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 Twilight Sad @ Cabaret Voltaire
It's Tuesday night for God's sake! What the fuck are yis all doing here? Graham humbly asks of the crowd, blissfully unaware his band are about to take over the world Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Clubs
Modeselektor, The Art School, Glasgow, 2 Nov
Their back catalogue now includes everything from four-to-the-floor techno to rump shaking house tinged hip-hop Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
BooksExit Ghost by Philip Roth
How close an alter-ego is Nathan Zuckerman to Philip Roth? Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Music
Alabama 3 @ Carling Academy
Moments of sudden excitement are submerged into uninspired, rhythm-heavy workouts Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
MusicThe New Pornographers - Myriad Harbour
It's more Frank Beige than Black Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Music
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
"Attention, pay attention!" barks Dave Grohl, like a cocksure drill instructor. If 2005's In Your Honor was their Led Zep-styled lunge at bombastic, sonic co... Read more »| 08 Oct 2007
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Music
Metal Up Your Ass - October
Bursting at the seams with raucous gig action Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Music
XFM Charts
Jim Gellatly's X-Posure Top 101. The Wombats - Let's Dance To Joy Division2. The Steeples - Britney's Tears3. Zoey Van Goey - Foxtrot Vandals4. Dragons - Lon... Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
MusicThe Dirty Dozen - October
Knee deep in the coming month's singles, Nick Mitchell pans for gold. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Music
Introducing: Genaro
It's great that people like what we do, but we'd still be creating music regardless - Derek Bates Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
MusicA Muso's Top 10: The National
This month, Matt Berninger talks about his mentors and doles out the tunes currently populating his headphones. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Clubs
Slam - We're Not Here Remixes
Stawarz has taken the song back to a more 'traditional' club-friendly techno while still injecting something new to the freaky ambiance of the original Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Music
Thomas Truax - Like A Fallen Tree
Bizarre, unsettling beauty Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Music
Zoey van Goey - Foxtrot Vandals
It's pretty. It's nice. It's musical cup-a-soup. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Music
Broken Social Scene presents... Kevin Drew @ The Arches, 15 Oct
BSS are following the Wu-Tang path to world domination... Read more »| 08 Oct 2007