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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Music
Mice Parade @ King Tut's
Winsome melodies building to well-orchestrated climaxes and ecstatic flamenco-influenced wailing Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Hard-Fi @ Abc
The energy and the atmosphere provided by Hard-Fi's live set means that, for once, a Mercury nomination does not denote a black hole into oblivion Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
MusicStephen Fretwell - Man On The Roof
The music is only bettered by Fretwell's breathy, naturally-fluid vocals Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Slayer - Christ Illusion
Still kicking out the sickest of Satanic jams Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Reverend And The Makers - The State of Things
More relevant than most of the self-avowedly 'oop-Nawth' bands out there, but it's no work of ecclesiastical genius Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Paul Curreri - The Velvet Rut
Curreri adds theatricality to his folk-country and never takes himself too seriously Read more »| 08 Oct 2007
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MusicMV & EE with The Golden Road - Gettin' Gone
This is an album of true musicianship Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Musicmúm - Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy
Go Go is múm's prettiest progeny since her first Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
Songwriting and production that is easily amongst the best leftfield rock out there Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Manu Chao - La Radiolina
a significant departure from previous offerings, drawing more from American rock than Hispanic folk music Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Jonah Matranga - And
While a positive analogy for this style might be a musical mug of cocoa, a more honest one would be a musical shot of morphene Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
Not bad for a guy with a gnarly beard Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Georgie James - Places
The past may well be unavoidable but Places is one record you can easily elude Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Fink - Distance and Time
It may be nice to think of those fly-by-night shysters as Pepsis to Fink's 'real-thing', Distance and Time just doesn't quite pass the taste challenge Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Eagles of Death Metal @ The Liquid Room
As tunes go, this is, all told, uber-catchy Status Quo on crack, but as rock'n' roll shows go, this is nothing less than sweet perfection Read more »| 08 Oct 2007