Christine and the Queens’ sophomore album entitled Chris, is a fantastic listen from beginning to end. It features two sides in an English language version and a French-language version including 23-tracks. After a long-awaited return in…

Each November, thousands of music fans from all over the world flock to Reykjavik for the city’s annual gathering, Iceland Airwaves. It’s a four-day festival which this year attracted over 8,500 attendees. Notable headliners over the years…

In absolutely every aspect, the public sector has been severely affected by COVID-19. Unemployment is reaching heights unseen in years and the anxiety filling the atmosphere is smothering us all. No market or sector is safe, and the music…

NO ENCORE returns to set the music world to rights. There's a birthday, a guest co-host, arguably too much football chatter for a music podcast, and the new album from Deafheaven up for review so let's get right to it... ACT ONE:…

It’s taken over a month but I think I’m finally over Body & Soul. I’m hankering to get back into the festival bubble and the preparation for Electric Picnic 2017 is well underway. This will be my third successive year to head down to…

We're just past the halfway point of the year (only five months till Christmas, how grim is that?) and it's been so front-loaded that there's arguably been too much good music released between January and June (which is the timeframe where…

The debut album is a statement of artistic creativity, intended to launch a musician's career proper. Not all hit the ground running, however. Even the most important bands in history don't always deliver great debuts. The Beatles debut…

Tobe Hooper. Wes Craven. Sean S. Cunningham. Dario Argento. Horror cinema has many famous directors, auteurs if you want to be posh about it, but few are considered as varied and frightening as John Carpenter. Carpenter has directed…

NEWS A few news items this week, UCD announced the selected artists for their annual residency, a residency focused on artists who work with scientific aspects in their work. Green on Red Gallery is reopening this week after a short hiatus…