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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MusicDear Reader – Rivonia
Dear Reader (the nom-de-plume of South African songwriter Cherilyn MacNeil) has named third album Rivonia after the Johannesburg neighbourhood she ... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013 -
MusicDolor – Misteria
Dolor's first official solo release on new label Technicolour doesn't disappoint, after his strong collaboration with Lorn on their Drugs mixtapes – th... Read more »| 26 Mar 2013 -
MusicIsrael Martinez – The Minutes
Comprised of field recordings and samples gathered by Martinez in Mexico and looped, arranged and mutated into a series of ambient reflections on space, moti... Read more »| 26 Mar 2013 -
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Midas Fall – Wilderness
The glitchy laptop beats and sparse, guitar-based atmospherics on Midas Fall's second full-length puts them neatly in line with label-mates 65daysofstatic, b... Read more »| 26 Mar 2013 -
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Stone Sour – House of Gold & Bones Part II
The extent to which Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor's “other band” Stone Sour have evolved and matured over the years is undoubtedly impressive; t... Read more »| 26 Mar 2013 -
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Oliver Deutschmann – Out of the Dark
Where Detroit techno meets its modern descendants, being made and played in techno's current spiritual heartland of Berlin, you'll find producer/DJ Oliver De... Read more »| 26 Mar 2013
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Music
Hey Colossus – Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo
Member changes aside (Tim Cedar from the dearly departed Part Chimp now assumes drumming duties here), the prolific Hey Colossus hold on to their strengths w... Read more »| 26 Mar 2013 -
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Scholars – Always Lead, Never Follow
Scholars' long-delayed debut has a simple mission statement: rock out and get out. Each track carries the high-energy of heyday American skate punk, but fron... Read more »| 26 Mar 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 25 March
In today's Bulletin: Odd Future take over T-in-the-Park, full Record Store Day release schedule announced, watch a new J.Dilla documentary, plus new music from Sigur Rós, Primal Scream, Snoop Lion, Golden Grrrls, Captain Murphy, Outfit and Kurt Vile Read more »| 25 Mar 2013 -
ClubsClubbing Highlights – April 2013
Our monthly look at the clubbing highlights in Edinburgh and Glasgow, with Juan Atkins, Carl Craig, Vitalic, Ivan Smagghe and more Read more »| 25 Mar 2013 -
Music
Various Artists – Keysound Recordings present This Is How
Keysound Recordings is the label run by eminent UK bass music blogger Blackdown and production partner Dusk. Since 2005, it has been a home to some of the mo... Read more »| 25 Mar 2013 -
Books
Book of the Month: The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim
Calling Hassan Blasim's second short story collection a ‘tour de force’ seems tactless – a tour by the Allied Western armies, involving dea... Read more »| 25 Mar 2013 -
Art
Threshold Festival, 7-11 Mar
Hidden between the wood warehouses of Jamaica Street and Greenland Street, Liverpool's Baltic Triangle plays host to Threshold, back for its third year for t... Read more »| 25 Mar 2013 -
Film
Identity Thief
Enjoyment of Identity Thief largely rests on how much goodwill you feel towards its stars’ respective shticks, with both Jason Bateman and Melissa McCa... Read more »| 22 Mar 2013 -
Film
Trance
Danny Boyle's best films possess an exhilarating sense of forward momentum, and Trance is a perfect fit for the director's talents as it moves swiftly t... Read more »| 22 Mar 2013