Album Review: Uknowwhatimsayin¿ by Danny Brown
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Something is happening with rap’s favourite eccentric Danny Brown. His signature screwball flourish of hair is now a no-frills buzz cut, his trademark broken teeth…
Album Review: All Mirrors by Angel Olsen
★ ★ ★ ★ While many musicians reach a point in their careers where they start incorporating string arrangements and black-and-white portrait photography as album art, Angel Olsen has a…
Unplanned: The Film, The Controversy
The Film Unplanned, based on the memoirs of Abby Johnson, is a film that follows Abby as a clinic director at a Texas Planned Parenthood location, and her subsequent transition…
Reaching Across the Aisle: Interviewing the Editors of the University Observer
(Note: Elements of this interview are satirical) In a dimly lit College Tribune office on a wet Friday afternoon, history was made. Members of UCD’s two illustrious newspapers sat down…
Celery Juice in the Mornings: Yay or Nay?
Recently, the trend of drinking fresh celery juice in the morning took the world by storm. YouTubers, health bloggers and even celebrities joined the bandwagon – it was seen that…
The Importance of Saying No
“No’ – the stuff of nightmares. I often wonder how this word, one of the simplest words we first learn, can be the hardest to say. The advice we’re often…
Trance Wax Lights up Dublin with a Set to be Remembered
Garry McCartney, who goes under the alias ‘EJECA’ or ‘Trance Wax’ depending on the show, is a young techno DJ from Belfast. He has been putting on performances across Europe…
Hello, Love, Goodbye: Should I think of you or should I think of myself?
Hello, Love, Goodbye: Should I think of you or should I think of myself? ★ ★ ★ ★ This question has always attached itself to me, even today. If one…
Netflix Recommendations
The Social Network (Film) ★ ★ ★ ★ This 2010 film chronicles Mark Zuckerberg’s path to creating Facebook, a journey which began in his college dorm. The film is primarily…
Film Review: Parasite
★ ★ ★ ★ While Bong Joon Ho might be a name unfamiliar with most western audiences, he has proven time and time again to be capable of making extraordinary…
Film & TV News
The 44th annual Toronto Film Festival ran from the 5th to the 15th of September, with Taika Waititi’s ‘Jojo Rabbit’ taking home the People’s Choice Award. The film received understandably…
Artist Interview: Keywest
Keywest are one of Ireland’s leading bands, with some 200,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and over 164,000 followers across social media channels. In fact, they are officially Ireland’s biggest independent…