Gemini Genius: Ibeyi Interview
We chatted with Ibeyi – aka twin sisters Lisa-Kandé and Naomi Diaz – about their experiences playing Other Voices and the influences which fold together in their debut album.
Restaurant Review: The Saddle Rooms at The Shelbourne
Tipperary businessman Martin Burke's aim when he first opened the Shelbourne in 1824 was to ‘woo genteel custom who wanted solid, comfortable and serviceable accommodation at a fashionable address’.
Totally Dublin Weekender | February 5 – 8
Weekender: |wiːkˈɛndə|– noun – what to do in Dublin this weekend.
Born Again In The USA: Father John Misty Interview
Despite any artifice, the playacting, the rockstar booty-shaking, Father John Misty is, it turns out, the real Josh Tillman.
Album of the Month: No Monster Club – People Are Weird
Whether People Are Weird is a high watermark in for No Monster Club is unclear, but it is unquestionably an LP brimming with confidence and giddy experimentation.
Win a 3-course meal for 2 at Mourne Seafood Bar
We have a three course dinner for two at Mourne Seafood Bar including a bottle of wine and coffees to give away.
Restaurant Review: Sophie’s at The Dean
Last month, my distinguished colleague Daniel Gray visited The Dean Hotel as a Barfly scout. A month later, I was back to see how Sophie’s was maturing as a restaurant.
The Dharma Bum – Interview with Ian Lawton
Irish filmmaker Ian Lawton is putting together funding for a feature length, part-animated documentary called The Dharma Bum. The documentary investigates the travels and travails of Laurence Carroll, a free-thinking,
Book Review: A Useless Man: Selected Stories – Sait Faik Abasıyanık
A review of Sait Faik Abasıyanık's collection A Useless Man: Selected Stories
Book Review: This Changes Everything – Naomi Klein
Climate change, as Naomi Klein points out in the opening pages of This Changes Everything, is an issue we’re not comfortable thinking about, at least for any extended period of…
Book Review: Cristina and Her Double – Herta Müller
Review of Herta Müller's Cristina and Her Double
Book Review: Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Journey – Richard Ayoade
Richard Ayoade appears to field questions literally from himself, in a kind of bizarre shadow-interview, managing somehow to parse his personality and defy the laws of physics.
Book Review: 10:04 – Ben Lerner
The epigraph for Ben Lerner’s second novel 10:04 is Walter Benjamin’s description of Hasidic beliefs regarding the world to come, where ‘everything will be as it is now, just a…
Book Review: Davy Byrne’s Stories 2014
The Davy Byrne's Stories 2014 collection, put together by The Stinging Fly Press in association with Dublin UNESCO City of Literature, has had a particularly careful and collaborative gestation.
Album Review: Alex Calder – Strange Dreams
The other half of Project Makeout Videotape, Alex Calder, has much in common with partner in chime Mac DeMarco.
Album Review: Chris Potter’s Underground Orchestra – Imaginary Cities
Pushing the envelope has been the hallmark of Grammy-nominated Chris Potter’s distinctive recording career and this latest release Imaginary Cities builds on that hallmark and clearly does not disappoint.
Album Review: Napalm Death – Apex Predator – Easy Meat
Napalm Death deliver another in a recent run of punishing and innovative death metal records.