Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 3D
Rating: G
Genre: Animation/Family
Voices of: Simon Pegg, Seann William Scott, Joh Leguizamo, Queen Latifah, Denis Leary, Josh Peck

The Junction nightclub (above An Pucan) on Forster Street is the place to be this Friday, 3 July as DJ Lil Monica drops her set of party anthems at Eden. Lil Monica's big break came when she played at Outrageous in 2001. She has since played gigs in the Black Box, the GPO, the Mansion House in Dublin and at Eden parties in Sligo and Bubblelicious in Limerick.

There will be bottom-heavy beats aplenty at the Junction nightclub on Forster Street this Thursday, 2 July, as local dubstep night DubCulture launch their new bi-weekly Thursday Summer Sessions. Fresh from putting together the dubstep tent at Life festival, DubCulture was established in September 2007 and the club has brought the cream of the underground to Galway with live and DJ shows from heavy hitters like N-Type, Rusko, Pinch, Distance and many more.

Wednesday 1 July
Where: Central Park
What: Disco Divas Ladies
Time: 10.45pm

The GPO is all about the music this summer with the launch of GPO Rocks, a live music addition to the already jammed packed entertainment line up. GPO Rocks kicks off with the GPO Battle of the Bands, which will run on Tuesday nights, which will showcase Ireland's up and coming talented bands. The night will also feature a DJ playing the best and newest indie, electro and alternative music.

Before potential applicants start to think about packing their suitcases and heading to London, where the next instalment of the Red bull Music Academy takes place next year, they can begin the adventure right here in Ireland! Fallon & Byrne on Dublin's southside will play host to a very special workshop evening next week where two groundbreaking musical figures, Jape and Daedelus, share their own perspectives on a life lived musically.

The shores of Lough Mask are set for an influx of music fans this summer, when the Moondance Music and Arts Festival hits Petersburg House in Clonbur from Friday 14 to Sunday 16 August. Headliners already announced for the festival include Jape, Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club, Lisa Hannigan and many more.

MUSIC: Sharon Van Etten – 'Because I was in Love' – (Language of Stone)
Don't you just love it when your friends put you on to a new artist/band you've never heard of before and their sound just blows you away. Sharon Van Etten emerges from the hazy song-writing woods and woos us with her haunting, heart-melting vocals that are perfectly accompanied by mellow instrumentation.

Padraic O'Connor talks to Ken Wardrop about his work to date, in particular his debut feature His & Hers, which will be premiered at this year's Galway Film Fleadh Since his graduation from the Irish National Film School in 2004, Ken Wardrop has become known as one of Ireland's freshest creative talents.

Tickets are still available for UK comedian Michael McIntyre's second Galway show on Wednesday 8 July. McIntyre is the star of 'Live at the Apollo' and the fastest selling debut stand-up DVD of all time and is a regular face on all the top TV comedy shows including, 'Mock the Week', 'Have I Got News For You', 'The Graham Norton Show', 'Tonight with Jonathan Ross' and '8 out of 10 cats'.