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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MusicScotland Gig Highlights – June 2013
A survey of the land's forthcoming live picks for June, including RockNess and Eden Festival; an epic closing party for the West End Festival featuring The Twilight Sad and Meursault; plus reunions a-go-go, with the return of Jurassic 5 and the Breeders Read more »| 31 May 2013 -
MusicMaster Musicians of Bukkake – Far West
Having completed their Totem cycle of albums, everyone's favourite experimental psych-rock weirdos return with a new LP. It's still a decidedly con... Read more »| 31 May 2013 -
Film
Northwest Film Event Highlights – June 2013
Does Prom Com wallow in 90s nostalgia? AS IF! It offers some great teen movies and concludes, like all great teen movies do, with a prom. Other June highlights: a terrifying horror double-bill, a day of spaghetti crime flicks and superheroes come to town Read more »| 31 May 2013 -
MusicEmika – DVA
A follow-up to her self-titled 2011 debut, Emika's DVA sees the artist collaborating with Hank Shocklee of The Bomb Squad on production duties, and reco... Read more »| 31 May 2013 -
Film
The Big Wedding
Based on the 2006 French film Mon Frère Se Marie, Justin Zackham’s The Big Wedding is a huge misfire that squanders its collection of stars on c... Read more »| 31 May 2013 -
FilmScotland Film Event Highlights – June 2013
This month The Grosvnor goes potty for Potter; it's mods v rockers at GFT; the Cameo have a season of MGM classics; and the UK Green Festival brings films with consciences to Glasgow Read more »| 31 May 2013
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Music
Gastric Band – Party Feel
As their moniker might imply, Glasgow's Gastric Band are tight. There is barely an ounce of fat on debut album Party Feel: a wild-eyed odyssey enco... Read more »| 31 May 2013 -
Music
O2 Love Music Column – June 2013
Trying to encapsulate the sprawling career of Todd Rundgren (O2 ABC, 6 Jun) is a particularly difficult task. Perhaps best known for eternal pop hi... Read more »| 31 May 2013 -
Books
Dirty Work by Gabriel Weston
Dirty Work follows the tribunal of young doctor Nancy after performing an abortion leaves her frozen and unable to help the patient bleeding to death before ... Read more »| 31 May 2013 -
Music
Deafheaven – Sunbather
San Francisco's Deafheaven brought a great crossover record to the table with 2011's Roads to Judah, a dramatic debut which used the passionate aggressi... Read more »| 30 May 2013 -
Music
Lumerians – The High Frontier
Like Geoff Barrow's BEAK>, Lumerians are naturally gifted musicians whose playing meshes perfectly, with influences that span psychedelia and experimental... Read more »| 30 May 2013 -
Music
Gold Panda – Half Of Where You Live
Gold Panda's second album picks up where Lucky Shiner left off, offering a leftfield, inventive take on various electronic forms. Junk City takes its time to... Read more »| 30 May 2013 -
Music
CSS – Planta
With former member (and apparent mastermind) Adriano Cintra off in a huff, the CSS señoritas are left to fend for themselves, giving us an LP put... Read more »| 30 May 2013 -
Music
Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
From Josh Homme’s youth as a prodigious stoner rock visionary in Kyuss to the slick, guitar pop-skewing renaissance man we see at the helm of Queens to... Read more »| 30 May 2013 -
Music
Spectrals – Sob Story
Spectrals – the nom de plume of Yorkshire singer-songwriter Louis Jones – introduced his brand of lovelorn guitar pop on 2011’s p... Read more »| 30 May 2013