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• Daily Digest
• June 29, 2012, 17:04

Charlize Theron, bald. Every female actor has to shave their head for a role eventually. Buzzfeed and plagiarism. John Travolta’s “hair” is getting ridiculous. M83 are scoring ‘Oblivion’. That’s Joseph Kosinski’s movie starring Tom Cruise. Here’s an example of awful …

• art music
• June 29, 2012, 11:05

Damien Hirst says the band is more important than Picasso. I’d say John Squire is happy with that comparison, although might have have preferred “more important than Pollock”.  

• Uncategorized
• June 29, 2012, 10:48

You may have noticed during the week that there’s something going on with cops, both from here and abroad. This week, 130 LGBT police met in Dublin for the annual European Gay Police Association conference, an agenda which included a …

• music
• June 29, 2012, 10:03

Check out this new Irish music podcast, and there will be a new one on the last Friday of every month.  

• film
• June 29, 2012, 09:53

The death of the brilliant Nora Ephron this week has sparked a wave of appreciation for her writing, humour, sparky feminism and one-liners. Donald Clarke remembers her career and some of her best observations such as “The whole purpose of …

• Daily Digest
• June 28, 2012, 17:47

The Olsen twins have designed a gross new bag. Don’t show it to Clint Eastwood’s daughter. Gatsbabies? Obamacare survives. 7 games you’ve never heard of that changed everything. Photos of Twitter’s new San Francisco HQ. How to seal a bag …

• celebrity
• June 28, 2012, 14:23

It’s funny how lip tattoos have become so common. They truly are the new tongue piercings. Via Ke$ha’s Instagram and Dlisted

• PopLives
• June 28, 2012, 10:49

Every week this Q&A will find out what various heads in music, film, fashion, theatre, bukes, performance, tech stuff, and whatever else are consuming. Ben Frow is TV3’s Director of Programming. Photo. Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland What are you reading? The …

• music video
• June 28, 2012, 10:33

Here’s an interview with A$AP Rocky about the vid.

• Daily Digest
• June 26, 2012, 17:52

Great piece on Irish radio docs. Facebook’s find friends nearby feature. Basically Facebook plus Grindr minus sex. Sorkinisms supercut: RTE are doing a Come Party With Me programme. Vivienne Westwood menswear SS13. The dark world of celebrity DJs. Pixar isn’t …

• festivals music
• June 26, 2012, 17:33

Hard Working Class Heroes has spent a decade in Dublin bringing the best new independent music to fans, and allowing the music industry TO DESCEND LIKE VULTURES AND STEAL ALL THE TALENT. Not really, but it’s an amazing showcase for …

• music
• June 26, 2012, 17:25

Watch it here.

• art tech
• June 26, 2012, 17:17

Last Thursday saw the launch of Hack The City, the latest exhibition from Dublin’s Science Gallery, which expands beyond the Science Gallery’s Trinity base across the city. David O’Dwyer has written about the Capel Street Idealab, and the exhibition will also host …

• music
• June 26, 2012, 17:00

Geri Halliwell’s accent is just amazing. And Jennifer Saunders has written the musical.

• festivals
• June 26, 2012, 10:08

Now that the mud has settled, it’s time to examine why Body & Soul worked. Although this was my first year at the festival, two and three timers were saying all weekend that this was the year it had taken …

• Daily Digest
• June 25, 2012, 17:12

Two new Blur songs on the way. From a rooftop. When will bands stop playing on rooftops? Celebrity coming out fears. How to get under Aaron Sorkin’s skin. Pockets remix of Ham Sandwich’s ‘Long Distance’. Saudi Arabia will ‘let’ a …

• video
• June 25, 2012, 15:36

As someone said on Twitter, the Spinal Tap of DJ sets.

• celebrity
• June 22, 2012, 14:26

Aaron Sorkin and Kristin Davis are in a relationship.

• film
• June 22, 2012, 10:18

No pressure. Somewhere the trailer for Les Mis is dusting off an Anna voodoo doll.

