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 Hands of the Wrong People - Spring Flakes
The Hands of the Wrong People are two-thirds German, but their sensitive, atmospheric guitar rock owes much to Scottish indie-pop tradition. While the band c... Read more »| 09 Apr 2009 -
MusicBroken Family Band - Please and Thank You
For Album Number Seven, most of the comparisons applied to the Broken Family Band’s past albums still stand: wittily cynical lyrics set to music that&r... Read more »| 09 Apr 2009 -
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Vangel - Biblio
Vangel, a Toronto=based DJ and producer, scours the libraries of his home cities for inspiration and samples. Read more »| 09 Apr 2009 -
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Art Goes Pop: Introducing Micachu and The Shapes
Having recently released their debut album on Rough Trade records, experimental pop band Micachu and The Shapes have been attracting a significant amount of ... Read more »| 08 Apr 2009 -
MusicBrakes - Touchdown
Initially epitomising the side project (members culled from the line-ups of several C-list indie groups - check! Five-second novelty throwaway tracks - check... Read more »| 08 Apr 2009 -
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Nadja - When I See the Sun it Always Shines on TV
This may very well be the world’s first catchy, singalong drone metal album. Read more »| 08 Apr 2009
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Art Brut - Art Brut vs. Satan
Recorded with Frank Black in what is a rare production outing for the Pixies frontman, punk outsiders Art Brut have retained the rambunctious energy and ende... Read more »| 08 Apr 2009 -
MusicPasse Montagne - Oh My Satan
There are 12 instrumentals in 21 minutes on Passe Montagne’s brilliantly titled second record Oh My Satan. Consisting of two jagged, scratchy no-wave g... Read more »| 08 Apr 2009 -
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Building Rome in a Day: The 48 Hour Film Project 2009
Some quarters of common knowledge suggest that Julius Caesar didn’t build Rome in a day and it took God nearly a week to create the Earth. A widely he... Read more »| 08 Apr 2009 -
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Junior Boys - Hazel
A woman with Hazel eyes ruffles the Junior Boys' normally cool exterior Read more »| 08 Apr 2009 -
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Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
The return of the mad scientist of hip-hop Read more »| 07 Apr 2009 -
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Patrick Wolf - Vulture
With over two years having passed since the release of his last single, The Magic Position, it’s reassuring to find Patrick Wolf still in the process o... Read more »| 07 Apr 2009 -
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Benjamin Wetherill @ The Bowery, 4 Apr
Fife Kills presents a night of alt-pop and freak folk, with Skinny favourite Rob St. John and Leeds based Benjamin Wetherill. Read more »| 07 Apr 2009 -
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Je Suis Animal - Fortune Map
Listening to Je Suis Animal is like peering through Lewis Carroll’s looking-glass - things seem familiar, but something you can’t quite put your ... Read more »| 07 Apr 2009 -
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Jeffrey Lewis - 'Em Are I
New York's renaissance slacker Jeffrey Lewis cultivates a prolific lifestyle, cramming the recording of this new album somewhere into a hectic touring, lectu... Read more »| 07 Apr 2009