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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MusicThao and the Get Down Stay Down – We the Common
On her third album as Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Thao Nguyen’s nimble genre borrowings pay great dividends. There are touches of porch-front ... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
MusicO2 Love Music Column – February 2013
Having pioneered many of the DJ techniques we take for granted to this day, Joseph Saddler, or Grandmaster Flash if you will, has assured his place in the hi... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
MusicGodsticks – The Envisage Conundrum
The windy-yet-catchy songs laid to tape by Godsticks on their second full-length brings to mind like-minded outfits like Oceansize or Porcupine Tree, but s... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
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Tristan Coleman – Still Life with Sound EP
This EP is Tristan Coleman’s debut release, but the Melbourne-based singer/composer/multi-instrumentalist already evinces an unusual breadth of visi... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
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Fuzzy Lights – Rule of Twelfths
Rule of Twelfths refines an aesthetic nine years and three albums in the making, as Cambridgeshire quintet Fuzzy Lights tweak their pastoral-folk-meets-pos... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
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The Metal Column – February 2013
Now you've beaten those stinking January blues, it's time to get back in the circle-pit and lose your mind, droogs. For a kick off, you could either hit up ... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013
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David Bazan @ Broadcast, 28 January
Since 2006, Seattle’s David Bazan has been through a tortured renunciation of Christianity, disbanded Pedro the Lion and Headphones, released two s... Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
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The Pictish Trail / Rozi Plain @ The Glasgow Art Club, 24 January
Despite its air of exclusivity (playfully mocked multiple times by tonight’s headliner), the Glasgow Art Club proves to be a felicitously intimate se... Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
MusicThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 30 January
Lineups for Knockengorroch, Bearded Theory, Beacon and SunSplash festivals; new videos from Grizzly Bear, Soundgarden, Karl Bartos and Animal Collective; Bjork's new Kickstarter project; plus comedian Michael J. Dolan on Woman's Hour Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
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Foals – Holy Fire
With Total Life Forever, Foals rejected genre associations like nu-rave and dance-punk by upping the emotional stakes and working ambiance into their bluep... Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
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Galoshins – EP1/EP2
Recorded separately but released concurrently, EP1 and EP2 work well in combination as a single, album-length introduction to Galoshin’s peculiar bril... Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
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The Eclectic: Caroline Sascha Cogez on her GSFF retrospective
Caroline Sascha Cogez brings her eclectic short films to a retrospective at Glasgow Short Film Festival. The Skinny spoke to this graduate of Super 16, Denmark's punky film school, about her colourful career ahead of her trip to Scotland Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
Throughout his thirty year career with the Bad Seeds, Nick Cave has nary put a cloven hoof wrong and fifteenth album Push the Sky Away shows no sign of bucki... Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
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Lusine – The Waiting Room
Developing the vocal-led take on house, synth-pop and techno he developed on ’09’s A Certain Distance, Texas-born electronic producer Lusine deli... Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
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Live Music Highlights – February 2013
Homegrown independent(ish) rock commandeers the gig calendar as CHVRCHES, The Twilight Sad, Frightened Rabbit, Django Django, Gummy Stumps, PAWS and Divorce show the big boys how it's done Read more »| 30 Jan 2013