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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MusicHieroglyphics Deciphered
Easily as prolific as Wu-Tang, Oakland’s Hieroglyphics collective have a staggering back-catalogue. But where to start? Phesto gives us a few ideas… Read more »| 29 Jan 2010 -
MusicThe Metal Column - February 2010
Even though February is the shortest month of the year, four jam-packed weeks of killer gigs ensures that all the bases are covered (with blood, or course). ... Read more »| 28 Jan 2010 -
Music
Live Music Highlights - February, 2010
Detroit Social Club may hail from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, but they don't let that stop them from channeling the muscular spirit of US rock into their impressive... Read more »| 28 Jan 2010 -
Music
Holly Miranda - The Magician's Private Library
To enlist a name like Dave Sitek to produce your solo debut isn't the no-strings guarantee of success you might expect it to be. Because while the TV... Read more »| 28 Jan 2010 -
MusicGlassjaw @ QMU, 26 Jan
In the right venue, Pulled Apart By Horses (***) are bottled lightning, a visceral explosion of riffs and tactile interaction. Tonight that intensity feels d... Read more »| 28 Jan 2010 -
MusicThe Unwinding Hours - The Unwinding Hours
After the frustrating demise of Aereogramme under the pressure of the commercial flatline, any return to the music industry for singer Craig B and guitarist ... Read more »| 28 Jan 2010
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Music
Field Music - Field Music (Measure)
It's been three years since Field Music announced their hiatus, and we'd be the first to warmly welcome them back to our stereos and stages - if they'd actua... Read more »| 28 Jan 2010 -
Music
Thee Silver Mt. Zion - Kollaps Tradixionales
More than a decade after we first saw founding member Efrim Menuck stepping out of the shadow of Godpeed You! Black Emperor, Kollaps Tradixionales sh... Read more »| 27 Jan 2010 -
Music
Massive Attack - Heligoland
Massive Attack’s long-awaited fifth album – their first in seven years – feels more a spiritual successor to the all-star melting pot of UN... Read more »| 27 Jan 2010 -
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Musée Mécanique - Hold This Ghost
Taking their name from a curious Californian music-box museum (and conceived in a marginally more prosaic setting, an antique arcade museum), Musée M&... Read more »| 27 Jan 2010 -
Books
Heliopolis by James Scudamore.
James Scudamore is no stranger to critical acclaim– his debut, The Amnesia Clinic, won him the Somerset Maugham Award in 2007. It won't be surp... Read more »| 27 Jan 2010 -
Art
Darren Banks @ Sierra Metro
Perfectly offset by Sierra Metro’s dark room and white pillars, Banks’ new installation work is centrepieced with a heap of various domestic obje... Read more »| 27 Jan 2010 -
Music
Tom Stephan - Nervous Nitelife
Those with a keen interest in tribal and progressive house will perhaps recognise Tom Stephan's pseudonym, Superchumbo, under which he was a stalwart... Read more »| 27 Jan 2010 -
Music
Errors - Come Down With Me
Errors' ‘post-electro’ pigeonhole is becoming a little ill-fitting, although the immediacy of Come Down With Me’s starting salvo might init... Read more »| 26 Jan 2010 -
Music
Souls of Mischief: In Full Gear
Whether performing as half of the Hieroglyphics collective or striking out on their own, Oakland hip-hop foursome Souls of Mischief are living proof that sometimes you can’t spoil a good thing. But introducing acclaimed producer Prince Paul to the mix pushed them into new territory, explain MCs Tajai and Phesto. Read more »| 26 Jan 2010