State Magazine

23/01/2020

Wondering why CHERYM look so happy? Because they're one of our State Faces of 2020. We loved bringing you new music so much that we couldn't resist getting the band back together for a selection of incredible artists, music and original photography. Ireland, we've missed you. https://statefaces.com/

06/03/2019

04/03/2019

Awful news. RIP Keith.

RIP Keith Flint of The Prodigy 1969-2019

03/01/2019

If anybody sees this little beauty in the north Dublin region please get in touch

Drumcondra, Dublin

14/08/2018

This is so good

04/05/2018

Dublin. This weekend. VINYL Dublin at Royal Hospital, Kilmainham looks splendid.

18/04/2018

This is pretty special.

06/03/2018

Thanks for the past ten years everyone. We're off now.

The date is March 2008 and the launch of State.ie, soon to be followed by our print magazine, and both followed by 10 years of fun, adventure, really great people and so, SO much great music that a…

05/03/2018

The start of the great State adventure, ten years ago. Print suited us.

Ireland's music payload

04/03/2018

Staying up for the ? Dig into the finest films of State's lifetime first. 10 Years, 10 masterpieces of modern cinema.

A decade later, it’s interesting to look back on 2008, something of a banner year for studios and independent filmmakers (as well as for Irish music magazines, of course), and to see the fruit born…

02/03/2018

This Saturday, this Saturday. This Saturday.

01/03/2018

In case you missed it, here's the top 25 albums of our ten year existence, as voted for by State writers old and new:

1. And So I Watch You From Afar - And So I Watch You From Afar
2. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. Villagers – Becoming A Jackal
4. David Bowie – Blackstar
5. My Bloody Valentine – MBV
6. jape – Ritual
7. Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie
8. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
9. Rusangano Family – Let the Dead Bury the Dead
10. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
11. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
12. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
13. Lisa Hannigan – See Saw
14. Portishead – Third
15. Lankum – Between The Earth And The Sky
16. The Gloaming – The Gloaming
17. David Holmes – The Holy Pictures
18. Radiohead – King Of Limbs
19. The Gloaming – 2
20. Hozier – Hozier
21. The xx – xx
22. katie kim – Salt
23. Messiah J and the Expert – From the Word Go
24. Jamie xx – In Colour
25. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell

Find the full top 50 on State.ie now....