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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MusicErrors - It's Not Something But It Is Like Whatever
A brilliantly synthetic album Read more »| 29 May 2008 -
Music
Lykke Li - Youth Novels
Swedish songstress delivers very promising debut Read more »| 29 May 2008 -
MusicJohnny Foreigner - Waited Up 'Til It Was Light
Awash with striding cuts of teenage gusto, this is an exhilarating and triumphant debut - just remember to don those ear-plugs. Read more »| 29 May 2008 -
MusicI Hear a New World (June, 2008)
Innovative and unusual music from Scotland and beyond Read more »| 29 May 2008 -
MusicAlphabeat - This Is Alphabeat
Could this be the worst album of the decade? Read more »| 29 May 2008 -
Clubs
James Priestley @ Workshop, The GRV, Guthrie Street, Edinburgh, 14 June
More new parties are hitting the GRV, boosting the roster of clubs with Workshop - a new series of house-offs across the capital Read more »| 29 May 2008
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Clubs
Ed Chamberlain and Lief Ryan @ Substance, Henry's Cellar Bar, Edinburgh, 14 June
Substance bring two rising stars to Edinburgh for four hours of quality techno Read more »| 29 May 2008 -
Music
Tokyo Police Club: Not Just Making Up The Numbers
They're young, ambitious and, er, highly professional. Not your average rock band then, as Finbarr Bermingham comes to learn Read more »| 28 May 2008 -
Music
Headhunter - Initiate EP
It’s a solid offering adding more weight to the Tempa name and indeed helping to establish a name that’s maybe not the most prolific or talked about producer on the block Read more »| 28 May 2008 -
Music
Testcard - Lines
Sounding like a extremely lame child of The Faint, the album takes the late 80s pop blueprint and... well, doesn't really do much with it Read more »| 28 May 2008 -
Music
The Aliens @ The Liquid Room, 16 Jun (CANCELLED - 3 Jun)
Quality pop songs in the key of Fife, if you will Read more »| 28 May 2008 -
MusicMy Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Will The Real Jim James please stand up? Read more »| 28 May 2008 -
Film
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
And so here we are - the greatest action hero in the history of cinema returns after a 19 year absence. Most of the elements that made the first three advent... Read more »| 27 May 2008 -
Music
Silver Jews vs. The World
Literally sitting on the edge of his seat backstage at Glasgow’s ABC, an animated David Berman rails against current trends in popular music. The reflective coordinator behind the countrified, lo-fi indie rock of the Silver Jews tells Paul Mitchell why we've become too complacent to rage against the machine Read more »| 27 May 2008 -
Music
Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
Songs in A&E maintains a natural development in the band's career: quieter, yes, but as thunderously emotive as ever Read more »| 27 May 2008