Album Review: MCIII – Mikal Cronin
Definitely a talented constructor of melodic indie-rock, Mikal Cronin is nonetheless capable of smothering his own sound, when he clearly just wants to build it up.
Album Review: Peanut Butter – Joanna Gruesome
The legacies of punk and twee pop's best acts are most often untied knots. Thankfully, we have revisionist bands like Joanna Gruesome with pins out to stitch these threads together.
Album Review: Dumb Flesh – Blanck Mass
Sensory neuropathy – the equivalent of blindness for the sense of touch – is so rare a phenomenon as to render it almost unimaginable. Dumb Flesh is, perhaps, a coming…
Album Review: Elvis Depressedly – New Alhambra
Lovely? Sure. But perhaps making more noise would do Mr. Depressedly some good.
Album Review: Who Me? – Juan Wauters
Juan Wauters, much like his most pronounced influence, Jonathan Richman, trades in a brand of profound juvenilia.
Album Review: Warm Soda – Symbolic Dream
Warm Soda are power poppers in the truest sense: crisp 4/4 drums remain almost unchanged throughout, guitar solos are telegraphed long in advance and it’s all immense fun.
Book Review: Time Ages in a Hurry – Antonio Tabucchi
If the past is a foreign country, then the present must be equally different for those unsuited to it. In Time Ages in a Hurry, the late Italian author Antonio…
Book Review: Words Without Music: A Memoir – Philip Glass
As the title suggests, Glass is someone who keenly feels the limitations of words, counting Beckett and Ginsberg among past collaborators. Maybe this is why the book comes packaged with…
Interview: Kirkos Blackout
Kirkos ensemble, made up of some of the country’s most promising young musicians & headed up by composers Sebastian Adams & Robert Coleman, are one of the most exciting propositions…
Barfly – McCloskey’s
McCloskey’s is an outlier. It’s a haven of suburban traditionalism. Genuine, sometimes surly, profoundly unglamorous traditionalism. A standard-bearer for those kicking against the pricks who exalt gimmickry and tourist pandering,…
Barfly – The Beer Market
You can only order one thing in this place, and that’s beer. Not only that, but every single one of their twenty beer taps are on rotation. There’s no fixed…
Win a pair of tickets to see Leo Drezden at Mermaid Arts Centre
There's a cracking musical line-up in store on Saturday 6th June as post punk Leo Drezden play The Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray with support from Everything Shook and Joni.
Cinema Review: The Tribe
Set in a bleak, run-down institutional school, The Tribe sees its adolescent students engage in prostitution, burglary, ultra-violence and extortion to make a quick buck, inside and out of the…
Cinema Review: The Connection (La French)
In many ways, and as the title suggests, this is the French side to the American story that was William Friedkin’s The French Connection.
Cinema Review: Poltergeist
Sinister forces from beyond-the-grave haunt the Bowen family home in this reboot of the Poltergeist franchise.
Cinema Review: San Andreas
San Andreas won’t win any screenwriting awards but the family drama at the centre of this disaster film is resonant enough to prop up its flimsy spectacle.
Cinema Review: Top Five
Despite its lead character leaving laughter behind, Top Five is largely funny and sometimes hysterical, exploring fame in a way that is personal without feeling indulgent.
Cinema Review: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
After making a much deserved splash at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night finally reaches Irish shores. Amirpour has created a gorgeous fever…