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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MusicThe Blood Arm – Turn and Face Me
As one would expect of Franz Ferdinand's favourite band, an endorsement which may or may not be decreasing in value with each passing year, Los Angeles quart... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
MusicAlex Skolnick Trio – Veritas
By their fourth album, most bands would already have the bottom of the barrel well and truly scraped, but for Alex Skolnick’s jazz trinity this is prob... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
MusicShonen Knife – Free Time
Despite multiple line-up changes, Shonen Knife’s set up and style has been unswerving across their thirty year existence: three girls, three chords, an... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
Books
Beauty and The Inferno by Roberto Saviano
Gomorrah, journalist Roberto Saviano’s exposé of the Neapolitan Camorra crime organisation, quickly became an international bestsel... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
MusicBrian Eno – Drums Between the Bells
Drums Between the Bells is the latest in Brian Eno’s long list of collaborative works, kick-started in 2003 with poet Rick Holland and featuring a revo... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
Art
Rudimentary Perfection: Birth of a Movement
Mark Lyken says Rudimentary Perfection is the UK’s first ever Graffuturism exhibiton. But what is this Graffuturism? And what exactly is happening? Read more »| 24 Jun 2011
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Music
Chilly Gonzales – The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales
“It’s entertainment but if you listen the genius is in the arrangements,” our virtuoso pianist and aspiring rapper takes to critiquing hims... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
Art
Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2011
Perusing the offerings of tomorrow’s art stars is always overwhelming. We make our annual pilgrimage to the Central Belt degree shows, hoping to emerge with some senses intact Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
Clubs
Numbers is 8: Floating Points & Spencer
Manchester’s Floating Points, aka Sam Sheppard, has already made a huge mark on the electronic music scene in a shockingly short time. His numerous rel... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
Music
Cats and Cats and Cats – Mother Whale
Much like label-mates Shield Your Eyes, there is an underlying core of almost classic songmanship to Cats and Cats and Cats, but it lies so deep beneath the ... Read more »| 23 Jun 2011 -
Art
ECA Degree Show 2011
Perusing the offerings of tomorrow’s art stars is always overwhelming. We make our annual pilgrimage to the Central Belt degree shows, hoping to emerge with some senses intact Read more »| 23 Jun 2011 -
Music
Junior Boys – It's All True
It’s All True was written and recorded in Shanghai, Berlin and Hamilton, Ontario. Hamilton goes without saying; it’s the town the Boys call home.... Read more »| 23 Jun 2011 -
Music
Gardens & Villa – Gardens & Villa
Gardens & Villa’s debut album is frustratingly half-baked, rendering successes such as Thorn Castles’ Shins-esque ditty and opener Black Hill... Read more »| 23 Jun 2011 -
Music
The Wrong Boyfriends – Wrong Fucking Century Darling
With a packing-crate full of irreverent, if oddly relevant, lyrics and a sound that doesn’t know whether it’s worshipping Nick Cave or The Clash,... Read more »| 23 Jun 2011 -
Music
Hey Colossus – RRR
Despite churning albums out at a startling rate, the quality control on Hey Colossus’ assembly line of acid-doom rarely dips below the magic mark... Read more »| 23 Jun 2011