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Marley
Director: Kevin McDonald
Cast: Bob Marley, Rita Marley, Ziggy Marley, Cedella Marley, Cindy Breakspeare
Certificate: PG-13
Running Time: 144 minutes…
The story of Bob Marley’s rise and sudden death is one that should have been told long before now. A character so divisive, it’s telling that it’s taken almost four years and three different directors
Camden Crawl Dublin interview: Kwes
Let’s get one thing clear; London boy-genius Kwes aint no slouch. Yes he may have taken his own sweet time to release a new EP (almost two years to be exact) but he’s not been sitting around in his under-crackers watching ‘This Morning’, he’s been rather busy producing the likes of Dels, Speech Debelle and…
Liz Lawrence – I’d Rather (State video exclusive)
Liz Lawrence has spent a lot of time in Ireland of late, the UK singer songwriter choosing to launch her fine Bedroom Hero… album here. State took the opportunity to put her together with Andrew Jordan for a version of ‘I’d Rather’ down by the Grand Canal in Dublin.
Marvel Avengers Assemble
Director: Joss Whedon
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson
Certificate: 12A
Running Time: 135 mins…
It’s no secret that comic books are all about payoff. There’s a fairly standard formula to the medium; Establish a flimsy conflict and stakes as quickly as possible, then let the shit hit the fan. The
Logikparty – Oh Cult!
The terrifying dilapidated killer zombie has chased the nice, pretty girl through the dimly-lit corridors. But he has her cornered in a small room. There’s a scuffle. And just as he’s about to gorge on her flesh, she reaches for a nearby crowbar and rams it through the zombie’s skull. The zombie collapses to the…
The Lemonheads – Dublin
Samantha Brick, you think you’ve got it bad eh? PAH. Try being Evan Dando. This is a man that has spent the past 20 years being vilified for being ridiculously good looking. At the time of grunge, self loathing and skag, the music press balked at the idea that any kind of angst could lie…
Camden Crawl Dublin interview: Mystery Jets
It’s been quite a year for Mystery Jets. Having moved to Austin to record their fourth studio album last October, they returned to the UK earlier this year with the realisation that bassist Kai Fish had taken more than a step back from the band (he was later to depart). Over the past seven years…
Incoming: Fujiya & Miyagi
Brighton’s Fujiya & Miyagi return to Ireland this weekend for shows at The Village in Dublin (Friday) and Black Box in Belfast (Saturday), both in support of their fourth album Ventriloquizzing. The band’s David Best undertakes the State quizzing.
Who are you and where are you from?…
My name is David Best from the
Album premiere: Drunken Boat – Tied In Knots
Dublin-based indie-rockers Drunken Boat are set to release their new album later this month. Tied In Knots… is the fourth LP in five years for Drunken Boat. It’s a collection of delicate post/indie rock melodies that grow with tension, swinging between sweet melancholy and heavy pain. Influences of Pavement, Sonic Youth Modest Mouse are evident
Interview: THEESatisfaction – Don’t funk with their groove
AwE naturalE… the debut record from THEESatisfaction is a game-changer. It’s an album indebted to the soulful hip hop of the ’90s; futuristic themes from a feminist stance melting funk and psychedelia with pop melodies and cutting rhymes. It’s a record, not running away from troubles, but embracing them. Killing them with love.
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Watch St. Vincent, Radiohead, Frank Ocean, Azealia Banks, The Weeknd and many more play Coachella 2012
You’ve probably already seen Tupac’s hologram at the Coachella Valley music festival from this weekend (spreading for the first time on two weekends) but entire sets were broadcasted live on Youtube on three channels with about 25 gigs you could watch from your “couchella” every day or night.
For those of you who didn’t have…
Pulp – Radio City Music Hall, New York
The last time Pulp played a gig in New York City, at Hammerstein Ballroom on June 16 1998, (appropriately Bloomsday given erudite frontman Jarvis Cocker’s fondness for noting anniversaries) President Bill Clinton was in the ugly thick of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the FDA had just approved Viagra, and the north and south towers of the…
The Score: contemporary and classical news
“Haydn would have loved Hendrix” is the tagline for this month’s Diversus Guitar Ensemble concert. Some of the most exciting new music around right now is that which embraces pop and rock music as well as the western art music tradition. New perspectives, new arrangements and new takes on music old and new keep contemporary …
Florence & The Machine – MTV Unplugged
On paper, as anyone who attended Florence & The Machine’s Olympia double-header back in 2010 can attest, the prospect of a second live album (following last year’s iTunes only release Live At The Wiltern) from Ms. Welch is a wondrous one. While debut album Lungs… – accompanied as it was by incredible mass exposure
