• Exhibition: Nasty Women Dublin

    August 3, 2017 - By 

    Opening tonight in Dublin’s Pallas Projects & Studios is Nasty Women Dublin. Originating in New York, the fundraising initiative has spread to over 40 destinations globally and is described as: “a global art movement that serves to demonstrate solidarity among artists who identify with being a Nasty Woman in the face of threats to roll back women’s rights, individual rights, and abortion rights. With over forty fundraising art exhibitions taking place around the United States and abroad, Nasty Women Exhibitions also serve to support organisations defending these rights and to be a platform for organisation and resistance.” For this incarnation…

  • Eraser TV – Buzzfeed Depression Quiz

    August 3, 2017 - By 

    Just released is Limerick post-punk noise-pop act Eraser TV‘s debut EP, the wryly-titled Buzzfeed Depression Quiz, that tells you all you need to know about the wry wit of the trio. Featuring zero short, snappy numbers and a nine-minute epic celebration of languor, no compromise has been made on the EP, filled with all the trimmings, creases, and slightly-off guitar lines you’d hope from a band with nothing to lose. Buzzfeed Depression Quiz is a completely unselfconscious release, and is all the better for it. The EP was recorded and produced by Chris Quigley, self-released and available on Bandcamp on a pay-what-you-like basis. Stream below:…

  • Arcade Fire – Everything Now

    August 4, 2017 - By 

    The most troubling time in anyone’s life is adolescence. And often, insecurities born during this time are masked by either acts of defiance or retreat as a way of coming to terms with the transitional phase. It is important then to note that Arcade Fire released their debut, Funeral, 13 years ago. Prior to the release of Everything Now, the fifth studio album from the Canadian band, they engaged in several viral marketing campaigns, each news story or act as incredulous as the last, all garnering substantial media coverage. It began with a fake Twitter profile presented under the guise of…

  • Hounds of Love

    August 2, 2017 - By 

    For his debut feature, Australian film-maker Ben Young returns to his Perth roots, subjecting his hometown to a predator’s gaze. Psychological abduction thriller Hounds of Love opens with a pervs-eye view of teenage girls playing netball, the slow-motion camera tracking bodily curves and the wafting of skirts while a couple watch from their car, and then offer one of the unfortunate girls a lift home. Later in the film, as the depravity of the married kidnappers becomes clearer, a tracking shot line-up of unassuming detached houses frames the buildings as hostile sites, the carefree, slow-mo routines of family life now…

  • Dublin Podcast Festival 2017

    August 2, 2017 - By 

    Presented by HeadStuff and Aiken Promotions, the inaugural Dublin Podcast Festival will bring 10 nights of live podcasts, headliner shows, comedy showcases, discussions and workshops taking place in various citys throughout the city across September 19-29. Featuring a diverse range of international and homegrown podcasters, Criminal, The Memory Palace, Fascinated, My Dad Wrote a Porno, Featuring a diverse range of international and homegrown podcasters covering everything from music, food and literature to comedy, film and crime, Criminal, The Memory Palace, Fascinated, My Dad Wrote a Porno, Scroobius Pip’s Distraction Pieces, Roddy Doyle and No Encore featuring Daithí, Overhead The Albatross and…

  • Festival Mixtape: Indiependence 2017

    August 2, 2017 - By 

    Returning to Deer Farm in Mitchelstown this weekend (August 4-6), the line-up for this year’s Indiependence Music & Arts Festival is arguably their strongest and most eclectic to date. Headlined by Welsh alt-rock masters Manic Street Preachers (pictured), this year’s line-up boasts international names including Tom Odell, Frank Turner and Wild Beasts, as well as some of our favourite Irish acts making their own dent on the big stage at the minute, including Overhead The Albatross, Talos, We Cut Corners, BARQ, Super Silly, Le Boom and Stomptown Brass. With tickets still available to buy here, here’s our annual, 10 track…

  • Playlist: Belfast Music Club – Pride @ The Bear and The Doll

    August 2, 2017 - By 

    Berlin-based, Californian-born producer Daniel Wang will stop off at Belfast’s new-fangled The Bear and The Doll on Saturday night. Presented by and featuring the ever-tasteful folk at Belfast Music Club, it promises to be a night of first-rate disco and boogie from 9pm. Featuring Sylvester, Gwen Guthrie, The Rah Band & more, here’s a 10 track sampler courtesy of Roger Montgomery of BMC to give you a sense of what to expect on the night. Photo by Christopher Martin

  • Video Premiere: Boris – The Power (Live)

    August 2, 2017 - By 

    Japanese experimental rock heroes Boris kick off their 25th Anniversary European tour in Moscow tomorrow night, a twenty-date traipse that concludes at shows in Dublin’s Whelan’s on August 20, Cork’s Cyprus Avenue on August 21, Belfast’s Limelight on August 23, before finishing in Helsinki two nights later. Ahead of what’s set to be a blitzing tour from the low-end merchants, comprised of Atsuo, Takeshi and Wata, we’re pleased to present a first look at a new live video of ‘The Power’, a pummelling, seven-minute, doom-drenched highlight from the band’s new – twenty-third – studio album, Dear. Check that and the band’s full…

  • Aislinn Logan w/ Mark Loughrey @ Town Square, Belfast

    August 1, 2017 - By 

    Playing a stripped-back show in a limited capacity space on what is payday for some (presumably very thirsty) people is often a recipe for disaster. Usually it’s nothing personal: you could be Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell playing a pop-up show to a room full of dyed-in-the-wool aficionados and yet – due to some strange phenomenon that has somewhat corrupted live performance in public spaces since the dawn of time – people will often put loudly catching up above bearing witness to the artist they’ve parted money to be in the company of. Like, say, the Nazca Geoglyphs, the Bermuda Triangle and the…

  • Exhibition: Memorabilia @ Belfast Exposed

    August 15, 2017 - By 

    This week is the last to the Memorabilia exhibition in Belfast Exposed – closing this Saturday August 19th. Gábor Arion Kudász, son of Hungarian artist Emese Kudász, began photographing and documenting his mother’s archive in the years that followed her death in 2010. Gábor’s cataloguing of his mother’s work threw up a interesting observation – is the coherence between objects one that existed prior to his undertaking of the task? Or is it one generated through the creation of an archive? What is for certain is the context these works were created in is separate to the context they are placed under when…