; and round up the new film trailers Read more »| 05 Jul 2013 -
Film
Blancanieves
Last year, Hollywood coughed up two takes on Snow White: one camp, one dark, neither much cop. Director Pablo Berger’s free interpretation of the Grimm... Read more »| 05 Jul 2013 -
MusicThe Body Rampant – Midnight Mayfair
Californian alternative rock group The Body Rampant mess with different styles and sounds on their ambitious debut. The shimmering post-rock of opener Dirtna... Read more »| 05 Jul 2013 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: July 2013 Horoscopes
ARIESAfter weeks of paranormal torment you discover the reason your fridge barks like a rottweiler, your walls have been bleeding, and gallons of maggots hav... Read more »| 04 Jul 2013 -
ArtCreate at Salford Festival – Degree Show
We discover a class of 2013 more than prepared to take on the real world at the The University of Salford’s degree show Read more »| 04 Jul 2013
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Art
The Skinny Showcase: Dennis Reinmüller
Showcase: Dennis Reinmüller On a face-achingly bleak early spring evening in the capital a quietly baffled audience trudged to a re-imagining of one of... Read more »| 04 Jul 2013 -
Film
Pixar animator Scott Clark on Monsters University
We spoke to Scott Clark, a supervising animator at celebrated animation house Pixar, about their latest feature film, Monsters University Read more »| 04 Jul 2013 -
BooksTaipei by Tao Lin
TaiPei is an unflinching and hate-filled account of a group of people with a commitment to nothing greater than themselves, written in a purposefully mundane... Read more »| 04 Jul 2013 -
Music
Kick Up the Fire: Introducing Embers
They've played fewer than 20 gigs, but with cinescope scores and grand ambitions, Manchester-based band Embers look set to ignite. They explain why ‘aspirational’ doesn't have to be a dirty word Read more »| 04 Jul 2013 -
Music
Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus
After the giant leap in ambition, scope and production that was 2009’s Tarot Sport, it’s entirely judicious of Fuck Buttons to make follow-u... Read more »| 04 Jul 2013 -
Clubs
Scotland Clubbing Highlights – July 2013
This month we point you in the direction of Marquis Hawkes, Rinse FM's Oneman, and Future Times boss Maxmillion Dunbar. We also have a few tips for TITP's Slam Tent... Read more »| 03 Jul 2013 -
Music
In Pictures: Cas Rock Presents @ Electric Circus, Friday 28 June
Cas Rock Presents @ Electric Circus, 28 June Cas Rock Edinburgh present a night with Annie Christian, Sawyer and X-Tigers Photography by John Douglas Read more »| 03 Jul 2013 -
Music
David Lynch – The Big Dream
Unlike the somewhat schizophrenic, rather hit-and-miss Crazy Clown Time, David Lynch's new album sounds like a David Lynch movie. Perhaps it's the choice to ... Read more »| 03 Jul 2013 -
Music
Tales from the Cryptic: Phoenix frontman Thomas Mars in interview
As synth-powered new wave revivalists Phoenix prepare to take Balado, frontman Thomas Mars reflects on a career arc less ordinary Read more »| 03 Jul 2013