The Rolling Stones- GRRR!
????? The Rolling Stones are back with their greatest hits compilation album GRRR!. The album is out to celebrate fifty years of being general rock gods. Is it a case…
Lana Del Rey- Paradise EP
? ? ??? Lana Del Rey is back with a mixed bag of moodiness and sexiness in the form of Paradise, physician the EP to follow her hit and miss…
ExitMusic – Whelan’s November 10th 2012
Nobody was prepared for what happened in Whelan’s last weekend. Hushed voices and murmured conversations were cut short by the sounds of “The Sea”, the opening track of ExitMusic’s set…
Hellacious Histrionics: Murder on the Nile
Aoife Byrne reviews the latest Agatha Christie production to hit The Gaiety Theatre, prescription Murder on the Nile The Agatha Christie Theatre Company’s Murder on the Nile at The Gaiety…
Retrogaming
Darragh O’Connor provides a blast from the past in his selection of bygone games There are literally hundreds of “retro” video games that are worth playing. People are most familiar…
Video saved the radio star
Lisa Gorry takes a look and a listen at TV/music crossovers There’s a lot to be said for a good soundtrack. How often have you watched a movie and thought…
Triangles Are My Favourite Shape
Kathryn Toolan takes a look at Mercury Prize 2012 winners Alt-J, their winning album and what this means for the band's future On Thursday evening Lauren Laverne gave Alt-J some…
Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra – THEATRE IS EVIL
(8 Ft. Records, 2012) It’s rare anyone these days refers to a group of distinctly rock-flavoured songs as a “great pop record”, let alone such a group released by a…
Taylor Swift – Red
Red is topping both the UK and US charts. Released on October 22nd it is Swift’s fourth studio album, following the success of Speak Now in 2010. Whether you are…
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
In the run up to the American Presidential Election, Ciaran Breslin looks at the increasingly nuanced role of music in politics In the wake of Bruce Springsteen recently releasing a…
First Aid Kit: The Lion’s Roar- Deluxe Edition
If someone were to mention Swedish pop and you first associate the atrocity that is Basshunter with this, treatment then First Aid Kit’s The Lion’s Roar- Deluxe edition is clearly…