• film
• June 21, 2012, 17:49

10 years ago today, Minority Report was released in the US. I’m obsessed with Minority Report. In my opinion, it’s one of the most incredible films of the past thirty years. Not because of Samantha Morton being in a weird jacuzzi, or …

• Daily Digest
• June 21, 2012, 16:47

14 super-nerdy turntables. The Fall Of The Creative Class (thanks @finianmurphy) Fiona Apple is back, everything is ok. Deadmau5 on the cover of the Rolling Stone. A review of Sorkin’s The Newsroom. Katy Perry is launching her own record label …

• TV
• June 21, 2012, 11:11

Interviewed Armando Iannucci the other week. Lovely chap. You can read the interview here. I think you’d be pretty hard pressed to find a TV writer as busy as him right now. The first series of Veep has gone down well. The …

• PopLives
• June 21, 2012, 09:51

Every week this Q&A will find out what various heads in music, film, fashion, theatre, bukes, performance, tech stuff, and whatever else are consuming.  Michael McDermott is the publisher of Le Cool. photo by Eoin Kirwan What are you reading? …

• Daily Digest
• June 20, 2012, 15:10

Sharon Osbourne talks rather upsettingly about her son Jack being diagnosed with MS. The opening scene from Bladerunner in watercolour. The absurdity of UEFA’s fining system. Are Wham! really reforming? Come Rhyme With Me, a spoken word thing I do …

• music
• June 20, 2012, 12:09

New vid for one of the best tunes on the excellent ‘Little Sparks’  

• festivals
• June 20, 2012, 11:18

When the reviews of Irish festivals were being compiled in 2011, the best feedback probably came from this little guy in Ballinlough Castle, Co Westmeath. I missed it last year, so was determined to get to it this summer. I’ve …

• film
• June 20, 2012, 10:29

I love how the music in this trailer echoes the breathing sounds from Bane. But, Does it bring us any closer to the real question of whether this is the film where Batman dies? If Bane was the dude who …

• celebrity video
• June 19, 2012, 12:18

Cute? Creepy? Epic? Odd? Either way, it’s The Gos in a whole new light, with trousers even Simon Cowell might think are a little too high-waisted. The video is from a 1991 Mormon talent contest.   (via dlisted)

• music video
• June 19, 2012, 11:51

Last month, Synth Eastwood held a launch party in the Sugar Club for this release with I Am The Cosmos and Ships. Here’s a video of those proceedings:    

• video
• June 19, 2012, 09:19

• music video
• June 18, 2012, 16:58

The much anticipated video from Ms Banks landed a few days ago, and like most things highly anticipated (and directed by Rankin) it’s a bit of a shambles, although as much a jittery collage as her music is. If you …

• music
• June 18, 2012, 16:40

Check it out.

• politics
• June 18, 2012, 16:37

Seriously.

• celebrity music
• June 18, 2012, 16:33

It wasn’t just the two rappers who were caught up in the brawl. The Game has intervened. You know you’re in trouble when The Game is acting as a mediator. Elsewhere people are wondering if the scrap was about Rihanna …

• Daily Digest
• June 18, 2012, 09:56

Uncropped versions of iconic photos. Tavi’s Dad on what he has learned from the success of his daughters. How great are these pieces at the Art of Movement exhibition at Corey Helford in California? As part of Autostraddle’s history series …

• Uncategorized
• June 18, 2012, 08:19

The Obsessor is a weekly look at something or someone I’m obsessing over. And a load of links and other time-wasting things to hopefully fuel your obsession too. Fell into a Nina Conti vortex yesterday. Anyone who hangs out with …

• music TV video
• June 15, 2012, 08:31

• Uncategorized
• June 14, 2012, 14:51

2007 interview with Henry Hill. Burger King’s new bacon sundae. Ah, here. Why women have no opinions, or at least less than men in the op-ed stakes. In 1986, Apple had a clothing line. Behold. It’s like a bunch of …

• PopLives
• June 14, 2012, 11:29

Every week this Q&A will find out what various heads in music, film, fashion, theatre, bukes, performance, tech stuff, and whatever else are consuming.  Sinead O’Connor is a singer, musician and songwriter. Her latest critically acclaimed album How About I …

• film skating video
• June 14, 2012, 10:31

Beautiful new film from skateboarder Kilian Martin, someone who is really pushing the form of skating forward with an almost choreographed style, and awesome manuals that evoke Rodney Mullen. Mercedes-Benz hooked up with him to make this film, and he …

• celebrity
• June 14, 2012, 10:11

Insert ‘Fool Again’ joke here.

