Irish music has benefitted, but also suffered greatly at the hands of U2 and the shadow they’ve cast for the last 30 odd years. This series of ‘Lost Music’ (which I sort […]
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JDset Update
The sad news is if you didn’t already receive a confirmation email, you didn’t win tickets! They went out on the 22nd, so check your spam filter, just in case. I’ll be […]
Tom Waits Induction
Tom Waits being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Neil Young. It’s 13 minutes long and has lots of things I’d never seen before. Go watch!
Pitchfork to screen final LCD gig
The wonderful Pitchfork (where John gets his musical taste from) are screening the final ever LCD soundsystem gig live! It’s meant to be a three hour long show, with lots of special […]
Confused Movie news – 25-03-11
How can this be a good movie? How can a documentary about a trip to see cave paintings in France in 3D be in any way worthwhile? ‘The Cave of forgotten dreams’ […]
Bill Callahan – Apocalypse
Yeah, good Smog news: New Album – Apocalypse is out in April New Gig – May 5th Academy Dublin Ireland New Song – ‘Baby’s Breath’ Just listened to the song, and there’s no […]
Another publicity stunt from Radiohead
Very exciting news from Radiohead, they’re giving away a free news paper called ‘The Universal Sigh’ on Monday the 28th of March. They will be given out in most major cities in […]
New Fleet Foxes
The Fleet Foxes are offering us more of the same, but for some reason, I still quite like it. Maybe it’s just because this is their second album and not their fourth […]
Lidya the Tattooed Lady
While discussing global politics and in particular the recent events in the middle east, in the impossibly long queue for Patrick Wolf last night, this song came up, and I just have to […]
The Escapist
The Amazing adventures of Klavier and Clay is a novel by Michael Chabon, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001. It tells the story of the two men that invented the greatest comic […]
In Motion – Hollow Blow
I just had a nostalgic moment and so I did a quick search for In Motion (took me several minutes to remember the band name!). Their album, The Language of Everyday Life, […]
Bands announced for ATP
A few more bands have been announced for the ATP nightmare before Christmas with Battles, Caribou and Les Savy Fav (9th -11th Dec). All seem standard ATP choices, and No Age seem […]
Happy Happy!
Happy Birthday to one of my fellow bloggers, who I was too lazy to send a card to! This is possibly my favorite version of Happy Birthday, which I found on the […]
Minecraft revisited
A while back we did a piece on the music of C418, the artist behind the music of the phenominally successful cult computer game Minecraft. Well it turns out that a documentary […]
Movie Reviews – 19-03-11
An actual movie review this time, as in a movie i’ve seen myself! Submarine is comedy set in wales, directed by Richard Ayodale (the guy with the big hair in the I.T. crowd!). […]
St Paddy’s day special
‘People will do anything for a pot of gold, anything’ We all know that St. Patrick himself (the Patron Saint of drunken violence) was a Welsh guy who was kidnapped and taken […]
Burial, Fourtet and… Thom Yorke
Am I wrong in thinking that Thom Yorke seems like a ‘hanger on’ in this group? I guess he feeds of their street cred and they feed off his MONEY! Not sure […]
Dude sounds like a Lady
Is this the story of a woman trapped in a man’s body, or more likely the story of journalists who do less checking that I do! The New York Times runs with […]
Chris Taylor is good people!
Chris Taylor of Grizzly bear has released a song, together with Twin Shadow and Solagne Knowles for the Music for Rain campaign. It is availabe on a ‘donate to download scheme’ which […]
Villagers – Daytrotter
Have to say i was a little annoyed when the Villagers didn’t win the Choice music prize. His new album is the best reviewed Irish album in years, and has done the […]
New Movies – 11-03-11
Norwegian Wood gets confusing reviews, the type of reviews that scare me a little, and would make me very slow to go to it. The Guardian loves it, the English Independent doesn’t, […]
Kurt Vile
I’m digging the new Kurt Vile album, Smoke Ring For My Halo. Vile seems to be channelling Grant Lee Buffalo, Neil Young, The Velvet Underground… stoner rock for the soul. I like.
And you will know us…
…And You Will Know Know Us By The Trail Of Dead play in Whelans on Wednesday May 25. They’re a band i’ve always thought I’d eventually get into, but so far it hasn’t […]
Foxes vs Bears
Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold has been working with Grizzly Bear’s own Ed Droste. It’s a tasty comibination as both are responsible or at least have had a hand in, some of the better albums […]
Gig Guide – 07-03-11
A busy few months ahead. Must crack open my piggy bank! 14/03/11 Iron and Wine – Olympia – Mon 16/03/11 Raekwon the Chef – Button Factory – Wed 17/03/11 Hercules and Love […]
New sounds from the Dodos
The Dodos new album is being streamed on hypem. Have to say I think the Dodos are a hugely under rated band, and their album Visiter from 2007 is a thing of […]
New gigs
James Blake is the trendiest thing in trend town, everyone in trend town thinks he’s great, and have nothing but good things to say about him. I’m….. not overly convinced about him, […]
Movie Glut – 04-03-11
Yes, this week seems to be the day to release your movie. Maybe they were all holding them back, due to the oscars. Who knows. Archipelago is the story of an unsuccessful […]
ATP – A nightmare before Christmas
This one is a little exciting, as ATP have just announced their second Nightmare before Christmas. It is to be curated by Battles, Les Savy Fav & Caribou, which sounds just about […]
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