You often hear talk of prepared piano but it is nice to see a guy making excellent music using the technique. In this video you can now also see it. Using tambourines, […]
Hauschka live at NPR with prepared piano
Rollerskate Skinny Return (in parts)
Jimi Shields is taking to the stage in Whelans tonight, as the warm up act for the great J Mascis (Dino Jr.). He seems to have left the garden for long enough […]
Samples used by Panda Bear on Person Pitch
As the title suggests, this video is a run through of some of the samples used by Panda Bear on his album, Person Pitch. With the new Panda Bear album, Tomboy, just […]
Dan Deacon – Button Factory
Dan Deacon is back in town! He plays the Dublin Button Factory, on May 8th with tickets at a pretty decent €20 here. He’s fresh from working with Francis Ford Coppola on the sound track for ‘Twixt […]
Marlay Park
My 2 year old nephew Sean gets very excited any time anyone mentions Marlay Park. He sees it is a world of excitement and adventure to him, which is unsurpassed. Now, you can […]
2 Concert Packages from Foggy
A variety of ‘deals’ on tickets.ie at the moment, thanks to foggy notions. Basically you save about 50% if you buy the tickets together instead of apart. Some good things in there, […]
Think you can wait…
The new song from the National ‘Think you can wait’ leads me in two directions… The wonderful lilting backing vocals on the song are from Sharon Van Etten, who is someone worth checking […]
Lost Irish #2 – Engine Alley
Engine Alley are straight out of Kilkenny, hard to believe that they ever came from that particular spot. They had three albums, which is two more than i remember, and may well […]
New Kate Bush
I’ve always had a soft spot for Kate Bush, as she was cool and mystifying when I was very, very small! She’s releasing a new album called Director’s Cuts with cover versions […]
It’s the Weekend!
It’s the weekend and here’s Weekend by The Sea and Cake! Were your childhood weekends this cool? Is it summer yet?
Irish Electronic Music, Donnacha Costello
For some reason I’m going back over music from ages ago. I think it’s a hangover from our end-of-year lists of 2010 where I think the feeling was that it wasn’t a […]
Music for Babies #7
The music for babies series has taken a break of late, mostly as we’d run out of ideas! Merill Garbus uses the name of Tune Yards for her musical adventures. She released […]
New Music
A couple of folky people I’ve been listening to quite a bit recently. Josh T Pearson is a Texan, but a nice one! He played in the workman’s club over the weekend, […]
Oldham covers Sufjan
The Bonnie Prince himself has covered one of Sufjan’s tracks from ‘Seven Swans’. The full of Sufjan’s 2004 album is being covered, and its all in aid of a good cause, Susan G. […]
Lost Irish No. 1 – Where are they now!
Our extensive team of crack investigators used unusual methods such as ‘google’ and ‘wikipedia’ to track down the elusive Jimi Shields, and here’s what they found. After leaving Rollerskate Skinny in ’94, […]
Trashcan Sinatras Session
I must admit to being quite nerdy about the Trashcan’s,which is a little odd as they are a bands that no one really seems to care about! They’re on tour in the […]
The Universal Sigh
Ok, I take all the negative things I said back, the Universal Sigh (the free newspaper released by Radiohead) sounds like a nice idea. It has artwork, poems and short stories, which […]
Secret Soundz
Fence Records may have passed your conscious due to the consistently pleasing output from James Yorkston over the last number of years (well worth checking out if you haven’t). Anyhow, I’ve been […]
Lost Music – Irish Edition No. 1
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
No More Workhorse 