It may be nothing but a car park now, but the nondescript white building on Middle Abbey Street on Dublin’s north side was once Ireland’s premier art deco movie and live music palace. It was a place abuzz with glamour and entertainment – and, on one particular night, the scene of riots, mania, and a […]
The Five Strangest Stories From Musicophilia
The combined worlds of psychology, medicine, science, and music lost a true master last week with the passing of Oliver Sacks. Sacks, perhaps best known for authoring books in which he chronicled the accounts of some of his most interesting and inspiring patients, was particularly taken with music, using it in his personal recuperation methods […]
Morals and Music: Where Do You Draw the Line?
Last week’s apology by rapper and world famous record producer Dr. Dre to the women in his life he has “hurt” has stirred a hot debate in the music world. Dre issued the expression of remorse publicly when the release of the much-anticipated film Straight Outta Compton, which chronicles the early history of his former […]
Running riot: Dublin band The Riot Tapes fire things up with new single and video. World appropriately sweats.
“Goodbye my faith, goodbye my heart.” Ah, Elaine Doyle, c’mere, would you ever stop being such a fantastic ride? Look at you there, running around the countryside, looking winsome and windswept, not a bother on you as you purr lyrics in perfect time and stare down the sunset like some badass bog Madonna. Well then, […]
Don’t Worry, Buddy Guy. The Blues Ain’t Dead.
Buddy Guy is worried about the blues. The legendary blues guitarist and singer recently sat down with NPR Music and told of his fears that the genre – so deeply entrenched in not just the American, but the international music scene – would die out before too long. Spooked by a conversation with musical peer […]
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