‘I’m picking out the hooker that I like the best, I’m crying on her toilet coz my life’s a mess’ Moments of genius are few and far between, but this could be […]
New Music – The Rubberbandits – Dads Best Friend
Belle & Sebastian to record Eurovision album?
Maybe Belle & Sebastian might be able to enter the Eurovision for Scotland in a few years, you never know. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone Stuart Murdoch confirmed they’ll start […]
New Irish Music – Girl Band – Lawman (Video)
The video has just been released for the wonderfully controlled noise-fest that is Girl Band’s new single Lawman. It’s a joyously scuzzy videotape-esque promo (made by Second/Frame) and it works beautifully. The […]
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra – Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything – Album Review
‘We live on an island called Montreal, and we make a lot of noise, because we love each other!’ says the voice of a small child to introduce the new album by […]
New Music: Damon Albarn – Everday Robots (Longitude Appearance?)
This is the first release of Damon’s new album, and the title track no less. The album will be released on April 28th. He has just been announced as a headliner in […]
Four Tet Release Early Albums
Four new Four Tet albums dropped this morning, as a new Band Camp site came into existence. The albums vary in length and cost, but if you’re a purist, and want to […]
New Music – Fox Jaw – Kerosene
It’s one of those ‘will he, won’t he’ videos that makes you watch right through to the very end! This song is taken from their second album, Ghost Parade which will be […]
Warpaint – Warpaint – Album Review
This album quietly took me by surprise. I’d heard the single that was bouncing around the airwaves, but was expecting the album to be patchy at best, but there’s consistency and quality […]
Things to do in Dublin this week (20-1-14 – 26-1-14)
Well, here wer are, back at this weeks ‘Things to do’ post, it’s like nothing ever happen, nothing happens at all, the needle returns to the start of the song and we […]
Damien Jurado – Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son – Album Review
Amazingly, this is Damien’s 11th studio album, with the first being released in 1997. Another performer that has endured where many others have fallen in his wake. He must be doing something […]
Everything must go now – Hugh Lane Gallery – 18-01-14
This is the closing event of the Bubblewrap game in the Sleepwalker series, that promises to deliver free food, music and of course art (well, it is in an art gallery). It’s […]
Moonface – Young Hearts Run Free – St. Werburgh’s Church – 29-01-14
Details just came through of the latest Young Hearts gig, and this time it’s in St. Werburgh’s Church (that’s the one beside Burdocks and Jury’s Inn) on Jan 29th! They’re bringing back […]
Mogwai – Rave Tapes – Review
Mogwai return with their first album proper since the 2011 album ‘Hardcore will never die, but you will’, although there has been some remix and soundtrack work in between (let’s just say, […]
New Music – Dylan Tighe – Record
Dylan Tighe is someone we’ve been banging on about on this site for some time. Over the years, he’s worked with Pan Pan Theatre company and even had his own solo show […]
Temple Bar TradFest 2014 – Preview
It’s a quiet time of year when footsteps echo on many an empty street but not so on the cobbles of Temple Bar next week. That’s because Temple Bar TradFest 2014 kicks […]
Gig News – Tera Melos, Hall & Oates etc
Tera Melos are one of those bands that have been mentioned in all the right places. The Californian trio play the Workman’s Club on Saturday Feb 1st, with tickets at €10. Support […]
Cass McCombs – Workman’s Club – Gig Review – 11-01-14
You can tell a lot about a band by what drinks they bring on stage wit h them. Some bands bring a bottle of whiskey, and you know they’re not to be […]
Dolls – First Fortnight Festival – Project Arts Centre – Review
Dolls returns to the Project Arts Centre as part of the First Fortnight Festival and will run from Jan 9th – 11th. Here is our review from its run during the Fringe […]
New Music – Champs – Only A Bullet Knows Where To Run – Free Download
Michael and David Cahmpion record under the name ‘Champs’, and it’s nicely layers piano music, with a rush of vocals wafting over. Check out the single ‘Only a bullet knows where to […]
Crookers – ‘Ghetto Guetta’ Remix Competition
Do you like the Crookers track below? Think you could do a better job? Well, now is your chance to prove it. Crookers have given you all you need to put the […]
Things to do in Dublin this week (6-1-14 – 12-1-14)
So, things are settling down a little bit, right? Life is returning to normal after a brief spell of madness over the holidays. All the emigrants have returned to their adopted homes, […]
Whelans 25th Anniversary Celebrations
It’s been a constant for my gig going life, and definitely my favourite venue to see any singer songwriter play. I even remember Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub and the New Mendicants […]
Pixies talk about EP-2
Another Pixie EP just dropped this morning, the way more and more music is being released these days, no hype, no fuss, just ‘it’s available now…’. I’m liking the lead single Blue-Eyed […]
New Year Music Releases
So, it’s out with the old and in with the new. We’re also back on even numbers with 2014, which always feels more balanced, or is that just me? Of the new […]
Cfit – Coke & Spiriters Remix – Free Download
Cfit have made one of their songs available at ‘Name your price’ for a limited time only. See what you think of the remix of Coke and Spiriters below. If you haven’t […]
Things to do in Dublin this week (30-12-14 – 5-1-14)
‘What’s another year’ a wise man once said, and here at the workhorse we share Johnny’s emotion as it’s out with the old and in with the new! 2013 was always an […]
Things to do in Dublin this week (23-12-13 – 29-12-13)
Well, honest to God, most things are closed this week. Again, blame Santa! It’s all the jolly guys fault. There still are some good gigs around the city and a few other […]
Best Albums of 2013 – No 10 – 1
10. Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest The return of old friends. Often an album with as much hype as these guys generated fails to live up to expectation and while there […]
Gig News – The National and Longitude
First off, Longitude is back! I wasn’t sure it would, as Arcade Fire could have been instead of the festival, but that seems not to be the case. The festival will take […]
No More Workhorse 