Katie Kim – Salt
Katie Kim's fourth LP Salt is "a fairly staggering leap forward" says Dudley
Music Reviews
Rebellion Festival 2016
Niall McGuirk's epic roundup of his annual punk rock pilgrimage to Blackpool's Rebellion Festival
Arbor Labor Union – I Hear You
"When I play the songs I forget about all this" - Niall McGuirk on Arbor Labor Union's Sub Pop debut I Hear You
New Releases
Videos
No Monster Club – Do The Mess Around
Do The Mess Around is taken from the new No Monster Club 4 track 7" Where Did You Get That Milkshake?BONUS - Hippocampus Circus Maximu... Read More...
Loner Deluxe – Moon Dunes
Here's the Tiny Epics produced video for Moon Dunes taken from Loner Deluxe's new cassingle, Long Shore Drift
No Monster Club – I’ve Retired
No Monster Club's I've Retired is a video two years in the making, filmed in "Whelan's, BelloBar, Birthdays, Knockanstockan, Roisin Dubh, Sweeney's, The R.A.G.E., The Pop Inn, The Academy, Castlepalooza, Pine Lodge, The Ashdale Living Room, The Button Factory & Connolly's of Leap"
Events
We Shall Overcome 2016
This year's Hope Collective & State Magazine We Shall Overcome events take place on 8th & 9th October
It’ll be LOW-nely this Christmas
It'll be LOW-nely this Christmas - It's a Christmas miracle as Low announce three December Irish gigs
Áine O’Dwyer: A Pipe Organ Performance – Unitarian Church, September 17th
Áine O'Dwyer has announced a special pipe organ performance at The Unitarian Church later this month
Lingo – Sage Francis, Rafeef Ziadah, Blindboy Boatclub – October 21st-23rd
Sage Francis, Blindboy Boatclub and Rafeef Ziadeh are the first names to be announced for this year's Lingo spoken word festival
The Redneck Manifesto to play Clonakilty International Guitar Festival
The Redneck Manifesto will play their only gig of 2016 in Clonakilty on September 18th
Hard Working Class Heroes 2016 Lineup Announced
The list of bands and artists participating in this year's Hard Working Class Heroes festival has been announced
Movie Reviews
Swiss Army Man
’Yes, this is the film where Harry Potter plays a farting corpse’ - MacDara Conroy on Swiss Army Man
Deepwater Horizon
For Deepwater Horizon "it's the explosion that’s the star in this very American of movies" says Dara Higgins
The Magnificent Seven
‘For once we have a remake that definitively trumps its predecessor’ - MacDara Conroy on the 2016 version of The Magnificent Seven
The Girl with All the Gifts
Zombie drama The Girl with All the Gifts follows the exploits of a most dysfunctional family, says MacDara Conroy
Recent
Swiss Army Man
’Yes, this is the film where Harry Potter plays a farting corpse’ - MacDara Conroy on Swiss Army Man
Deepwater Horizon
For Deepwater Horizon "it's the explosion that’s the star in this very American of movies" says Dara Higgins
Thumped Album Club Week 33: The The – Soul Mining (1983)
Week 33 of Thumped Album Club features The The's 1983 debut, Soul Mining
No Monster Club – Do The Mess Around
Do The Mess Around is taken from the new No Monster Club 4 track 7" Where Did You Get That Milkshake?BONUS - Hippocampus Circus Maximus is also from the 7... Read More...
We Shall Overcome 2016
This year's Hope Collective & State Magazine We Shall Overcome events take place on 8th & 9th October
The Magnificent Seven
‘For once we have a remake that definitively trumps its predecessor’ - MacDara Conroy on the 2016 version of The Magnificent Seven
Shrug Life – Your Body
Released just in time for the March For Choice, Shrug Life's new single Your Body is 'a song about bodily autonomy, or the lack thereof'Shrug Life today rel... Read More...
The Girl with All the Gifts
Zombie drama The Girl with All the Gifts follows the exploits of a most dysfunctional family, says MacDara Conroy
Thumped Album Club Week 32: Fleetwood Mac – Rumours (1977)
Week 32 of Album Club is a little-known Fleetwood Mac LP from 1977, Rumours
The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years
There’s a natural limit to how revelatory things can get in Ron Howard’s Beatles documentary Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years, writes MacDara Conroy