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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MusicAnimal Collective - Fall Be Kind
Animal Collective are outstandingly prolific. So reason suggests that after ten years of activity, they have to put out the inevitable clunker, right? Wrong.... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
Film
A Serious Man
Larry Gropnik (Stuhlbarg) is a midwestern Jewish physics professor and 1967’s answer to Job. He has a cheating wife, an incapacitated brother, ... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
MusicThe Flaming Lips @ O2 Academy, 15 Nov
Perhaps even euphoria suffers from diminishing returns. That the Flaming Lips trade in such a sought-after commodity so successfully is certainly not... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
MusicAmy Millan - Masters of the Burial
An integral component in the success of Canadian indie heroes Stars and Broken Social Scene, Amy Millan’s mellifluous tones are somewhat exposed on thi... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
ClubsAnnie Mac Presents @ Xplicit, 21 Nov
Xplicit offers a line-up to rival the average London night on 21 November as the Annie Mac Presents Tour arrives in Edinburgh. Hand-picked by the first lady... Read more »| 19 Nov 2009 -
Music
Maxwell Panther - Do You Feel Different Yet?
What’s lower than lo-fi? No-fi still sounds daft. Belo-lo-fi? Whatever - when the genre-baptists decide upon a suitable candidate, Maxwell Panther can ... Read more »| 19 Nov 2009
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Music
Alice in Chains @ Barrowlands, 12 Nov
It’s fitting that Alice in Chains’ first European tour with new material in 16 years should begin within the dusty climes of the Barrowlands. Hav... Read more »| 19 Nov 2009 -
Music
Tegan and Sara @ HMV Picture House, 15 Nov
Given the unbelievable difficulty I had in persuading someone to come see Tegan and Sara with me, I began to fear that I was missing something. However, I wa... Read more »| 19 Nov 2009 -
MusicShield Your Eyes - Shield Em
There is something to be said for bands who put significant effort into making music that doesn’t follow the generic 4/4 verse-chorus-verse structure o... Read more »| 19 Nov 2009 -
Music
Cosmo Jarvis - HUMASYOUHITCH/SONOFABITCH
Everyone loves to hate a gifted progeny, those savants who are way too successful, way too young. This charge could well be levied at 20 year old multi-instr... Read more »| 18 Nov 2009 -
Music
BEAK> - BEAK>
Passive readers of certain mainstream music publications may have noticed an increasingly recurring namedrop recently: 1970s krautrock daddies Neu! are cool ... Read more »| 18 Nov 2009 -
Music
Schwervon! @ Henry's Cellar Bar, 5 Dec
Nan Turner and Matt Roth began recording together as Schwervon! soon after they "met and fell in love amidst the fertile gutters of NYC". Their Low Blow alb... Read more »| 18 Nov 2009 -
Art
Mircea Cantor @ The Common Guild
Cantor’s show rises to the occasion of the Common Guild. The viewer is confronted by a catalogue of interconnected fragments of an enigmatic narrative,... Read more »| 18 Nov 2009 -
Theatre
The Merry Widow
Making a successful transition from classic to contemporary requires the courage to toy with the boundaries of convention. Director Cezary Tomaszewski gives this formula a satirical twist in his avant-garde version of The Merry Widow. Read more »| 17 Nov 2009 -
Music
Shred Yr Face III @ Stereo, 13 Nov
It’s always nice to catch a gig where each band inhabits a similar universe but ultimately brings an entirely different set of sounds and influences to... Read more »| 17 Nov 2009