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Fury at the homogenisation of Dublin City only grows more intense. It’s increasingly difficult to ignore the old town slowly metamorphosing into a soulless shell, more a commercial district than a city, fewer residents on its streets, no…

Versatile’s debasement of hip-hop should have firebombed the project a long time ago. Their writing is preposterous – a Gatling gun delivery of god-awful one-liners punctuated by moments of extreme racism and misogyny. These attempted jokes…

The question: who gets to call themselves Irish? The disgrace: not everyone born on this island. As our British cousins race to apply for their Irish passports to unlock the benefits of EU citizenship that their body politic seems hell-bent…

Promoting the movie Spring Breakers, Selena Gomez struck down the same question over and over again like a zombie hunter swathing away swarms of the undead. The query came in many forms but the gist was this: what would the Disney Channel…

Paris When It Sizzles was panned when released in 1964 and doesn’t exist in Audrey Hepburn’s diamond-encrusted canon as we know it today. No frame from the movie has been turned into decorative pop art. You probably won’t find a postcard…

How do you define Blur? The band forged their career by stylistically swerving left and right as dueling talents Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon fought for control of the wheel. By 1997 they’d built their fortune on cheeky characters, sticky…

Welcome to THE PLAYLIST, where HeadStuff staff and friends siphon through exciting art to craft essential listening experiences you didn’t know you needed. In this instalment, Dean Van Nguyen wants you to remember Craig David in a whole new…

This planet wasn’t set for Betty Davis. It wasn’t ready in 1969, when she walked into Columbia’s 52nd Street Studios, New York with husband Miles to lay the funky foundations of both their future work. Maybe it’s never been ready. Connect…

Prince, the greatest musical artist to ever walk this planet, has passed away. The temptation when we lose such impossibly outstanding humans is to convince ourselves of their immortality. “He can never truly die.” “He’s one of those people…

YEEZY SEASON continues as hip hop knowledge machine Dean Van Nguyen reappraises the oft-maligned but really very good Graduation. Don those shutter shades and dive in...  Graduation (2007) Curtis Jackson wept. How the burly-voiced…