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Dublin Is Sound was just one of the many fantastic events being held across the country over the weekend to celebrate Record Store Day here in Ireland. An all-ages, alcohol free, midday gig in The Grand Social featuring some of this…

Javier Valez, a.k.a. Versal, has been engrossed in music since the age of three. From then, he developed into a prodigy, mastering several instruments by his mid-teens. At nineteen, he was conducting and arranging choir performances in San…

They say you can tell a lot about a character by what they want. In Unicorn Store, what the protagonist Kit wants is a unicorn she can play checkers with. Let this be an early warning to those of you with a low tolerance for quirk. Unicorn…

Netflix’s latest original film The Silence has a strong air of déjà vu about it.  It's an almost greatest hits collection of the most popular sci-fi horror movies of the last two years, combining the best of their ideas to try to create…

“We decided to not write for radio, not write for a label, not write for anyone but ourselves.” - Aly & AJ in PAPER 'Potential Breakup Song' was huge. It was loud and bombastic. A moment-defining piece of pop music that vaulted American…

Need parenting advice that doesn’t read like you joined a new age cult? Ask Grainne for the unvarnished truth about modern Irish parenting. Dear Grainne, My kids have a better social life than me I just about survived this weekend. It…

Straight after pulling a McConnaughey in True Detective season three, Stephen Dorff leads this Irish drama with a supernatural twist. Best known for straight-to-DVD films, the odd collaboration with an auteur and of course Blade, the actor…

Mortal Kombat is known as much for its longevity and ingenuity as it is for it's cartoonish, mind-boggling violence. Though its initial iterations garnered much controversy - as well as being singlehandedly responsible for the MPAA rating…

“It’s a vocation, something you have to do. You don’t have a choice really. You can’t just shake it off. You’ve just got to make it work because it has to.” This is how Andrew (John Morton), the protagonist of Irish dark comedy/thriller…

For Patrick Ames, his youth was marked with music, diving in deep at 14 when he began writing original songs. This trend continued into his college years and beyond, when he performed in the San Francisco music scene. All this occurred…