Mark Kozelek and co are back with a new album, called ‘Among the Leaves’ which will be released on Mark’s own label on the 29th of May. Here’s a taster, which features […]
Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin
I’ve been kind of ignoring this, as it’s a very odd notion. Dublin isn’t Camden, so why not call it something else? The Dublin Crawl, perchance? Anyway, it’s another shot by Meteor […]
Choice Music Prize Winner – Jape!
Congrats to Jape, as he’s a lovely person. I met him on the stairs of the Button Factory about a year ago, and he stopped to let me get past. A well […]
Music for Computer Games
It’s over a year since we were featured on the WordPress homepage with our Music for Computer Games post. That post was about an indie game called Minecraft which had absolutely beautiful […]
Choice Music Prize
The choice music prize is held later today, and we await with baited breath to find out what 11 randomly picked music heads think is the best Irish album of this year. […]
Tricky and Topley-Bird reunite
Tricky and Topley-Bird recorded four albums together, with Maxinquaye being the best known of the lot. They’re playing together on three occasions in late April, in Bristol, Manchester and London. The last […]
An old friend – Red House Painters: Old Ramon
Did you ever have a band you really liked that put out consistently good records but at some point you just stopped listening? I’ve found I have done this with a few […]
Electric Picnic line up announced
Hard to ignore this one, as it’s pretty damn good. Will I actually go this year? Hmm. 31st of August to the 2nd of Sept, in Stradbally as ever. Good bands on […]
Peter Broderick – itstartshear.com
Sing it with me now, ‘h t t p : / / itstartshear.com’, it’s a catchy chorus, isn’t it? The type of thing that lodges in your brain, and you just can’t […]
Is Rocket Juice and the Moon the stupidest name for a band ever?
Damon Albarn, Flea and Tony Allen’s new band is called ‘Rocket juice and the moon’ which is just a rubbish name, but should we hold that against them? Possibly. I’m pretty sure […]
Videodrome: Kool Music 5 – Running Back to Everyone
Haunting late night soundscape with an equally evocative accompanying video. Kool Music is Jasper Baydala and this is a pretty mesmerising track. Directed by Emily Kai Bock.
M Ward Returns – A Wasteland Companion
M Ward used to be someone I was excited about, but somewhere around the time he started hanging out with zooey deschanel, I stopped getting excited. Thankfully, he’s back by himself, with […]
Whitney Huston – A Tribute
We have been quiet since the death of Whitney, mostly due to our grieving process. It’s sad to see a legend pass, but we’re dealing with our pain, and hope it will […]
Hipsters – Example 1
A hipster walks into a bar and says “This bar sucks, it’s full of hipsters”… Ah, the plight of the hipster. Inspired by Morgan’s post about the worst bands of all time, […]
Play & Record – A record a day, every day in 2012
Play & Record is writing about a record (on vinyl) every day in 2012. In their own words: “Each day I will post a photo or several of the record’s packaging (which is […]
New Irish Music – Deaf Joe
I must admit, I only checked this guy out as I thought he was Mumbling Deaf Ro, who had dropped the mumbles. Is Ireland really big enough for a Deaf Ro and […]
Sharon Van Etten – Whelans
Sharon Van Etten is coming to town, for supposedly the first time! She’ll be playing Whelans on Friday May 18th. We mentioned her here before when she sang on the National’s lovely […]
Shlohmo – Bad Vibes & Vacation EP
Released last year, Bad Vibes by Shlohmo would probably have snuck into my top 10 of the year. It’s rarely been off rotation the last week. It kinda just gets under your […]
Is Lana Del Rey real or fake?
Ok, people have officially turned on Lana, and it was always going to happen. She released her first album under the name Lizzy Grant and looked like the photo above (cute girl […]
New Gigs in odd venues
A few new gigs have cropped up in the last few days that are worth a mention. First up it’s Grouper in the Unitarian Church, where a lot of my friends have […]
Mercury Music Prize points to lazy Irish bands!
It is conclusive evidence, and cannot be argued with in any way shape or form, Irish bands are lazy! When they should be off selling their wares in foreign countries, they all […]
A Plastic Rose
Full disclosure, my brother-in-law, Ian, is in the band A Plastic Rose but I want to congratulate the guys on their incredible performance supporting Snow Patrol in the Belfast Odyssey last night. […]
Factory Floor play the Tripod?
Well, maybe. Who knows. On Banquet’s facebook page they have: “Delighted to inform you that on February 4th we’ve got the amazing FACTORY FLOOR playing live @ Banquet! These guys are incredible […]
Jamie XX and Caribou mixtape
I’m only listening to this now, so no idea what it’s like, but it’s free and it’s by people who you’d normally respect! I’m still recovering from Caribou’s headline set at ATP, […]
New music: Natural Traits – Ernest Gonzales
Listen to the entire record below. Lovely new electronic album from Ernest Gonzales
New music: Oneohtrix Point Never – Rubio
There was a lot of hype about Oneohtrix Point Never’s album Replica in 2011. Oddly enough, I would normally be looking forward to hearing an album that is ambient/electronic etc but the first […]
The National curate ATP
This is something I’ve hoped for, for a while anyway, and I thought they had nearly gone too big to do it, but thankfully it’s not the case. The National are picking […]
Daniel Rossen – Saint Nothing
If it sounds like Grizzly Bear or Department of Eagles, it’s because Daniel is part of both bands! He has a lovely voice and this song builds from a very simple piano […]
New music: Nicolas Jaar – With Just One Glance (feat. Scout LaRue)
Nicolas Jaar has put out a new track featuring Scout LaRue on vocals (the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore). And damn fine vocals they are too. It’s a smoldering beauty and very hard to […]
No More Workhorse 