• Daily Digest
• June 13, 2012, 15:38

Interesting piece on Lara Croft and why and how her makers made her vulnerable. Watch The Throne,  the New Black Power, and Jay-Z and Kanye as rich revolutionaries. This looks fun, Sigourney Weaver starring as a pseudo Hillary Clinton in ‘Political Animals’ …

• fashion
• June 13, 2012, 14:16

There, I said it. The elephant in the gift wrapping room. No matter how many tweeted pictures of his ‘n’ hers Air Yeezys get shared, or talk of the confusion surrounding one pair that ended up on eBay for $90,000 …

• music
• June 13, 2012, 11:21

Sorry for that crap pun, but yes, there’s a new Bat For Lashes on the horizon called ‘The Haunted Man’ on October 15th. Bat For Lashes plays Electric Picnic this September. Will the new record be a Dickensian Tale? Back …

• music
• June 12, 2012, 20:08

If you ever wanted an x-rated version of Beavis and Butthead sitting on some steps somewhere talking about women, drugs, and the music industry with an injection of cocktail-infused surrealism, then you should probably be paying attention to these video …

• film
• June 12, 2012, 14:20

Sony are making a film about Tonka trucks. Yes, Tonka trucks. Sony is teaming up with Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions to make the film. You’d think Battleship would have scared everyone off making features about toys that don’t actually have …

• Daily Digest
• June 12, 2012, 12:07

Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux look quite cool in this photo, walking around Paris, pouting, wearing aviators, etc.  (via wenn.com/ Bauer Griffin/ Dlisted) Oh, Lindsay. Can Google predict the impact of racism on the US presidential election? Using Blink 182 lyrics as …

• TV
• June 12, 2012, 11:30

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is apparently, bizarrely (or not, depending how obsessed you were/are with Angel, Willow and co) the piece of pop culture property studied by academics more than anything else. This is according to a study by Slate, who collated loads …

• film
• June 12, 2012, 09:53

The most anticipated music doc of the year still hasn’t got an Irish release date, although on July 18th, it’s hitting US cinemas for one night only. Here’s a new clip:  

• film
• June 11, 2012, 16:07

Safety Not Guaranteed looks like a fun new indie flick with time travel as its subject in a round about way. The film takes its inspiration from this classified ad, originally printed in 1997, but one that blew up online …

• celebrity
• June 11, 2012, 12:32

TMZ has a clip from yesterday’s Oprah interview with Paris Jackson, Michael Jackon’s daughter. Nice couch, amazing eyes. In the clip, Jackson talks about being a victim of cyber bullying and kids in her school (she’s no longer home-schooled) saying things …

• Daily Digest
• June 11, 2012, 10:18

On Friday at a gig, I turned to a mate and said “I feel like we’re in the future.” It was the O2, it was Watch The Throne, it was Jay-Z and Kanye standing on giant rising LED cubes, with …

• music industry
• June 8, 2012, 15:41

Bands must hate it when this happens. (via @Elastic_Witch)    Check out Elastic Witch’s Tumblr. It’s my favourite record store in Dublin.

