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Superorganism headline show at the Academy

October 31, 2018

The entire gig was painted with flashes of dazzling colour, with band-members emerging from backstage in shiny, sequined cloaks. The background projector lit up with intense visuals, splattered with animations of various animals and objects.

Music

Review: Death Grips at the Academy

October 17, 2016

It’s a long flight of stairs up to the Academy’s main room and on this night, getting close to Samhain, it felt like a liminal space, a passageway between the relative sanity of the street

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Death from Above 1979 @ the Academy

March 11, 2015

Sometimes it’s best not to overthink things. I learned this pretty quickly at the Academy when Death From Above 1979 came to town. How will new album The Physical World stand up live? Can they