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…
‘Colour Is Life’ Exhibition at the National Gallery
Emil Nolde was one of the first artists of the expressionist movement and member of the original expressionist groups. Born 7th August 1867 in Nolde, Denmark, he came from a…
In The Loop
Romeo and Juliet at the Helix : The Royal Moscow ballet are bringing their production of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Romeo and Juliet to the Helix on Saturday the 10th March.This…
The State of Play for Irish Nightlife
Punters arrive in from the dark, cold January evening outside, arriving to be greeted by faces of friends made in the old Pod or the famous Twisted Pepper. Many cradle…
The Mechanics of Voting in the Oscars
Who votes? The Oscars are voted for by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. As of 2018, the Academy has over 6,600 members. Each member belongs to a…