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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MusicWhite Manna – White Manna
When a band calling themselves White Manna christen a track Acid Head, they risk flirting with parody. The Californian quartet’s mantric psych-rock... Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
Music
The Flaming Lips – The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
In days gone by, describing a Flaming Lips album as “bewildering” could easily have passed as an endorsement, such was the dazzling nature of the... Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
MusicPurity Ring – Shrines
Where Grimes' work is all about ambiguity, fellow Canucks Purity Ring offer a vision of synth pop which is clear and polished as crystal. Corin Roddick's pro... Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
ComedyCrystal Baws: July 2012 Horoscopes
ARIESThrough your Fisher Price binoculars you spot more UFOs. This time there are thousands of them, looking almost exactly like love heart balloons. You cat... Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
ArtForest Pitch: Moving the goal posts
Artist Craig Coulthard has built a football pitch in the middle of a forest where men and women from around the world will go head to head in what is one of the most ambitious public artworks in Scotland Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
Clubs
Sneaky Pete's Turns Four
One of Edinburgh's best clubs, Sneaky Pete's, is four this month. We ask owner Nick Stewart about the secrets of its success Read more »| 03 Jul 2012
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Art
Infinite Jest @ DCA
The word 'epic' was at one time used in the context of a film or poem, but these days it’s an adjective for anything, what the Urban Dictionary descr... Read more »| 03 Jul 2012 -
Art
Lis Rhodes @ Tramway
Just seven works represent Lis Rhodes’ forty-year career in the exhibition Dissonance and Disturbance at Tramway, on tour from ICA, London. Rhodes&rsqu... Read more »| 03 Jul 2012 -
Music
Cooly G – Playin' Me
Merrisa 'Cooly G' Campbell's assured, slick productions effortlessly capture the sound of 'funky' – the post-dubstep scene which has embraced elements ... Read more »| 03 Jul 2012 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen – July 2012
Hailing from hardcore punk superpower OFF!, Keith 'original Black Flag vocalist' Morris and Dimitri 'played guitar on a Bond theme' Coats carry a special license to say whatever the hell they like about July's single releases Read more »| 02 Jul 2012 -
Film
Who's Laughing Now? A Guide to Hollywood Comedy
The sorry state of American film comedy laid bare Read more »| 02 Jul 2012 -
Film
Film Event Highlights – July 2012
From a sing-along showing of Grease, to Club Noir's glamorous burlesque-and-classic-films event, to a celebration of unintentionally hilarious found footage, these are the highlights of July's film events across Scotland Read more »| 02 Jul 2012 -
Music
Om – Advaitic Songs
Since splintering from stoner rock legends Sleep in 2003, Om have moved, with each passing release, further towards a sound that draws upon Eastern c... Read more »| 02 Jul 2012 -
Music
Grasscut – Unearth
Grasscut’s follow-up to 2010’s 1 Inch: ½ Mile is accompanied by a book of pinhole camera photographs, and is also available - in an en... Read more »| 02 Jul 2012 -
Music
Shonen Knife – Pop Tune
Pop Tune is Shonen Knife’s 18th album. Ponder that a moment: the Osaka Ramones have now comfortably overtaken the actual Ramones’ recorded ou... Read more »| 02 Jul 2012