Just one gig I noticed on Nialler9’s list, and while the name itself didn’t mean much to me, the brackets after it did! Ali Shaheed Muhammad (A tribe called quest!) is playing […]
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 […]
Phosperescent return!
Hotpress are reporting that Phosperescent are making their debut headline performance in Ireland in the workman’s club on June 2nd. It must be my imagination that I saw them play in Whelans in […]
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 […]
Defending my honour. No More WorkHorse v Pitchfork – Best Ofs
To respond to a recent comment suggesting my top 10 for 2010 was similar to Pitchfork’s top 10 for 2010, here’s a very quick breakdown of the stats for the three contributors […]
Broadcast singer Trish Keenan dies
Sad news, as the lead singer of Broadcast Trish Keenan died yesterday aged 42. Not a very rock star end, as she seems to have had H1N1 flu, which ended up as […]
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 […]
Richter Collective
One gig that might be worth a heading along to, is Richter Collective’s show at the Button factory next Friday (14th of Jan). It features Not Squares, Bats and Enemies among others. […]
Anything on at the movies? – 07-01-11
A certain nameless individual was giving out to me for not having seen any of the movies I review. I’m not sure he gets the point of this, as it’s not a […]
Will Oldham for President!
With straight talking like this, there’s only one man that could save our country, or any country for that matter. You can listen/ download to the full thing here and a nice little session here. They’re […]
Best gig of 2011? Les Savy Fav – New Years Eve – Button Factory
Les Savy Fav in the Button factory on New Years eve lived up to the immense expectation I had for it, and it must already be a contender for gig of the […]
Zig and Zag return!
I only realised this due to the impossibly bad advertisement campaign that 2 fm have on tv and around town at the moment. Zig and Zag are on some of the posters, […]
Coverting Roughan to…
Yes, a new series, I can see it coming… or maybe not, I think this could be a one-off. Anyway, the bold Mister Sheedy says he doesn’t like ‘Bright Eyes’, and possibly […]
Things to look forward to…
Ok, possibly enough looking back. Well, I’m tempted to do a top theatre of 2010, but would anyone really care? We’ll see how bored I get over the christmas period. So, on […]
Gig guide… 23-12-10
January is still looking pretty bleak, but there’s a great list of new additions, with many of those featuring in the end of year yokes we’ve been doing here, such as Warpaint, […]
The origin of ‘smells like teen spirit’
An interesting video on youtube from Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill), which discusses teen spirit, stripping and other issues. Worth a look this one, if you were ever a Nirvana fan.
New Sufjan for Christmas!
Sufjan Stevens suffers from a bad case of religion, which is a terrible affliction for anyone to have to suffer through. It is a long term illness, largely without any treatment available. […]
The Best Music of 2010 – MQ
This is the first of three lists on the site, as we’ll all have a go at our top music of the year. I seem to have beaten the crowd though, so […]
The Best Music of 2010 – JR
There’s not a lot you can say to preface these lists. Basically, this is the new music that flipped my wig in 2010. Big thanks to Morgan who really kept the show […]
Oneida with White Magic
One of the cooler things at Godspeed ATP was the 10 hour jam session from Oneida. Yes, that’s not a mistake, the band came on stage at 2 pm and finished at […]
The New Beasties
MCA is releasing a short movie in Sundance next month, entitled ‘Fight for your right, revisited’. As the name suggests, it’s a short movie about the Beastie Boys in earlier days, in […]
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 […]
Halves
I was going to entitle this piece as ‘What’s Irish for Mogwai’ but that would be a little cruel, and to be honest, its not like Mogwai created the wonderful genre of […]
Alan Moore knows the Score
Always first with the news, Alan Moore seems to have released an album somewhere in August of this year. I only stumbled upon this now in one of the end of the […]
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. […]
Sleigh Bells in February?
A band very appropriate for this time of year, Sleigh Bells are finally coming to Dublin. They play Whelans on the 18th of Feb. You’ll probably have to move fast to get […]
Gold Panda
I’ve been listening to the Gold Panda LP, Lucky Shiner, recently. The nearest reference point would be (to these ears anyway) Manitoba’s LP, Start Breaking My Heart (for me, Dan Snaith’s best […]
Are you a Neutral Milk Hotel fan?
So much has been said already about Neutral Milk Hotel’s 1998 album, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, and it seems that the fascination with Jeff Mangum will continue forever. This is […]
Music for Snow #1
For me, the snow calls for a certain type of music on the headphones for walking. At the moment it’s Ulf Lohmann so I thought I’d pop up a link to one […]
No More Workhorse 