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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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Congrats to Glen & Marketa
Hotpress darling Glen Hansard and child bride Marketa Irglova were the recipients last night of the Oscar for ‘Best Original Song’, for ‘Falling Slowly’, a track written for their ‘Swell Season‘ album and featured in John Carney’s slight but touching film ‘Once‘. Congrats guys! ‘Falling Slowly’, from Once.. Acceptance Speech.. ‘Falling Slowly’, performed at the… Read more
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Siding with Kant
“There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.” – Duke Ellington Fantastic rock webzine Crawdaddy! have an interview up with rock critic Carl Wilson, author of the latest book in the legendary 33 1/3 series of album critiques. Rather than reviewing a new or ageing classic, Wilson decided to do something… Read more
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Awesome Juno Song
Whatever your opinion of the movie, this clip of actors Ellen Page and Michael Cera ‘spontaneously’ composing a song in honour of director Jason Reitman is sheer awesomeness. Read more
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Saturday Afternoon Twee
The science fiction writer Larry Niven used to have a rule. Niven used to say (I’m paraphrasing), if you’re going to eat chocolate cake don’t waste those calories on inferior Leon confections, consume only the finest, creamiest, 80% cocoa Belgian sensation. Never waste calories. Niven called his rule his ‘Fuzzy Pink Law’ (after unsurprisingly, his… Read more
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Toxic Friday
It’s Friday, and you know what that means. Absurdly brilliant Brittany Britney Spears cover day. Today we bring you, hit Spears club tune Toxic. Here’s one from Youtube yuke genius sweetafton23. For bonus lolz, pop on over to Pop Culture Will Eat Itself for another Toxic cover, this time from Israeli solider and folk songstress… Read more
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Infomatics Video – Wake Up
Courtesty of Nialler 9, comes the new video from perhaps Ireland’s only decent hip hop act, Dublin’s smart, literate and grimy Infomatics. The boys have had a busy few months, backing up heavyweight acts like Ice-T and Nas, and their self released début album ‘Kill or Create’ is done and due sharpish. Nice one lads!… Read more
