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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FilmDark Skies
If Dark Skies’ opening credits didn’t tell you it was produced by the people who brought you the Paranormal Activity franchise and Insidious... Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
FilmNorthwest Film Event Highlights – April 2013
This month’s movie highlights include the life and death of JC, a trio of horror double-bills and Pedro Almodóvar’s return to his raunchy 80s roots Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
Art
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 3 April
In today's Bulletin: Rachel Maclean, Ilana Halperin and Collective at Edinburgh Art Festival, David Bowie is front-runner for Mercury Prize, Alec Baldwin interviews Thom Yorke, plus new music from Primal Scream, Flaming Lips, BEAK>, The Knife and more Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
Music
Sølyst – Lead
As the rhythmic powerhouse between krautrock/electronica/post-rock fusionists Kreidler, Thomas Klein has proved his chops as one of the most accomplished and... Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
MusicNeon Neon – Praxis Makes Perfect
Neon Neon’s auspicious debut, Stainless Style, was written in homage to '80s ‘icon’ John DeLorean with the sonic palette to match, but... Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
MusicThe Thermals – Desperate Ground
The righteous fury of The Thermals continues to burn with intensity some ten years after their debut. The subjects that singer Hutch Harris has taken aim at ... Read more »| 03 Apr 2013
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Music
Melvins – Everybody Loves Sausages
What better way to ring in Melvins’ 30th year than this snapshot of what was going on inside the impressionable minds of a young Buzz Osborne and Dale ... Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
MusicGhost Capsules – Ghost Capsules
On the face of it, Ghost Capsules should work a treat, given that they are masterminded by venerated UK music producer and electronic innovator Tim Simenon o... Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
Music
Phoenix – Bankrupt!
Phoenix's first LP in four years promises more experimentation than on their breakthrough, 2009's Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, and sure, there's a few chan... Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
Music
Letherette – Letherette
Fitting nicely into the genre of smooth, immaculately realised, emotionally-driven electronic music from which so many strong albums have emerged in recent m... Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
Theatre
Rory Mullarkey & Michael Longhurst: Physical Theatre
Playwright Rory Mullarkey and director Michael Longhurst discuss the challenges of bringing Cannibals to life Read more »| 02 Apr 2013 -
Music
Interview: Casual Sex on the benefits of winging it
With a new single out on Moshi Moshi and an album on the horizon, we sit down with Casual Sex to discuss the Glasgow band's past, present and why winging it can yield the best results Read more »| 02 Apr 2013 -
Music
Depeche Mode – Delta Machine
There's nothing worse than a band who plough on for too long. Witness Paul Morley's critical mauling of the Rolling Stones over their Glastonbury booking for... Read more »| 02 Apr 2013 -
Music
Umberto / Hausfrau / Leaf Wrist @ Kinning Park Complex, 30 March
Opening proceedings, Leaf Wrist plays a hypnotic performance of experimental electronics, running the gamut from dusted, dub-influenced loops to something ap... Read more »| 02 Apr 2013 -
Music
Lapalux @ Broadcast, 28 March
After a DJ set from Mirrors and a live set from Edward Organ, covering bases from garage and house to electro, Stuart Howard aka Lapalux&... Read more »| 02 Apr 2013