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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ArtChristian Newby @ Transmission
A large-scale, intensely patterned marbled-ink drawing decorates a freestanding wall in Transmission’s basement space. It’s stunning and compelli... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
ArtECA Degree Show 2011
Some images from the Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show 2011 Photography from Ross McLean Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
Art'You, Me, Something Else' @ GoMA 16 Sep 2011 - 18 March 2012
Works by some of Glasgow’s best known international artists are brought together for an exhibition of sculpture at the Gallery of Modern Art... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
Music
Teletextile – Glass
It’s difficult to fault Pamela Martinez’s Brooklyn-based Teletextile project in terms of craftsmanship. The songs here are stitched together from... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011 -
Music
Obake – Obake
In Japanese folklore, an obake can either be a ghost or a shapeshifter, but no matter what definition you choose to adopt it’s an apt moniker for this ... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011 -
Music
Pombagira - Iconoclast Dream
Way back in ’96, San Jose stoners Sleep recorded an album by the name of Dopesmoker and, while they weren’t too pleased with the label run-around... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011
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Music
Roll the Dice – In Dust
This Stockholm-based analogue synth duo, comprised of Malcolm Pardon and Fever Ray's Peder Mannerfelt, use their second LP to explore the same kinds of unash... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011 -
Music
Silver Seas – Chateau Revenge
The third LP from Nashville's Silver Seas sees them further honing their brand of melancholy, country-inflected jangle-pop. It's deeply nostalgic music, but ... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011 -
Music
Evangelista – In Animal Tongue
Many of Constellation’s flagship acts – GYBE in particular – peddle an overwrought apocalypticism that has come to feel increasingly tired ... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011 -
Music
Mikal Cronin – Mikal Cronin
While perhaps better known for his collaborations with Ty Segall (who handles production duties here), Mikal Cronin uses his first solo venture both as a cha... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011 -
Music
Wolves in the Throne Room – Celestial Lineage
Diadem of 12 Stars was a serious shot in the arm for USBM, a swirl of angelic chants and infernal shrieks; since then, Wolves in the Throne Room have alterna... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011 -
MusicRemember Remember – The Quickening
With their 2008 eponymous debut, Remember Remember beautifully encapsulated the sound of glacial, epic orchestrations trapped in the body of one man and his ... Read more »| 15 Sep 2011 -
Film
You Instead
You Instead attempts to capture the sights, sounds and smells of Britain's most rambunctious music festival, T in the Park. For the most part, it’s suc... Read more »| 15 Sep 2011 -
Film
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John le Carré’s labyrinthine, weighty tome returns as Tomas Alfredson’s intricate yet lean drama – producing one of the films of the... Read more »| 15 Sep 2011 -
Film
Growing Pains: An Interview with Céline Sciamma
We speak to French director Céline Sciamma about her second feature Tomboy, a lyrical tale of childhood identity set in a sun-dappled Parisian suburb Read more »| 15 Sep 2011