“A whipping boy, was a young boy who was assigned to a young prince and was punished when the prince misbehaved or fell behind in his schooling. Whipping boys were established in […]
Lost Irish #3 – Whipping Boy
New Pixies Album?
I’ve checked the date twice, and it’s not April 1st! This is something that would have set my heart racing a few years ago, but at this stage, it leaves me slightly […]
Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells
Something to look foward to. Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat release an album together on May 5th. Bill of the Bill Wells trio and Aidan of Arab Strap. An unlikely combination, but […]
Bill Callahan – Daytrotter
What it says on the tin. A lovely session by the great man, who plays live in Dublin on Thursday. I still think the Academy is too large a venue for him, […]
Beastie Boys – Fight for your Right – Revisited
I’m sure most of you have seen this by this stage, but as the blog has been ‘dark’ for the last few days, it hasn’t been hosted here and to be honest, […]
And so I watch you from afar
Gangs if the second album from four piece instrumental Irish rock band ‘And so I watch you from afar’. From what i’ve heard so far, it sounds pretty good! You can listen to it below, […]
Mindfield
Mindfield is a ‘festival of ideas’ which runs from this weekend in Merrion Square, dealing with four main areas of Culture, Technology, Politics and Inspiration. The list of international names involved is […]
Dublin Writers Festival
Dublin Writers Festival runs from the 23rd to the 29th of May, and as usual brings together some well known Irish and International writers, for talks and signings. Some of the better […]
Pina
While at the movies yesterday, I saw the trailer for Pina, and have to say, it looks like it could be fun. I’ve always had a soft spot for Wim!
Movies – 22/04/11 – How I ended this Summer
‘How I ended this Summer’ is the story of two men in a isolated russian weather station. All the critics seem to think it’s top notch, but it might be a bit […]
Simon Nabatov
Simon Nabatov is a Russian Jazz pianist, he started playing piano at 3 and composed his first pieces at age 6. He was named keyboard magazine’s ‘best pianist’ in 1984 and certainly […]
David Baker (or, when Mercury Rev were good…)
Remember when Mercury Rev were good? Remember David Baker? Baker left Mercury Rev around 94… and oh what a loss he was (although I am quite fond of See You on the […]
Franz Ferdinand Covers
First and last post on Franz Ferdinand, but it’s for a good reason, as some interesting folk have covered them. There’s a good line up of people on the EP including the […]
Favourite Sons
Ken Griffin of Favourite Sons posted a comment in our recent post on Rollerskate Skinny, saying that Jimi Shields only played with the first Rollerskate Skinny album, which is funny, as this […]
Odd Future
I’ve been resisting temptation to put these guys up on the blog for a while now, mostly because the rest of the universe had them on theirs! This isn’t really a good […]
New Movies – Meek’s Cutoff
Meek’s Cutoff seems like the movie of choice this week. It’s directed by Kelly Reichardt who made Old Joy starring Will Oldham a few years ago. Its rare a trailer really captures me, […]
Happy Birthday Workhorse
Workhorse is a year old today. What have we learned? Zilch. Diddly. Ok, one or two things I guess. Here are some of the searched terms that have managed to get people […]
Hauschka live at NPR with prepared piano
You often hear talk of prepared piano but it is nice to see a guy making excellent music using the technique. In this video you can now also see it. Using tambourines, […]
Tower Records – Record Store Day – Times
Record Store day line up for Tower! it’s pretty much in the opposite order to what i was expecting, so get there around lunch time for the real treats! Hawk & A Hacksaw 12pm […]
Rollerskate Skinny Return (in parts)
Jimi Shields is taking to the stage in Whelans tonight, as the warm up act for the great J Mascis (Dino Jr.). He seems to have left the garden for long enough […]
Samples used by Panda Bear on Person Pitch
As the title suggests, this video is a run through of some of the samples used by Panda Bear on his album, Person Pitch. With the new Panda Bear album, Tomboy, just […]
Dan Deacon – Button Factory
Dan Deacon is back in town! He plays the Dublin Button Factory, on May 8th with tickets at a pretty decent €20 here. He’s fresh from working with Francis Ford Coppola on the sound track for ‘Twixt […]
New Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys new single, ‘Make some noise’. They still sound pretty good if you ask me! And in case you haven’t seen it, here’s the trailer for the new Beastie Boys 30 […]
It would be a sin to go to the Cinema, on a sunny day like this…
Cold Fish is liked by the Times, who says it ‘unforgiving swipes at societal sicknesses and national flaws’, the Guardian says ‘freaky, but is far too long and wearying’. I guess I’ll […]
Jane Says…
You may already know this, but Jane’s Addiction will release a new album in August, titled ”The Great Escape Artist”. They’ve already annonced a limited number of European festival hows, which will […]
Record Store Day – Tower Records
Record Store day (16th April) is an event to get people back into those stores that they used to frequent, before the internet existed. I read an interview with one record store […]
Gig Guide 7-04-11
09/04/11 The Unthanks – Vicar St – Sat 09/04/11 Airborne Toxic Event – Vicar St. – Sat 10/04/11 The Low Anthem – Vicar St – Sun 13/04/11 J Mascis – Whelans – […]
Marlay Park
My 2 year old nephew Sean gets very excited any time anyone mentions Marlay Park. He sees it is a world of excitement and adventure to him, which is unsurpassed. Now, you can […]
2 Concert Packages from Foggy
A variety of ‘deals’ on tickets.ie at the moment, thanks to foggy notions. Basically you save about 50% if you buy the tickets together instead of apart. Some good things in there, […]
