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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MusicGolden Void – Berkana
How big are your riffs? In the case of Bay Area quartet Golden Void, the answer is delivered without apology; all seven tracks comprising Berkana hark back t... Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
Music
Kurt Vile – b’lieve I’m goin down
Perhaps the natural meeting point between the gloomy Smoke Ring For My Halo and 2013’s more robust Wakin On A Pretty Daze, b’lieve I’m goin... Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
MusicSlayer – Repentless
The metal titans return with a composed, if unoriginal, new record that belies their recent turmoil Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
Books
Poetry News: Bard is a Four-Letter Word
StAnza poet in residence Clare Mulley contemplates beginnings in her first poetry column. Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
ComedyCrystal Baws: September 2015
Worm-men, single-celled amoeba and zombie apocalypses: your horoscope for September 2015. Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
Music
Battles – La Di Da Di
Thank God for Battles. First emerging in the mid-noughties, theirs was a brand of fiery, frenetic art rock unlike any other: experimentalism charged with a s... Read more »| 02 Sep 2015
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Music
Skylar Spence – Prom King
If it takes hefty willpower and 15 minutes of eyeballing your spots in the bathroom mirror before you can dance on a Friday night, here’s yer cure. Pre... Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
MusicBeirut – No No No
Few make the little appear big (and the big sound intimate) as elegantly as Zach Condon. Now back within the 4AD fold and recorded over a two week period in ... Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
Music
Le Butcherettes – A Raw Youth
Shards of ‘80s synth (My Malley; Witchless C Spot). Grungy, pre-millennial attitude (They Fuck You Over; The Hitchhiker). Scuzzy, sidewalk bass (pretty... Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
Music
Ought – Sun Coming Down
The ease with which Ought play at disorder is baffling. Slipping breezily from improv-infused chaos into tightly woven riffs, the Montreal-based four piece t... Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
FilmScottish Film Event Highlights – September 2015
Scalarama, Tremors and Masterpieces of Polish Cinema feature in our picks for Glasgow and Edinburgh. Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
Film
Our Favourite British Films 2010-2015
To mark the publication of new film book New British Cinema from Submarine to 12 Years a Slave, we polled The Skinny's film writers to ascertain their favourite British films of the decade so far Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
Books
The Seed Beneath the Snow by Joanna Ramsey
With The Seed Beneath the Snow, Joanna Ramsey chronicles the later years of George Mackay Brown. Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Art
CCA Highlights – September/October
Sonica Festival, Take One Action and Lonelady are among the upcoming treats at Glasgow's CCA. Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Music
Ought's Tim Darcy on Sun Coming Down
Ought's Tim Darcy describes the strange hive mind and shared psyche of Montreal’s hotly tipped post-punk band Read more »| 01 Sep 2015