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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MusicRobert Coyne & Jaki Liebezeit – I Still Have This Dream
The third collaboration between alt-folk doyen Coyne and the revered Can percussionist is deliberately gentle and low key, each acoustic trail leafy, every d... Read more »| 25 May 2016 -
MusicPeter Bjorn and John – Breakin' Point
Returning for seventh studio album Breakin' Point, Peter Bjorn and John unveil a gaudy collage of pop music platitudes. You'll remember that the group found ... Read more »| 25 May 2016 -
Music
Amber Arcades – Fading Lines
Dutch musician Annelotte de Graaf releases her debut album as Amber Arcades. And it is dreamy. Pinch yourself before faded, silky hooks and sun-bleached... Read more »| 25 May 2016 -
MusicPeter J Smyth – Black Smoke
Taking a break from the deafeningly loud space rock of sonic explorers Mugstar, Peter Smyth goes it alone. With that band having gifted us the fearsome Magne... Read more »| 25 May 2016 -
Music
Dinosaur Jr announce new album, UK dates
The veteran trio unveiled new track Tiny in a world exclusive performance on Later... with Jools Holland Indie rock pioneers Dinosaur Jr return with their 1... Read more »| 24 May 2016 -
FilmThe Last Command
Emil Jannings stars in Josef von Sternberg's melodramatic character study Read more »| 24 May 2016
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Music
Papier Tigre – The Screw
Riveting Nantes trio Papier Tigre have been pedaling their post-hardcore chops for ten years now, and from Fugazi to Faraquet, their fourth album feeds on th... Read more »| 24 May 2016 -
FilmThe Firm
Alan Clarke's study of tribal violence starring a rarely better Gary Oldman Read more »| 24 May 2016 -
Clubs
Guest Selector: Luke Vibert
We go poking around the versatile producer's record collection to discover exactly where that versatility stems from Read more »| 24 May 2016 -
Film
Victoria
Sebastian Schipper's stunning single shot Berlin odyssey comes to Blu-ray and DVD Read more »| 24 May 2016 -
Music
The Kills – Ash & Ice
Five years can be an eternity when it comes to what we feed into our ears; that which sounded daring and inventive quickly grows passé when vogue star... Read more »| 24 May 2016 -
Film
Journey to the Shore
Kiyoshi Kurosawa delivers an existential ghost story where the haunting tone and sublime cinematography make up for a certain implausibility Read more »| 24 May 2016 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: 24-31 May
This week the degree show action keeps on, as Dundee continuesand Edinburgh opens on Saturday. There's also a whole host of talks and openings across Scotland. Read more »| 24 May 2016 -
Music
Globelamp – The Orange Glow
A gleeful, headlong adventure, Elizabeth Le Fey's debut finally receives a UK release. If Connan Mockasin taking a spanner to Kate Bush's The ... Read more »| 24 May 2016 -
Music
Anna Meredith @ The Hug and Pint, Glasgow, 17 May
Pop arrives in many shapes and sizes – only sometimes it takes an outsider to point things out. Anna Meredith’s background may be in classical co... Read more »| 23 May 2016