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 […]
I hate Snow
Let me be clear about this, and not to put too fine a point on it, I hate snow. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it! Well, it’s fine as […]
ATP Times
Just noticed the times have been posted on the ATP website here. The big surprise is that Godspeed play EVERY NIGHT! Weird. I guess they miss playing or something. I’ll list the […]
New Track by PJ
Miss Harvey returns, with another album on the way which will be her 8th. Where do the years go. See what you think. The album is released in February, so not that […]
ATP Preview – Scout Niblett
Looking out at the flurry of snow and the variety of weather warnings, I’m quite worried that all this ATP Previewing might be for nothing. My flight is on Friday morning, if […]
The National and Sufjan
Sufjan was on stage with the National last night in London. I wonder will he make it as far as Dublin? Probably not. He doesn’t get hugely involved to be honest, he […]
ATP Preview – Mike Watt and the Missing Men
Mike Watt is another one of those legends I’ve never heard of! I guess there are a lot of old rock bands and therefore a lot of old rockers, who almost really […]
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 – Bardo Pond
Bardo Pond are a six piece American band with lots of heavy layered guitar sounds and softly lilting vocals, not a world away from someone like My Bloody Valentine, although without the […]
ATP Preview – Neurosis
These were always one of the names that scared me a little in the ATP line up! They’re a four piece experimental metal or Doom metal band from Oakland, California. I have […]
ATP – I’ll be your mirror – Portishead
A new venture for the ATP people, is a two day festival will take place in Alexandria Palace on the 23rd and 24th of July 2011. It will be curated by Portishead, […]
ATP Preview – Charlemagne Palestine
Another odd one for ATP, which is good news! He seems very interested in his collection of Teddy Bears from what I can see of the interviews of him on the net, […]
Godspeed! book club
Every ATP festival, the curator likes to put on something special for their fans. Kelly Deal (the Breeders) ran a knitting club, which I never made it to. She claims that she […]
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 […]
Gig Guide – 23-11-10
Notice something? No gigs in January! its odd, but i can’t find anything worth a damn in there, so its an empty months so far, maybe something will turn up. Still no […]
ATP Preview – Black Dice
Noah Lennox “ I can’t speak for the other guys [of Animal Collective], but certainly for myself, like I modelled the way I approach to everything with the band watching the way […]
ATP Preview – The Ex
The Ex are a four piece punk outfit formed in 1979 in the Netherlands. They are known for their musical experimentation and have released over 20 full length albums. Who knew? Godspeed […]
ATP Preview – The Dead C
This lot are a New Zealand noise rock trio, with guitars, vocals and drums and then some looping electronic guff. They’ve been going since 1986, so another lot of old lads. They […]
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 […]
ATP Preview – Throbbing Gristle
Only two weeks before I head off to ATP – Godspeed style, so I’m doing a bit of homework first! I must admit I don’t know too many of the bands on […]
No More Workhorse 