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 […]
The Decemberists – my present!
A couple of new gigs worth mentioning, 1st up is Lykke Li for the 16th of April, she’s long been one that has got away, so I think I’ll make the effort […]
Gorecki
I may have been one of the more pretentious teenagers around, but many Saturday evenings ended in one of my friends houses, where we would put on what was always just called […]
Girl Talk
Girl Talk (or Greg Michael Gillis) just released a new album and its available for free here. He’s a mash up artist, which is a style of music that is starting to […]
Les Savy Fav – New Year’s Eve
I cannot say how good this news is, and whoever organised it, deserves a world of credit. Les Savy Fav are pretty average musically, but Tim Harrington is who you are really […]
Ben Folds
Ben Folds has just announced a gig in Vicar street for the 18th of Feb with tickets on sale on Friday for a mere 33.60, which isn’t too bad. He’ll be playing […]
What is wrong with people?
The Kings of Leon sold out in 40 minutes today, with ticket price set at 79 euro before rip off fees, so it generated over 6.5 million. They’ve just announced a second […]
Visionair
Redneck Manifesto have long been one of my favorite Irish bands. It must be nearly ten years ago I saw them play an afternoon gig in Whelans when one of them got […]
Pork on Eno
This is slightly out of character, or at least out of character for the type of person I presumed Brian Eno to be. In this clip Brian Eno is interviewed by someone […]
The Decemberists – The King is dead
The Decemberists have a new album coming out on the 18th of January, and they’re giving away a taster for it, with the song ‘Down by the Water’ (was that also a […]
Broken Social Sopranos
I’ve always had a strained relationship with Opera, in that i basically think it’s pants. Especially sopranos, whose whole vocal range seems to do what nails on a blackboard does for most […]
Tower Records
Tower Records on Wicklow street is getting on a bit. Well, not as bad as some, but its 17th birthday is this month. I have heard that its now an entirely independent […]
The Umbrella Academy
I first stumbled accross the Umbrella Academy, when i was looking at what won the Eisner awards (The Oscars for comics) a few years ago. It won best limited series, after a brief […]
Battle of the Bands!
Tough choice for next Thursday, with three good gigs on the one night. I think I went to all three bands last time they were in town, so its a little unlucky […]
The National play Dingle?
Yep! Strange as it sounds, but not really that strange. It’s part of ‘Other Voices’, the RTE show that is filmed in St. James’ Church, Dingle. Other acts include Marina and the […]
The Pixies La La Love You…
More free junk on the Pixie mail list today, which you can get here. Its 145 MB’s of a show, which is slowly downloading at the moment! Its from a live show […]
Tron Legacy
There’s been talk about this for a while now, and I’ve resisted posting it. Daft Punk are doing the music to the new Tron Legacy movie, which opens in the states on […]
Animal Collective curate ATP
Animal Collective have been given the nod to curate ATP in Minehead, from May 13th to 15th. Not my favorite choice in recent years, while I do like their music, they are […]
Lykke Li
I will always remember our failed attempt to see Lykke Li, in Madrid, as 10 ish guys (ok, it was a stag party) turned up around 10.30 at the venue, to see […]
Iron and Wine
Iron and Wine are set to return to Dublin for a date in the Olympia on March 14th of next year. I was at their last show in the Ambassador a few […]
Warpaint
This lot played in Crawdaddy on Saturday, and while I missed it myself, there’s lots of bloggers getting very excited about it! Sounds a good gig, and i like what i hear […]
No More Workhorse 