Klaxons – Surfing the Void
Of all the cretinous, audacious crimes committed by Klaxons (inventing the nu-rave genre and all the day-glo Skins-gen horridness attached to it, binning the first edition of their sophomore album
Prince – 20Ten
Prince doesn’t have much truck with the internet these days, indeed he recently declared it to be “dead” (you will want to adjust your Facebook accounts accordingly). Conventional record labels
Big Boi – Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Despite the label wranglings, Big Boi’s delayed solo debut couldn’t have had a more timely release. Between mainstream hip-hop’s current squalor and Dirty South’s failure to progress beyond weak Lil
Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
Being both an inner-city boy and a post-Neon Bible cynic to the AF cause, you can imagine the cynicism I’ve approached the Suburbs with. All the begrudgery in a block
Liars Liars, Pants on Fire
When we talked to Angus Andrews, Liars’ Aussie-accented, Frankenstein-frontman, January snow was blowing in the window and we were still playing with the Game Boy Color we got for Christmas.
The Rebound
A single-mom-turned-cougar, an attractive male nanny with a degree in women’s studies, a green card marriage, and, of course, a rebound fling…if there’s a relationship cliché, it’s to be found
Toy Story 3
I have a confession to make. An admission which has troubled me deeply throughout my teenage and post-teenage years. Something which caused me no real chagrin until it became apparent
Splice
Splice is an all too rare gem of a sci-fi flick that manages to balance intelligence and good old-fashioned schlock. The story follows two cocky, young geniuses, Clive and Elsa,
The Concert
This odd mix of profound human drama and silly caper sees a rag-tag group of Russian musicians attempting to relive their conductor’s former glory by impersonating the Bolshoi Orchestra for
Inception
Dom Cobb is your average unstoppable thief and international fugitive, offered a chance at redemption through one last caper. But instead of stealing money or priceless jewels, he commits more
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
It’s sunny in Hull, I’m told. Ireland is overcast but that doesn’t dampen the spirit of Darren Bennett, star of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang which flies into Grand Canal Theatre
Sky Larkin – Still Windmills
Sky Larkin lead singer Katie Harkin sees potential in still windmills, the potential ‘to be activated and energized’. It could very well be the indie pop trio’s new single that
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
30 Days of Night director David Slade oversees the penultimate installment of the supernatural saga and, though considerably restrained in comparison to his previous work, Eclipse benefits tremendously from Slade’s
Leaving (Partir)
It’s a strange feature of mainstream-art-cinema that a great deal of its more ‘romantic’ output centres around bourgeois sexual fantasy rendered ‘acceptable’ by its assumed ‘culturally relevant’ status. The sight
Full Moon. Half Moon. Total Eclipse. Screenwriting Twilight
Melissa Rosenberg is one of U.S. television’s most prominent writers with credits such as Ally McBeal, The Outer Limits, The O.C. and most recently Dexter. However, these days she’s more
Bogboy
One day the playwright Deirdre Kinahan was out walking in a bog near her home in County Meath when she came across a bunch of flowers. The flowers were totally
7 Inches of Plastic: Interview with Nouveaunoise & Logikparty
Nouveau Riche:: Nial Conway and Conor Gaffney make up Nouveaunoise, Galway’s sample manipulators, electronic beep coaxers and acoustic layerers du jour. Their debut album, Paraphrase Accolade, was finally released this
Philip Selway – By Some Miracle
Considering that Phil Selway is best known as the drummer for Radiohead, there’s a noticeable lack of drums in By Some Miracle, the first single from his solo album, “Familial”.