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 […]
Sage Francis via Dan Le Sac
Sage Francis is part of the rap world that intersects with poetry, performing regularly at poetry slams as part of the providence (rhode Island) team. While I’d say a lot of poetry […]
Music for Computer Games
Following on from our ‘Music for Babies’ series, we thought we’d have a look at ‘Music for Computer games’ next. I’m not one to play computer games but I recently came across […]
Chilly Peppers
Lots of bloggers are getting excited about the announcement that Chilly Gonzales is bringing his “Piano Talk” Show to the Sugar Club. Tickets are €19.85 before rip off fees. He has worked […]
Pinkerton Extras
Radio station 107.7 (The End) are hosting a few songs from Weezer’s extras and B-sides compilation “Death of False Metal”. These songs are taken from probably their best album “Pinkerton”, and not […]
Dancing about Architecture
I’ve seen the “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture” quote variously attributed to Miles Davis, Elvis Costello, and Frank Zappa. Who said it? I’ve no idea, these people think its […]
Slow News Day – Fantasy Band
Its definitely a slow news day in the Times, as they’re running a fantasy band, with the following rules: “No more than two dead people for the starting five; No more than […]
Jape watches Fionn from afar
Ok, I didn’t know this when i posted yesterday, but it does involve a few of my favorite Irish bands, so it’s worth a mention. Saturday November 20 – Whelan’s, Dublin – […]
Surfer Blood cover Pavement
A nice version of box elder (Pavement) with a few other tacks, available for download here. I saw Surfer Blood at last summer’s ATP, and while they didn’t blow me away, they’re […]
Twin Shadow
I’ve been giving a lot of headphone time over the last couple of days to some tracks emerging from the Twin Shadow album “Forget”. There are video links to three tracks below […]
Best new music, according to…
This one is kind of a cheat I guess, as it isn’t a single site at all, rather a compilation of lots of different sites! Metacritic is a site i often use […]
Avey Tare
I’ve no strong emotions on Animal Collective. I think they’re grand, and for that reason, and that reason only, it surprises me when people (ok, I mean pitchfork) get so hot and […]
Brian Eno – Small Craft on a Milk Sea
A new album from Eno is always worth checking out I feel and there is a new one on the way. Check out the stream of ‘2 Forms of Anger’ below. Works […]
Music for Babies #6
We’re now on our 6th installment of our Baby Music series. Again it’s Lullatone with some ambient lullabies. Thanks to Shawn from Lullatone for contacting No More WorkHorse and letting […]
Sam Amidon
Sam Amidon is back! He was only here on Sunday with the Whale Watching in the NCH (which I actually meant to go to, but completely forgot about!). He’s playing in Whelans […]
Best Albums… According to
I’m slow enough to put up reviews of music, as all reviewers carry so much baggage. It depends on what their taste is, what age they are, whether this is the first […]
Rat Girl
Ok, a few of you possibly knew about it for a long time, but no one told me! Kristin Hersh has written a biography, somehow finding the time between touring, being a […]
Nostalgia
Is Nostalgia a good thing? A yearning for the past, often in an idealized form. I’m not sure it is, but it certainly sells tickets for concerts. When asked how to have […]
Something good for Culture night!
Finally, something worth doing on culture night! I know, its quite surprising, as the rest of it a nonsense really. State and IMRO are putting together a night for interview and live […]
The Social Network
Is anything by Trent Reznor worth downloading, even if its free? I think I’d be in the ‘No’ camp on that question, but i know some people who differ on that, so […]
Pavement Interview
This really is well worth having a look at, for Malkmus’ shocking performance! He is being interviewed by someone who clearly has no idea who he is, and doesn’t really care anyway, […]
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