• music industry
• June 8, 2012, 14:11

We had the Muse album trailer earlier in the week, The Antlers have previewed something called Undersea, The Killers trailered ‘Battle Born’ yesterday, Die Antwoord put one out in January and then made the video private, and on the day ‘Watch …

• art
• June 8, 2012, 10:43

• art
• June 7, 2012, 19:21

Dublin artist Aine Macken has been running a new-school series of art lessons called Art Clash recently. I haven’t made it down to any yet, but considering the nights have started to sell out at an increasing pace, there’s clearly something going …

• PopLives
• June 7, 2012, 12:00

Every week this Q&A will find out what various heads in music, film, fashion, theatre, bukes, performance, tech stuff, and whatever else are consuming.  Shane Langan is a writer/performer with Dublin comedy team Diet of Worms and co-curator of the …

• Daily Digest
• June 7, 2012, 10:42

What the Nicki Minaj V Hot 97 feud says about women in hip-hop. If you don’t know what this is about, here’s some context. Nasdaq offering $40 million compensation for the glitches on the first day of the Facebook IPO. …

• music
• June 6, 2012, 16:53

Guitar effects that now in the cold light of brostep sound Skrillexy? Check. Pseudo-political undertones? Check. Lots of references to energy and sustainability? Check. Tapping into the state of the universe via financial meltdown-related drum freakouts? Check. Vague post-apocalyptic context? …

• music industry
• June 6, 2012, 15:31

One of the finest independent labels in the land has announced that it will be wound up by the end of this year. The Richter Collective, which released records by Adebisi Shank, And So I Watch You From Afar, Not …

• internetz
• June 6, 2012, 12:53

It’s been hard to avoid the increasing number of negative Facebook stories in recent months. The company’s less than successful IPO obviously colours a lot of the press at the moment, but there has been a steady stream of stories …

• TV video
• June 6, 2012, 10:39

“It’s a family friendly show.” The folks at Funny or Die have done it again. And David Simon digs it.

• Uncategorized
• June 6, 2012, 08:17

(via @orlatinsley)

• Uncategorized
• June 5, 2012, 18:27

So this is a tattoo Kate Moss’ husband Jamie Hince has in her honour, published over on Terry Richardson’s blog. There have to be better Kate Moss tattoos than that, right? How about this portrait that is meant to be …

• film
• June 5, 2012, 17:56

I like films about films, which is a preference that probably goes back to hours of sitting in front of MTV watching ‘Making Ofs’ of generic music videos. Stuff like Hearts Of Darkness (about Apocalypse Now) or the fantastic Best Worst Movie (about …

• internetz
• June 5, 2012, 17:08

There’s a great piece in New York Magazine on Sabu, the LulzSec hacker turned FBI informant.

• business
• June 5, 2012, 15:11

• Daily Digest
• June 5, 2012, 10:39

And after that Bank Holiday recap, here’s your Daily Digest: A rather incredible story about unemployed people bussed in to central London to steward the river pageant. Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor. The Dark Knight Rises is two hours and …

• art Daily Digest festivals gigs ireland music photography
• June 5, 2012, 10:05

All aboard the Tuesday morning train to bank holiday weekend recovery. Let’s start with the weird coincidence of the Shanghai Composite Index falling 64.89 points on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. For a few hundred thousand people in …

• music
• June 1, 2012, 17:48

And it’s out in Ireland on September 7th. It’ll be out in the UK and elsewhere on the 10th, and the US on the 11th. The band sez: “We’re so excited to share with you the news that our second record …

• books film
• June 1, 2012, 17:30

This summer, two films tackle two sacred cows of literature, Baz Luhrman’s Watch The Throne-soundtracked The Great Gatsby and Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) with Francis Ford Coppola’s take on Kerouac’s On The Road. Both directors’ styles probably give a good indication of …

• music video
• June 1, 2012, 16:04

The artist formerly known as Lecs Luther just dropped this animated video and tune.

• TV
• June 1, 2012, 11:10

Laa-Laa speaks! Nikky Smedley who played Laa-Laa weighs in on that ridiculous argument in an interview with the Birmingham Mail. Reading what she’s saying now kind of makes the whole debacle over whether the Telletubbies were going to actually have …

• film
• June 1, 2012, 10:23

One of the most highly anticipated films of the summer has got to be amazing, right? RIGHT? Well, no, not really. But, but, but it’s Ridley Scott, and it’s got Michael Fassbender (now is not a good time to mention …