William Basinski is an ambient pioneer who frequently uses tape loops to create dazzling soundscapes. Better known for his Disintegration Loops series where he used old tape loops which had degraded over time. […]
William Basinski
Election special
It’s amazing what politicians will do for votes. It’s also amazing what they think will make us vote for them! Just heard a piece on RTE about campaign songs, and had to […]
Sufjan and Forbidden Fruit!
Its officially official, in that its definitely happening, unless there’s another volcano or if he gets a cold or something. Anyway, Sufjan is coming to town, he’s playing the Olympia on the […]
New Gigs
None of these will rock your world, but if you’re looking for a night out, you could do a lot worse than some of this lot. Couple of new announcements worth a […]
Queens of the Stone age – Olympia
The Queens of the stone age are definitely playing in the Olympia on the 19th of May. This may or may not be the day after Sufjan plays, we’ll have to wait […]
Musical experiments around the house
More lovely musical adventures from our friends at Lullatone
Sensorium
Sensorium is a week long music festival, in the project arts centre Dublin. You can find details of it here. It is being organised by the great Judith Ring, It runs from […]
Radiohead Return
Some critics love to hate them, some just love to love them. They’re back regardless, with a new album released on Saturday next, the 20th of February. The album is called ‘Kings […]
Yo La Tengo do Seinfeld
On Yo La Tengo’s new tour, a member of the audience is called to the front, and asked to spin a wheel, at the start of each show. The wheel lets you […]
Button Factory in Examinership
A quick look back at our recent gig guide shows that a lot more gigs than normal were showing up in the Button Factory, with Deerhunter, John Grant, Matmos, Joan as Policewoman, […]
LCD Soundsystem Final Show
To be honest, I never took James Murphy in the least bit serious when he talked of breaking up the band and not performing as LCD Soundsystem anymore, but he seems to […]
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 […]
Gig News
The Original line up of Grant Lee Buffalo play Vicar Street on Tuesday the 17th of May. Tickets at 28 euro. I loved fuzzy when it was first released in ’93 (showing […]
Grinderman in Vicar Street
Nick Cave returns to town, with his Grinderman this time. I’ve never been entirely convinced by Griderman, which is odd, as I have such a soft spot for Nick. They generally play […]
Will Oldham interviews R Kelly
I have to say, I’d love if there was a video of this interview. Those two people in the one room at the one time, just doesn’t make sense to me, they […]
John Barry RIP
Possibly the greatest composer to work in cinema, John Barry has died at the age of 77. He will be best remember for his Bond work, such as Goldfinger and From Russia […]
Baths
I’ve been listening to Baths a bit of late (the album Cerulean). Will Wiesenfeld is the Californian behind the music and he creates a lovely blend of electronica and hip-hop, being simultaneously […]
The National – Other voices
The much discussed appearance of the National on Other voices will be aired on the Wednesday the 16th of Feb on RTE 2, at 11.25. The appearance itself almost didn’t happen, due […]
A Gig for Saturday night.
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 […]
No More Workhorse 