I thought they’d been quiet for a while. Podge and Rodge’s first movie (mini film) will have its premier online on February 25th. To be in with a chance to get an […]
Duncan the wonder Dog – Free Online
I’ve bene trying to get Duncan the wonder dog since I blogged about it here. Its pretty much the surprise hit of the year, and the first run is completely sold out, […]
PJ Harvey Live Broadcast
Polly is performing her new album live in Paris, and wants to share it with the world! The performance will be on Monday (Valentine’s day!) at 8 pm GMT, and will be available […]
Free Gig – State vs Phantom
The Mercantile has been used as a venue for a while now, but I still haven’t managed to go to anything there. This might be the first! On Friday the 18th of […]
Gramophone Blog
This is a tip from the wonderful Candepop, a long standing blog with pretty good taste in Music is Said on the Gramophone. They have a list of the best songs of […]
Kristin Hersh – Paradoxical Undressing Book Tour
Kristin Hersh is playing in Waterstone’s on Friday night! How annoying is it that I don’t have tickets for it. It is part of a book tour for Paradoxical Undressing, where she […]
Neil Hannon and Friends perform Vampire Weekend?
This is as odd as it sounds, with Neill Hannon, Cathy Davey and Jape performing Vampire Weekends first album, on April 1st in the Button Factory. That date does sound funny, but […]
Iron and Wine – Daytrotter Session
Some good news, as Iron and Wine have a daytrotter session here. It features four tracks for his soon to be released album ‘Kiss each other clean’ (which featured as Roughan’s number […]
The Oatmeal
The oatmeal is an online comic that tries to answer the big questions, like why people don’t respond to your email or where you should use a semi colon; and when you […]
No More World Culture?
The Irish Independent is saying that Dún Laoghaire Festival of World Cultures has officially come to an end. There had been rumors for a while now, that it wouldn’t come back, and […]
Free music for Christmas!
There’s lots of free junk around the place for chrismtas. Richie Egan gave away a previous ep, as we featured here. Now he’s at it again, with a second ep here. Anything […]
Gorillaz Advent Calender
Gorillaz have come over all Christmassy, with an advent calender on their web site! A nice idea, and by the sounds of things, there’s a new album for free on Christmas day. […]
Anyone interested in a night on the tiles?
Just got this mail. Anyone interested in coming along? Nice venue and Should be a good night. Let me know if you are. “You’ve won a pair of tickets to The Jagermeister […]
ATP Preview – Deerhoof
Deerhoof are a four piece from San Francisco who have been going in various formats since 94. For some reason I’ve never really checked them out before, but again I like what […]
Bedroom Databank
Bradford Cox is giving away some of his home recordings again, over at his blog. The bedroom databank is a collection of odds and ends, mostly recorded, as you would expect, in […]
Mogwai Freebie!
I just love free tasters, like when you were a kid going around the supermarket with your Mum, I’d always go back two or three times, hoping the person at the counter […]
Jägermeister Freezer Sessions
Everyone has one spirit that they got stupidly drunk on in their teenage years, and can’t touch ever since. Mine is Tequila (although I might try it again at some stage, you […]
Girl Talk
Girl Talk (or Greg Michael Gillis) just released a new album and its available for free here. He’s a mash up artist, which is a style of music that is starting to […]
Visionair
Redneck Manifesto have long been one of my favorite Irish bands. It must be nearly ten years ago I saw them play an afternoon gig in Whelans when one of them got […]
The Decemberists – The King is dead
The Decemberists have a new album coming out on the 18th of January, and they’re giving away a taster for it, with the song ‘Down by the Water’ (was that also a […]
Tower Records
Tower Records on Wicklow street is getting on a bit. Well, not as bad as some, but its 17th birthday is this month. I have heard that its now an entirely independent […]
The Pixies La La Love You…
More free junk on the Pixie mail list today, which you can get here. Its 145 MB’s of a show, which is slowly downloading at the moment! Its from a live show […]
Lykke Li
I will always remember our failed attempt to see Lykke Li, in Madrid, as 10 ish guys (ok, it was a stag party) turned up around 10.30 at the venue, to see […]
A couple of Pixies
Two Pixies downloads, one is to do with the Interpol thing, mentioned earlier, it includes a video of them playing la la love you, which is kinda fun also! Its available here, […]
Pixies giving away Interpol
I just got a mail from the Pixie mail out list, offering free Interpol tracks. A bit odd, but always nice to get a few free bits. They are available here http://interpolnyc.com/pixies/ […]
Gruff Rhys
Gruff has been wearing many hats in the last few years, as the lead singer of the Super Furry Animals, Neon Neon and various other side projects. He’s returning to Dublin to […]
Music for Computer Games – follow up
Well, it’s been an eventful weekend for the No More Workhorse gang with the blog being featured on the homepage of Wordpress.com. We’re pretty excited about that and we’re delighted we got […]
Sage Francis via Dan Le Sac
Sage Francis is part of the rap world that intersects with poetry, performing regularly at poetry slams as part of the providence (rhode Island) team. While I’d say a lot of poetry […]
Pinkerton Extras
Radio station 107.7 (The End) are hosting a few songs from Weezer’s extras and B-sides compilation “Death of False Metal”. These songs are taken from probably their best album “Pinkerton”, and not […]