Good Morning Baltimore: Interview with Beach House
The mellifluous Victoria Legrande returns to her day job and talks about the "sexual" new record that's causing such a flutter.
Spread
As arrogant as its narcissistic protagonist Nikki, a serial womaniser who relies on his good looks and seduction techniques to sustain his lavish lifestyle, whether Spread is intended as an
Happy Ever Afters
When two wedding parties collide in Stephen Burke’s ‘screwball Irish wedding comedy’, the results are disastrous in more ways then one. Burke makes a number of recognizable ceremonial clichés the
Empire State Of Mind: The Jay-Z Interview
In 1996 Shawn Corey Carter emerged as a rapper and a promising lyricist. Now, 13 years on, Jay-Z is a platinum selling artist with more numbers ones than Elvis. But
Vampire Weekend – Contra
Okay, knives out. The Columbia rich-kid afro-indie pioneers are back, and even if you allowed that there were enough undeniable pieces of pop genius on the debut, it’s surely time
Rihanna – Rated R
When you’re the biggest female r’n’b star in the world and you’re about to follow up one of the best pop albums of recent years with eagerly anticipated new material
Snoop Dogg – Malice N Wonderland
Snoop Dogg has made it. His painstaking self-promotion has given him such a prominent public profile that it actually doesn’t matter what his music sounds like. A few guest verses
St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold
The bewilderingly successful revival of the St Trinian’s franchise back in 2007 has apparently given its investors reason enough to begin a new term at the boarding school for troublesome
Bunny and the Bull & The Mighty Boosh’s Paul King
The wildly inventive Bunny and the Bull could only be the product of Paul King’s imagination, director of cult classics The Mighty Boosh and Garth Meringhi’s Dark Place. However his
Humpday
Despite the suggestiveness of the title, Lynn Shelton’s new one is more concerned with modern bromance than getting down ‘n dirty. With the impromptu entrance of Andrew, the self-styled Kerouac,
Superhero Nymphomaniacs: CoisC
CoisCéim Dance theatre company was founded fifteen years ago this coming February. I met with David Bolger and Muirne Bloomer who have been involved with CoisCéim from the start to
Efterklang – Modern Drift
Hot on the heels of the news they’ll be playing Whelan’s in April, Efterklang have unveiled details of their upcoming new album Magic Chairs along with a brand new single
Not Of This God
As one of the surviving titans of thrash metal, Slayer have earned immunity from being criticised in the eyes of some. Afterall, the main criticism levelled at them focuses on
Heads We Dance
Joining the unending stream of electro-poppers to come to prominence this year, British trio Heads We Dance stake their claim to the crown held by French disco with a track
Where the Wild Things Are
For Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers to have crafted this brave, beautiful adaptation based on a children’s book nine sentences in length is an astonishing accomplishment, one that proves original
The Limits of Control
Failing to better such past achievements as Dead Man and Down by Law, The Limits of Control is a pretentious work of abstraction and shameless self-indulgence that does a disservice
The Box
Borrowing a promising premise from Richard Matheson’s short story Button Button, itself adapted into an early episode of The Twilight Zone, Donnie Darko creator Richard Kelly manages to establish an
Johnny Mad Dog
The eponymous Johnny Mad Dog is the teenage leader of an African rebel faction of child soldiers who answer to the war cry, ‘If you don’t want to die, don’t