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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MusicTestcard - 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 -
MusicThe 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 -
FilmIndiana 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
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Theatre
Tango
The Polish influx is now extending to the arts, with Polish Absurdism reaching the Ramshorn Read more »| 27 May 2008 -
Music
V/A - Toolroom Knights Mixed by Tom Novy & Wally Lopez
Novy shows a disconcerting love of cheesy vocals though his instrumental version of Ono’s No No No Read more »| 27 May 2008 -
Clubs
Findo Gask @ Record Playerz, The Art School, Glasgow, 12 June
Findo Gask's melodic but certainly danceable sound is the perfect anecdote to 'mad-wae-it' techno noize overload Read more »| 27 May 2008 -
Music
Fanattica - Edingrad
Balkan-influenced mania to make even the scurviest of sea dogs heave and haul those oars Read more »| 27 May 2008 -
Music
Bilge Pump - Rupert the Sky
A disturbing and difficult album Read more »| 27 May 2008 -
Music
A Subtle Guide to Hip-Hop
Once dismissed as "a fake ass Marky Mark" in a rap battle against Eminem, Adam "DoseOne" Drucker has taken his vision of what hip-hop represents to dizzy heights with cult favourites cLOUDDEAD and his latest Subtle venture. Ali Maloney finds out his secret, but doesn't mention that he looks like his long lost identical twin Read more »| 26 May 2008 -
Music
Steve Von Till - A Grave Is A Grim Horse
A striking and heart-rending late night desert soundtrack Read more »| 26 May 2008 -
Music
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Toronto-based Crystal Castles are the kind of band whose persona and music screams ‘WE ARE SO SCENE!’, and the fact that they appeared on the mos... Read more »| 25 May 2008 -
Music
Various Artists - My Favourite Things
This compilation from Mule Musiq's ambient and experimental offspring lacks the power of its parent's 12"s Read more »| 24 May 2008