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 […]
Marissa Nadler
The weird and wonderful Marissa Nadler is in town again. She’s playing ATP, and is stopping off in Dublin before it, to play Crawdaddy on the 1st of December. It should be […]
CMJ Music
College Music Journal is a music events and publishing company based in New York. They have an on line magazine here, which has a variety of music news and downloads. They also have an […]
A couple of Pixies
Two Pixies downloads, one is to do with the Interpol thing, mentioned earlier, it includes a video of them playing la la love you, which is kinda fun also! Its available here, […]
Music for Computers #3
A nice twist on the average soundtrack was Fallout 3, recommended to us by Arden K. As Arden says: “Fallout is interesting because it takes place after full-scale nuclear war, so the […]
Music for Computers #2
We were delighted to the response to our Music for Computers #1 post, which had over 4,000 hits, and 78 comments to date. It featured on the wordpress home page, which is […]
Pixies giving away Interpol
I just got a mail from the Pixie mail out list, offering free Interpol tracks. A bit odd, but always nice to get a few free bits. They are available here http://interpolnyc.com/pixies/ […]
Gruff Rhys
Gruff has been wearing many hats in the last few years, as the lead singer of the Super Furry Animals, Neon Neon and various other side projects. He’s returning to Dublin to […]
Music for Computer Games – follow up
Well, it’s been an eventful weekend for the No More Workhorse gang with the blog being featured on the homepage of Wordpress.com. We’re pretty excited about that and we’re delighted we got […]
Villager’s Session
Lovely three song session on Sun tv (yes, that Sun!), with Conor J O’Brien singing a few of his better known songs, as well as a version of Tightrope by Janelle Monae (who […]
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