Rocky Horror Picture Show
With the Halloween season creeping up on us like a 13 year old carrying a pile of eggs, Grand Canal Theatre have embraced the October holiday with a five night
Legowelt
With 20 pseudonyms and counting, Danny Wolfers is impossibly hard to pigeonhole. Born and raised in The Hague, the man most commonly known as Legowelt is steeped in the electronic
No Age – Everything In Between
No Age’s gig in Exchange Dublin was so loud that it drew complaints, police, and essentially stopped gigs in the venue for nine months afterwards. That’s their thing, if you
Sufjan Stevens – The Age Of Adz
Five years later, Sufjan’s sixth album proper has arrived. Not about a state, or birds, or an expressway. Audaciously, it’s just an album, and a pretty good one at that.
The Hundred In The Hands – The Hundred In The Hands
THITH are a Cindy Sanders band. Aesthetically perfect in that way only Brooklynite boy-girl projects can be, signed to Warp, and currently boasting a promo video where a girl pukes
Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
Prolific as Bradford Cox is, one suspects he may have finally run aground creatively here. Halcyon Digest sees much retreading of old territory, with any new paths explored turning into
The Town
It’s easy to forget that despite having made some terrible films, Ben Affleck is in fact a triple threat; writer, director, actor. The danger of being seen as an egotist
Devil
The film begins with a person committing suicide by jumping from a building narrated by Ramirez (Jacob Vargas) who mentions that his mother tells him stories of the Devil roaming
The Other Guys
New York City Police Detectives Christopher Danson (Dwayne Johnson) and P. K. Highsmith (Samuel L. Jackson) are the toughest and most famous cops in the city with the best capture
Music – Interview – Thread Pulls
Minimalist is one thing, Thread Pulls are another. With only two members, typically playing bass and drums and embellishing them with textural loops, they craft austere but accessible post-punk of
The Dublin Ulster Bank Theatre Festival
The Dublin Ulster Bank Theatre Festival rolls into town at the end of the month and runs for just under three weeks. With 31 shows in over 22 venues with
Getting The Gremlins Out Of Joe Dante
Legendary director Joe Dante is releasing his much-anticipated, The Hole 3D this week. A filmmaker who is has never been afraid to scare youngsters with such films as Gremlins, The
Motor City Drum Ensemble
We’ve lost count of the amount of times we’ve heard people whinging about Irish closing times, or the lack of good night clubs, or any one of several other gripes
Squick and Easy
It’s difficult to believe that Meljoann’s impeccably produced, woozily electro-influenced R’n’B came from Dublin, but it did. TD tries to find out how it happened. So you were presented to
The Abominable Grinderman
She was raised by beasts Photographed by vultures Here come the Wolfman! The Abominable Snowman! Gotta little poison Gotta little gun Sitting in the bathtub Waiting for the Wolfman to
Entering The Void with Gaspar Noe
Gaspar Noé is one of the world’s most divisive, loathed and admired directors, this month releasing his third feature-length film, Enter The Void, on the international market. It is loosely
Interview: Discotekken
Customer loyalty is an increasingly rare thing when it comes to club nights; however, Discotekken is fast becoming an institution. Those who go to this monthly night in the Twisted
Mano Le Tough – Baby Let’s Love
Greystones ex-pat Mano Le Tough’s latest concoction, the Baby Let’s Love ep, has landed on Dirt Crew records, and it’s another step in the right direction for the Berlin transplant.