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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MusicPissed Jeans - King of Jeans
Pissed Jeans are pissed off. Pissed off that they're becoming the white collar drones they swore to Tyler Durden they’d never be. Pissed off about havi... Read more »| 03 Aug 2009 -
MusicMetric: A New System
Canadian synth-rockers Metric recently broke a four year silence with an assured fourth album, Fantasies, earlier this year. Ryan Drever sits down with guitarist James Shaw to find out what the hell took them so long Read more »| 03 Aug 2009 -
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We The Faceless - Isle Of Dogs
Isle Of Dog's dirty, chugging riff, sluggishly bursts into life like a fat man hopping through a ring of fire. It is meaty, I'll give it that, but once you g... Read more »| 03 Aug 2009 -
FilmBroken Embraces
Throughout his career Spanish director Pedro Almodovar has enthralled his audiences with unusual tales of human relationships. In his trademark palette of re... Read more »| 03 Aug 2009 -
ArtAileen M. Stackhouse @ Sierra Metro
As one of the 11 new spaces at this year’s EAF, Sierra Metro is making its inaugural show count. In keeping with the sculpture trend awash over the res... Read more »| 03 Aug 2009 -
Music
Going Local
With such top-notch acts as David Byrne and Jeffrey Lewis, this year’s Edge Festival in Edinburgh is not to be sniffed at. However, if you look beyond such high-profile events you’ll also find a whole host of unmissable local talent this August, finds Milo McLaughlin and Dave Kerr Read more »| 31 Jul 2009
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Music
The Dirty Dozen - August, 2009
This month's CD stack runs the gamut from East Neuk folk to South London hip-hop. Nick Mitchell packs his earphones for the journey Read more »| 31 Jul 2009 -
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Amanda Fucking Palmer
Former Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer returns to Edinburgh this month with her solo punk cabaret. Before she does, Nine bends her ear on matters of the art Read more »| 31 Jul 2009 -
Music
Chali 2na: Catch Of The Day
Through his tenure at the helm of hip-hop collective Jurassic 5, Chali 2na established himself as a talented and instantly recognisable MC. Following the group's untimely demise in 2007, 2na steps out on his own with the long overdue Fish Outta Water this month. Ryan Drever talks to the man himself to find out how it came to be Read more »| 31 Jul 2009 -
Film
Rumba
Revelling in the theory that the best comedians should be seen and not heard (take a bow Jacques Tati, take a pratfall Buster Keaton), new French comedy Rumb... Read more »| 31 Jul 2009 -
Art
EAF: A Skinny Guide
It’s time for sensory overload for Edinburgh residents as the festivals descend on the city bringing along their screaming hordes and peerless art work... Read more »| 31 Jul 2009 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: The Revenge
Glasgow's best kept secret, The Revenge, selects his ten favourite tracks of the moment ahead of his exclusive mix for The Skinny's new podcast Read more »| 30 Jul 2009 -
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The xx – xx
If ‘spectral pop’ is to be the tag that follows London quartet The xx and their debut album, then they can probably rest easy as it’s not e... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009 -
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Sexy Beasts
With a new record packed with carnal energy to promote, Wild Beasts frontman Hayden Thorpe wants to celebrate Britain's sensuous side, he tells Duncan Forgan. Read more »| 30 Jul 2009 -
Music
In the Studio: Nine Black Alps
It's the last day on our stay at Beethoven Street studios in London. We've spent four days here and ten days in a remote farm studio in North Wales recording... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009