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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MusicFoals – 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 -
MusicGaloshins – 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 -
FilmThe 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 -
Music
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 -
MusicLusine – 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 -
Music
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
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Film
GFF 2013: Public Enemy No. 1
GFF sure know how to cater for every taste. If last year's Gene Kelly song and dance extravaganza wasn't quite your cup of tea, this year's bullet-filled celebration of everyone's favourite baby-faced gangster, James Cagney, is for you Read more »| 29 Jan 2013 -
Music
Team Ghost – Rituals
Following up their two towering EPs in 2010, Team Ghost's much-anticipated full-length debut benefits from the band's expansion – backed by a new ... Read more »| 29 Jan 2013 -
MusicTrack-by-track: Frightened Rabbit's Pedestrian Verse
Returning to the fray this month with their "darkest record yet", frontman Scott Hutchison guides us through Frightened Rabbit's eagerly anticipated fourth LP Read more »| 29 Jan 2013 -
Clubs
Clubbing Highlights – February 2013
In this month's Clubbing Highlights, Andrew Weatherall, Speedy J, Mala and Farley Jackmaster Funk come to Glasgow, while Edinburgh gets a visit from Netsky, Scracth Perverts and Auntie Flo Read more »| 29 Jan 2013 -
Art
Members' Show @ Embassy, until 3 Feb
Anyone expecting the Embassy Members' Show to observe the usual etiquette reserved for such functions might just be in for a surprise. Most artists can be re... Read more »| 29 Jan 2013 -
Art
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 28 January
In today's Bulletin: The Mars Volta split, tour news from Thurston Moore, Trail of Dead and The Who, Black Flag to play Hevy Fest, new music from The Strokes, Inspectah Deck, The Haxan Cloak, The Knife, Heems and Deap Vally, plus: Depeche Mode's new album Read more »| 28 Jan 2013 -
Film
Bullhead
In synopsis Michaël R. Roskam’s feature debut is just another gangster tangle of black market drug-peddling, Coen-esque deadpan and unrequited lov... Read more »| 28 Jan 2013 -
Film
Bullet to the Head
There’s something faintly tragic about Sylvester Stallone’s determination to cling to those much beloved macho action sensibilities of the 1980s,... Read more »| 28 Jan 2013 -
Music
Megachurch – Megachurch 2: Judgment Day
There's plenty of bands out there adept at tight, fast-paced rock, but this Cleveland trio have a couple of notable quirks to separate them out from the cr... Read more »| 28 Jan 2013