Film In Review: Isle of Dogs
Wes Anderson’s latest stop-motion is an absolute overflow of his extremely unique filmmaking style and creative eye. In fact, it so carefully toes the line between effective and overdone, but…
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De-Extinction Revival : Extinction, the termination of a particular species, something we expect cannot be reversed. However it seems scientists are already on their way to resurrecting the species we…
An Interview With: DJ Deece
Niall D’Arcy is probably the first name down on the team sheet for any Irish festival promoter. Better known as DJ Deece, he’s been a mainstay on the summer circuit…
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Opera Briefs: The Royal Irish Academy of Music and the Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art are collaborating to bring two operas to the Abbey Theatre. The operas have a…
The Beginners Guide to East Coast Hip Hop
Now that hip hop is experiencing soaring popularity in the mainstream, it is interesting to explore how the genre evolved overtime. After gangsta rap with its provocative lyrics, emerged on…
Wes Anderson: Hollywood’s Favourite Hipster
Wes Anderson is Hollywood’s favourite hipster. He is, perhaps, the only unconventionally stylistic director of this century to be accepted into the mainstream and not yet be corrupted by it.…
Film In Review: Black Panther
Marvel’s latest (if it is even the latest, I struggle to keep up with the sheer volume of movies they produce) has been smashing box office records since its release,…
Electric Picnic 2018: The Line Up
When the line-up for Longitude was announced last month, it was so shockingly fantastic that all hopes of the EP line-up being in the same stratosphere were abandoned. EP has…
Album In Review: Roc Marciano – RR2: The Bitter Dose
This is Roc Marciano’s 2nd album in 2 years – a feverous pace by his standards. Roc is aware of the rarity of the situation because, until this weekend, RR2…
5 Songs That Will Launch You Into Springtime
If you’re like me then January and February were rough – pathetic fallacy is real and dangerous, folks. Even the double reading week is a bit of a curse when…
In The Loop
What Have the Pythons Ever Done for Us? Starting on April Fools day and continuing through to May, Dublin and Galway will see a celebration of the works of the…
100 Years of Claude Debussy
It is perhaps one of the most recognised pieces of classical music along with the likes of Edvard Grieg’s Peer Cynt Suite No.1 ‘Morning Mood’ and Frederic Chopin’s Nocturnes, but…