Weyes Blood at The Workman’s Club
Natalie Mering released a career pinnacle fourth LP last year. Front Row Seat to Earth is delivered from a celestial vantage point weaving haunting vocals and ornate instrumentation.
Talos Strategy
"The process of making music is a very interior thing. That side of it is interesting to me". We sat down for a deep dive into how a background in…
Design: Making Repeal Appealing
“With protest and design, rhetoric or linguistics around movements can be alienating so you need to make it accessible.” The role of design and creativity in the Repeal movement.
Roadmap: Hear Me Now
The spirit of The Joinery, that much loved cultural hub in Stoneybatter, is being resurrected for one night in Now Hear This Too.
Roadmap: Ship To Shore
Dublin Port Company is creating a series of site-specific public artworks in response to the Port and its relationship with the city.
Roadmap: Girl on Girl
An exploration of how young women are using photography and the internet to explore issues of self-image and female identity, and the impact this is having on contemporary art.
Roadmap: Music Current – Something in the Waters
Billed as a “showcase for the best in new Irish and international contemporary electronic music”, Music Current returns for its second outing later this month.
Roadmap: Farrago Festival
Missed out on those EP tickets? Don’t sweat. Why not swop it for a castle in Bavaria this year?
Roadmap: New Visuals
The visual arts scene is witnessing a changing of the guard in 2017.
Roadmap: Kamasi Time
Kamasi Washington is cutting jazz some extra slack. Get your tickets in double time.
Roadmap: Little Atoms
Split between interviews and essays, issue No. 2 has contributions from Maria Konnikova, Peter Pomerantsev, Molly Crabapple and Kate Arney.
When Passion Drives Ability: Inside I’m Racing
Shot at Mondello Park, working closely with the Friends of Autism, Inside I'm Racing tells the story of fifteen-year-old Jamie who is autistic.
Soundbite: Clonakilty Brewing Company
We talk to Dubliner Lisa Tonge and Norwegian Frank R. Fredriksen (aka Thirsty Frank) about the Norwegian influenced brews they’re developing at their innovative Clonakilty based micro-brewery, and plans to…
Audio Review: Children of Alice – Children of Alice
Distinctly pastoral in palette, spry and measured in its balance between the eerie and playful- Children of Alice serves as a timely reminder of Cargill and co’s unique skill set.
To Die For: Assassination Custard
Assassination Custard, like the writers who inspired its name, is one of those rare things: a true original.
Roadmap: Allez Les Blues – 2017 Franco-Irish Literary Festival
“Fashion passes, style remains” is the rather splendid motto of the late Coco Chanel and also the theme of the 2017 edition of the Franco-Irish Literary Festival.
Barfly: Last Orders – Jack Nealon’s
With only a few weeks left before the doors finally close, it seems like the most pertinent move would be to drop in for a quiet one, two or three…
Artsdesk: Aleana Egan and The Constructive Power of Uncertainty
“We all yearn for certainty but nothing is certain”. Aleana Egan talks to us about the constructive power of uncertainty and the centrality of literary influences to her work