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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ClubsIntroducing: Magic Nostalgic
We take a look at the O2 ABC's newest club night, Magic Nostalgic, which has a music policy selected at random by a game-show style giant wheel Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
MusicDeath, Theft, and Four-Eyed Freaks: 25 Years of Mudhoney
As influential Seattle legends Mudhoney see in their silver anniversary, Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne grills Mark Arm on stealing from other bands, how best to use the internet, and his own ultimate demise Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
Music
Scotland Gig Highlights – May 2013
May offers a diverse range of musical treats, from the intense post-punk of Savages to the lo-fi rock aesthetics of Dirty Beaches; not to mention outdoor and indoor festival fun at Kelburn Castle and Stag & Dagger Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
ClubsNorthwest Clubbing Highlights – May 2013
Bookended by two bank holiday weekends ripe for groove and debauchery, May is a fine month for staying out late, from the death of Sankeys to the birth of Cannibal Run Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
Books
Better on Paper: Victoria Baths Fanzine Fair
The upcoming Victoria Baths Fanzine Fair is just one of an ever-increasing number of events in the Northwest celebrating and encouraging self-publishing. We speak to some of its participants about the apparent resurgence of independent media Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
MusicChurch of Noise – May 2013
From eerie folk to avant-punk, Scotland's underbelly is rife with esoteric treats in the coming weeks Read more »| 30 Apr 2013
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Music
O2 Love Music Column – May 2013
The month of May kicks off at the O2 with a night of old-school hip hop. Former Juice Crew affiliates Big Daddy Kane and Masta Ace will b... Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – May 2013
We might be grinning at spring finally having sprung, but May in the Northwest promises a live calendar for all outlooks – from the homely tones of Phosphorescent to the squall of Metz, and from a woozy Vondelpark to a confrontational Mykki Blanco Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
Music
Deerhunter – Monomania
Having operated amongst a mire of genres within their self-proclaimed ‘ambient punk’ label, fans of Atlanta quintet Deerhunter should hold no tru... Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
Music
Thirty Pounds of Bone – I Cannot Sing You Here, But For Songs of Where
I Cannot Sing You Here, But for Songs of Where is Johnny Lamb’s third album as Thirty Pounds of Bone, and its title is evocatively apt. As Lamb si... Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
MusicSam Amidon – Bright Sunny South
A folk singer cast from an old-fashioned mould, Sam Amidon rearranges and repurposes songs from the ages, his albums to date principally reinterpreting hymns... Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
Music
Saltland – I Thought it Was Us But it Was All of Us
Rebecca Foon is in some ways the archetypal Constellation artist, a Montreal-based cellist who has previously played in Thee Silver Mt. Zion and Set Fire To ... Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
Music
Various Artists – Grime 2.0
Big Dada's sprawling, two-disc grime compilation aims to bring the focus back onto the producers and beat-makers of the scene, and give them due credit for p... Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
Music
PTTRNS – Body Pressure
Cologne's PTTRNS' live shows are summed up best by their one-sentence bio - “Everyone plays everything.” This includes the crowd, who are invited... Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
Clubs
Scotland Clubbing Highlights – May 2013
This month's highlights include house heads Theo Parrish and Prosumer, techno pioneer Derrick May, local disco duo 6th Borough Project and many more Read more »| 30 Apr 2013