Major Lazer – Hold The Line
This single comes with a strange providence, as baffling as the tapestry of samples- phone vibrations, ringing cash registers and neighing horses- that make up its chorus. Some sources claim
Jamie T – Sticks ‘N’ Stones
‘He’s out on the town trying to find trouble’, but Jamie T’s latest ode to laddish exploits tells the story of an embarassingly abortive night out. When he spits out
Music – Interview – Patrick Kelleher
What do a hazelnut spread jar, a baby accordion and a drum machine have in common? They are the unlikely ingredients in a recipe for genius. Originally from Glendalough, Co.
!!! – A Chat Chat Chat with Chk Chk Chk
It’s the bane of any journalist’s life: the transatlantic phoner. It will inevitably take place on the hottest day of the year when the object of your professional desires would
Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Kasabian’s long-standing alignment with the Gallagher brothers has been both the making and the ruin of them. It seems that, try as they might, their name cannot be mentioned in
The Gossip – Music For Men
In their tenth year as a band, the Gossip make their return with a fourth studio album, Music for Men. Frontwoman Beth Ditto is famously fond of laying herself bare,
Regina Spektor – Far
I have something to confess. I’m in love with little Reginka. Thus, objectivity is not a strong point of mine on this front. However, it is with a heavy heart
Eternal Damnation
When Stephen Adly Guirgis wrote The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot, he wanted to cast a fair light on the Bible’s most infamous kiss-and-tell. Set in downtown purgatory, it is
Interview With Claire Kirby
American playwright William Mastrosimone caused a stir when his play Extremities first hit the stage in 1982. It dared to raise a sensitive topic that was usually hushed and brandished
La Roux – La Roux
Is the retro-futurist girlpop movement capable of yielding even one memorable album? La Roux’s fellow frontrunner Little Boots unleashed a debut album as flat as Dot Cotton’s walking corpse, and
Phoenix – Interview With Thomas Mars
Every summer has a sound. Last year, Vampire Weekend and MGMT soundtracked festivals and barbecues the world over and now, at the dawn of summer ’09, it’s starting to sound
A Woman In Progress – Panti Interview
Panti “Pandora Bliss”, is there anything this one woman extraordinaire hasn’t done? From founding Alternative Miss Ireland waaay back in 1987, to running her own bar in Capel St., aptly
Legion of Two
Alan O’Boyle and David Lacey should really need no introduction to anyone who has followed the Dublin music scene over the last 15 years. They are legends in their own
Music – Interview – DM Stith
How does one go from being a shy kid, brought up in a staunchly religious home, to being one of the most talked-about new artists on New York’s esteemed indie
Slumdog Millionaire
How does anybody come to acquire the knowledge that brings them to the turning point in their life? This is the question put to 18-year-old Jamal Malik, played by Dev