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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TheatreDirty Dancing @ The Playhouse, 5 December
'Remember – this is the summer of 1963,' intones the voiceover guy as the lights dim. That means rock 'n' roll, a holiday resort in the Catskills, an u... Read more »| 06 Dec 2012 -
MusicThe Albums of 2012 (#1): Death Grips – The Money Store (Epic)
Amid a howling storm of hypertext hype, copyright controversy and multimedia performance art excess, Death Grips emerged into the mainstream to produce The Skinny's Album of the Year - The Money Store Read more »| 06 Dec 2012 -
ArtThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 6 December
In today's Bulletin: Das Racist announce split, The Horrors to release deluxe box set, Kraftwerk announce new UK shows at the Tate, plus: watch the trailer for Zero Dark Thirty Read more »| 06 Dec 2012 -
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The Albums of 2012 (#2): Django Django – Django Django (Because Music)
From relative obscurity to lauded Mercury Prize nominees – via the unconventional route of FIFA International Soccer – Dave Maclean of Django Django looks back on his band’s whirlwind year Read more »| 06 Dec 2012 -
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The Skinny Showcase: Christmas Cards 2012
Showcase: Christmas Cards 2012 Every year the Showcase invites artists and illustrators to send us a card they've made for you, dear readers. Merry Chr... Read more »| 06 Dec 2012 -
MusicThe Albums of 2012 (#3): Grimes – Visions (4AD)
The Skinny catches up with our favourite sibylline songstress to hear about her year and get the inside track on the future of music Read more »| 06 Dec 2012
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Film
Malik Bendjelloul interview: The Man Who Didn't Know He Was Famous
The Skinny talks with Malik Bendjelloul, the director of Searching for Sugar Man, about the difficulties of filming that rarest of beasts, a rock musician who doesn't want to talk about himself Read more »| 06 Dec 2012 -
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Roc Marciano – Reloaded
Roc Marciano's been gaining high praise for Reloaded, the follow-up to 2010's acclaimed Marcberg. There's something about it which just doesn't sit right. Pe... Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
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The Albums of 2012 (#4): Errors – Have Some Faith In Magic (Rock Action)
They asked us for a little faith and in return delivered a sermon of divine sonic alchemy. Errors man Steev Livingstone pulls back the curtain on their finest creation yet Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
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The Albums of 2012 (#5): Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory (Wichita)
With their second album in a year Cleveland's Cloud Nothings pulled off a convincing change of identity. Dylan Baldi explains why returning to the drawing board has become his favourite pastime Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
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The Albums of 2012 (#6): El-P – Cancer4Cure (Fat Possum)
Number seven in our top ten albums of the year, El-P talks to us about his stunning return to hip-hop, Cancer 4 Cure Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
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The Albums of 2012 (#7): Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan (Domino)
With influences that ranged from Lil Wayne to Neil Young made plain from the outset, Dirty Projectors' sixth LP could easily have been a mess. Thankfully Dave Longstreth's latest vision was quite the opposite Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
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The Albums of 2012 (#8): Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! (Constellation)
A decade on from their last album, and with precious little fanfare, Godspeed You! Black Emperor proved they were still a force to be reckoned with. Praise be Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
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The Albums of 2012 (#9): The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know (FatCat)
Embraced by a growing legion of fans but shunned by an increasingly chart pop-oriented UK summer festival circuit, The Twilight Sad's frontman James Graham looks back on a bittersweet 12 months Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
Film
Zombie Flesh Eaters
Fulci's legendary gore-filled video nasty finally shambles on to a UK Blu-ray release just in time for Christmas. Make no mistake, this is one for the zombie... Read more »| 05 Dec 2012