Fandom as a Character Trait: The Hidden Genius of Sharp Objects
The first image in the opening credits for Sharp Objects, the recent HBO miniseries starring Amy Adams, is a needle on an LP. Anyone…
Music
The Therapeutic Power of Music
We all know that dopamine rush we get when listening to our favourite song. While music often evokes emotions, it can also stimulate multiple…
Album In Review: Little Dark Age – MGMT
MGMT’s latest record Little Dark Age has been received almost universally well, signalling a return to pop music after two albums that passed well…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Album In Review: In A Poem Unlimited – U.S. Girls
Meg Remy’s U.S. Girls project has been a cathartic vehicle for performer and listener alike since her first album over 10 years ago. Lyrically,…
Choice Music Prize Preview
The thirteenth renewal of the Choice Music Prize takes place at Vicar Street on March 8. Across the ten nominees for Album of the…
The Dark Side of the Moon: 45 Years On
Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of The Moon has successfully gone down in history as one of the greatest albums of all time. It…