Music
Kero Kero Bonito make their Irish debut at Whelan’s
KKB as a band prioritised fun and enjoyment over the mystique of performing and this fits their style perfectly. Read more…
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Books
The universal and timeless appeal of Sherlock Holmes
There is a very simple reason why the brilliant detective consistently returns to our screens, particularly in the last 10 years. Money. Read more…
The Hype
Thy Name is Woman, Ruth Negga stars as Hamlet in The Gate Theatre
“it is vital for Hamlet’s character to be vulnerable and therefore the actor who plays him must be able to show their emotions” Read more…
Music
“We’ll Go to a Hidden Place” – A Bjӧrk Retrospective
It’s follow-up Post, released in 1995, built upon the sound of Debut, embellishing the dance-pop production with harsher electronics and beats, and bringing to listeners a more angry, passionate, and more powerful Bjӧrk, one that would further flourish as her career continued. Read more…
Television
Will Black Mirror’s choose-your-own-adventure episode create a trend?
The concept of ‘choose your own adventure’ has been tried and tested for years in video games and has found to be very successful. Generally referred to as roleplaying games or RPGs, players are taken on a journey from building their own character to choosing how they handle difficult situations and how their decisions ultimately change their character’s fate. Read more…
Film
Lady Gaga soars in A Star is Born
What truly elevates ASIB compared to its modern rivals is surprisingly simple. They casted people who could actually sing. Read more…
Television
Sierra Burgess is a Loser vs Insatiable – who does body positivity better?
Insatiable’s message is that even if you outwardly ‘fix’ your problems, in this case, by becoming skinny, everything under the surface still remains. Read more…
Television
South Park’s season premiere critique’s artificially “woke”
Cartman is a parody of the typical ‘Woke’ individual. He engages in insincere virtue signalling to prove that he is not a racist, despite having not said anything racist. Paradoxically, his reduces Token to his race identity by assuming that all black people think collectively. Read more…
Music
Lil Wayne returns with Tha Carter V
The redemption from this is undeniable though as Wayne drops Uproar, a diss track fuelled with a fiery passion. Sampling the beat from ‘Special Delivery’ by G-Dep, Wayne tells his enemies to beware of him. Many are speculating that the biggest enemy in question is Birdman, CEO of Cash Money records with whom Wayne had the legal battle. Read more…
The Hype
A visit to Roderic O’Conor and The Moderns
Similarly, one can see how O’Conor begins to discard the styles of Impressionism. Instead, he focuses on the emotions that pervade a painting and how that can change its direction. Within this room, we can see when O’Conor truly embarks into Post-impressionism territory alongside Gauguin. Read more…
Books
Matt Haig’s Reasons to Stay Alive inspires hope
(He) hammers home the point that depression and anxiety do not pick and choose who to affect. Being rich or successful is not an immunity against mental health problems. Read more…
Film
Review: A Simple Favour
The film is reminiscent of the thriller “Gone Girl” and has enough to fill viewers expectations. Emily won’t answer Stephanie’s calls or text messages so Stephanie takes to her blog to begin investigating Emily’s sudden disappearance. Read more…
The Hype
The podcast according to Blindboy
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s part of the Dublin Podcast Festival 2018, Blindboy Boatclub from the Rubberbandits performed at Vicar’s Street. The Blindboy Podcast has gained a large listenership since it launched in October 2017, so much so that Read more…
The Hype
Shows like Bojack Horsemen depict the truth about depression
With shows depicting mental illness it can oftentimes be a double-edged sword of sorts, it seems that these shows either address the issue of mental health very successfully or miss the mark completely.
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Television
What reality shows have the X Factor?
There is one tanned and collagen filled outlier known as Love Island, which dominated the last couple of summers, consistently smashing ITV2 rating records. Read more…
Film
Black 47 is the Irish action movie we’ve been waiting for
We root for our murderous hero throughout the movie as his actions are on the side of justice. Read more…
Style
When two worlds collide: art and commercial fashion
If done right, collaborations such as the Vans x Van Gogh Museu can provide a new level of cultural dignity for fashion brands while also allowing great artistic works to reach a wider audience within popular culture. Read more…
The Hype
The problem with authors meddling with their finished works
The beauty of the arts is that it allows its audience to interpret concepts in whatever manner they wish to. It inspires creativity, what happens after the story ends is up to the reader to imagine. By telling a story, you are allowing others to interpret it in whichever way they wish to Read more…
The Hype
Atelier des Lumières lights up the art scene
When the light flashes and suddenly all paintings have diminished, the audience is met with the stark reminder that they have been walking around a grey room. The projectors had given the illusion that they had been on an ethereal adventure. Read more…
Articles
The rise and fall and rise again of musical film
Modern Western musical theatre emerged during the 19th century, but ground breaking
works such as Oklahoma! didn’t appear until the 20th Century. Some of the most famous
musicals throughout the decades that followed include West Side Story, Les Misérables, The
Phantom of the Opera and Wicked. Read more…
The Hype
Exploring the world of Instagram poetry
This generations ‘instapoets’ are a breath of fresh air for an artform that seemed to be dying. Many young people can no longer relate to the heavy poetry of the likes of John Keats of whom they may have studied laboriously throughout their secondary school education. Read more…
Music
A look into Hozier’s latest EP, Nina Cried Power
The grammy nominee isn’t one to shy away from sharing his political and cultural views, especially in his recent EP. In the song “Nina Cried Power”, the track draws on protest music from the American civil rights movement. Read more…
Music
Tebi Rex’s Max Zanga talks about songwriting, the Irish hip-hop scene and more
“There’s a juxtaposition to our work, we have an idea, go off on our own and come back with completely different angles.” He says, “It leads to an interesting contrast where the music is really upbeat and energetic but then the lyrics are super grim”. Read more…
Music
Arctic Monkeys storm the 3 Arena
Each song was intertwined brilliantly with the one that came before it, carrying a smooth transition from either an energetic hit, to a calmer sound. Kicking off with ‘Star Treatment’, the expertise and professionalism of the band shone. Read more…
Music
Ross from Friends takes a break at the Button Factory
The style of music he creates can be compared to that of other artists such as DJ Seinfield and DJ Boring who seem almost reflective of the 90’s pop culture that these artists would have grown up listening to. Read more…