Workhorse is a year old today. What have we learned? Zilch. Diddly. Ok, one or two things I guess. Here are some of the searched terms that have managed to get people […]
Happy Birthday Workhorse
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Hauschka live at NPR with prepared piano
You often hear talk of prepared piano but it is nice to see a guy making excellent music using the technique. In this video you can now also see it. Using tambourines, […]
Tower Records – Record Store Day – Times
Record Store day line up for Tower! it’s pretty much in the opposite order to what i was expecting, so get there around lunch time for the real treats! Hawk & A Hacksaw 12pm […]
Rollerskate Skinny Return (in parts)
Jimi Shields is taking to the stage in Whelans tonight, as the warm up act for the great J Mascis (Dino Jr.). He seems to have left the garden for long enough […]
Samples used by Panda Bear on Person Pitch
As the title suggests, this video is a run through of some of the samples used by Panda Bear on his album, Person Pitch. With the new Panda Bear album, Tomboy, just […]
Dan Deacon – Button Factory
Dan Deacon is back in town! He plays the Dublin Button Factory, on May 8th with tickets at a pretty decent €20 here. He’s fresh from working with Francis Ford Coppola on the sound track for ‘Twixt […]
New Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys new single, ‘Make some noise’. They still sound pretty good if you ask me! And in case you haven’t seen it, here’s the trailer for the new Beastie Boys 30 […]
It would be a sin to go to the Cinema, on a sunny day like this…
Cold Fish is liked by the Times, who says it ‘unforgiving swipes at societal sicknesses and national flaws’, the Guardian says ‘freaky, but is far too long and wearying’. I guess I’ll […]
Jane Says…
You may already know this, but Jane’s Addiction will release a new album in August, titled ”The Great Escape Artist”. They’ve already annonced a limited number of European festival hows, which will […]
Record Store Day – Tower Records
Record Store day (16th April) is an event to get people back into those stores that they used to frequent, before the internet existed. I read an interview with one record store […]
Gig Guide 7-04-11
09/04/11 The Unthanks – Vicar St – Sat 09/04/11 Airborne Toxic Event – Vicar St. – Sat 10/04/11 The Low Anthem – Vicar St – Sun 13/04/11 J Mascis – Whelans – […]
Marlay Park
My 2 year old nephew Sean gets very excited any time anyone mentions Marlay Park. He sees it is a world of excitement and adventure to him, which is unsurpassed. Now, you can […]
2 Concert Packages from Foggy
A variety of ‘deals’ on tickets.ie at the moment, thanks to foggy notions. Basically you save about 50% if you buy the tickets together instead of apart. Some good things in there, […]
Think you can wait…
The new song from the National ‘Think you can wait’ leads me in two directions… The wonderful lilting backing vocals on the song are from Sharon Van Etten, who is someone worth checking […]
Lost Irish #2 – Engine Alley
Engine Alley are straight out of Kilkenny, hard to believe that they ever came from that particular spot. They had three albums, which is two more than i remember, and may well […]
New Kate Bush
I’ve always had a soft spot for Kate Bush, as she was cool and mystifying when I was very, very small! She’s releasing a new album called Director’s Cuts with cover versions […]
4 star movie reviews – 1*04*11
Spring is in the air, the birds are singing in the trees, and due to their abduction of an hour last weekend, it’s starting to feel a lot like summer. This has […]
It’s the Weekend!
It’s the weekend and here’s Weekend by The Sea and Cake! Were your childhood weekends this cool? Is it summer yet?
Irish Electronic Music, Donnacha Costello
For some reason I’m going back over music from ages ago. I think it’s a hangover from our end-of-year lists of 2010 where I think the feeling was that it wasn’t a […]
Look at the people cooking. Look at the people eating. This is entertainment.
Hmm, I’d usually advocate a bit more structure in an article, but I arrived home from work to be made sit in front of a programme about people cooking competitively (eh?), so […]
Music for Babies #7
The music for babies series has taken a break of late, mostly as we’d run out of ideas! Merill Garbus uses the name of Tune Yards for her musical adventures. She released […]
More Random Junk
Showtime are responsible for lots of good things, like Dexter and Weeds. They commissioned a bunch of animated shorts recently, which are worth watching. 7 in total, 2 of which are below, the rest […]
New Music
A couple of folky people I’ve been listening to quite a bit recently. Josh T Pearson is a Texan, but a nice one! He played in the workman’s club over the weekend, […]
Oldham covers Sufjan
The Bonnie Prince himself has covered one of Sufjan’s tracks from ‘Seven Swans’. The full of Sufjan’s 2004 album is being covered, and its all in aid of a good cause, Susan G. […]
Lost Irish No. 1 – Where are they now!
Our extensive team of crack investigators used unusual methods such as ‘google’ and ‘wikipedia’ to track down the elusive Jimi Shields, and here’s what they found. After leaving Rollerskate Skinny in ’94, […]
Trashcan Sinatras Session
I must admit to being quite nerdy about the Trashcan’s,which is a little odd as they are a bands that no one really seems to care about! They’re on tour in the […]
The Universal Sigh
Ok, I take all the negative things I said back, the Universal Sigh (the free newspaper released by Radiohead) sounds like a nice idea. It has artwork, poems and short stories, which […]
Wisdom Teeth
More Don Hertzfeldt. They are just so good.
Secret Soundz
Fence Records may have passed your conscious due to the consistently pleasing output from James Yorkston over the last number of years (well worth checking out if you haven’t). Anyhow, I’ve been […]
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