Congrats to Jape, as he’s a lovely person. I met him on the stairs of the Button Factory about a year ago, and he stopped to let me get past. A well […]
Choice Music Prize Winner – Jape!
Movies – 09-03-12
I took a break from our regular view of what’s what in movie land, as I had to visit the sick and lame last week. One thing I did learn though, was […]
Music for Computer Games
It’s over a year since we were featured on the WordPress homepage with our Music for Computer Games post. That post was about an indie game called Minecraft which had absolutely beautiful […]
Choice Music Prize
The choice music prize is held later today, and we await with baited breath to find out what 11 randomly picked music heads think is the best Irish album of this year. […]
Tricky and Topley-Bird reunite
Tricky and Topley-Bird recorded four albums together, with Maxinquaye being the best known of the lot. They’re playing together on three occasions in late April, in Bristol, Manchester and London. The last […]
An old friend – Red House Painters: Old Ramon
Did you ever have a band you really liked that put out consistently good records but at some point you just stopped listening? I’ve found I have done this with a few […]
Electric Picnic line up announced
Hard to ignore this one, as it’s pretty damn good. Will I actually go this year? Hmm. 31st of August to the 2nd of Sept, in Stradbally as ever. Good bands on […]
Dead Can Dance – Grand Canal Theatre
Have to say, I never really got into Dead Can Dance, but maybe there is still time. Maybe they are the thing that has been missing from my life all these years, […]
Peter Broderick – itstartshear.com
Sing it with me now, ‘h t t p : / / itstartshear.com’, it’s a catchy chorus, isn’t it? The type of thing that lodges in your brain, and you just can’t […]
Is Rocket Juice and the Moon the stupidest name for a band ever?
Damon Albarn, Flea and Tony Allen’s new band is called ‘Rocket juice and the moon’ which is just a rubbish name, but should we hold that against them? Possibly. I’m pretty sure […]
Movies – 24-02-12 -Margaret
A couple of good movies this week, and then lots of average ones. Margaret seems an odd one, with various legal disputes about what cut we would end up seeing delaying it’s […]
Videodrome: Kool Music 5 – Running Back to Everyone
Haunting late night soundscape with an equally evocative accompanying video. Kool Music is Jasper Baydala and this is a pretty mesmerising track. Directed by Emily Kai Bock.
M Ward Returns – A Wasteland Companion
M Ward used to be someone I was excited about, but somewhere around the time he started hanging out with zooey deschanel, I stopped getting excited. Thankfully, he’s back by himself, with […]
Whitney Huston – A Tribute
We have been quiet since the death of Whitney, mostly due to our grieving process. It’s sad to see a legend pass, but we’re dealing with our pain, and hope it will […]
Forbidden Fruit – 2012
Yes, it’s back and it’s bigger! The festival returns to Kilmainham for it’s second year, and is now a three day event, from the 2-4th of June. All the details are here, […]
Hipsters – Example 1
A hipster walks into a bar and says “This bar sucks, it’s full of hipsters”… Ah, the plight of the hipster. Inspired by Morgan’s post about the worst bands of all time, […]
Worst Bands Ever…
Always an interesting discussion, and for me an enjoyable one. Personally I’m not sure how any such list can exclude The Cranberries. Anyway, this has a couple of entries to upset the […]
Movies – 17-02-12 – JDIFF
Movie fever has hit Dublin, with the Film Festival in full swing today. There’s also some good deals here for the next hour and ten minutes! It’s 1 to 3 everyday and […]
Play & Record – A record a day, every day in 2012
Play & Record is writing about a record (on vinyl) every day in 2012. In their own words: “Each day I will post a photo or several of the record’s packaging (which is […]
David Pajo – Workmans club
Just did my gig guide the other day, and then I see that David Pajo (Papa M) is playing the Workmans club on May 27th! Don’t think the tickets are on sale […]
Jameson Dublin…. Film… JDIFF
God, it is a long title, could they not have got something a bit snappier? Anyway, the Film Festival starts in Dublin today, with all details here. As with all these things, […]
Gig Guide – 16-02-12
I think this gets later every month! I must set a date and then just do it every month. Would make sense. New additions worth a mention include… Aidan Moffat and Bill […]
New Irish Music – Deaf Joe
I must admit, I only checked this guy out as I thought he was Mumbling Deaf Ro, who had dropped the mumbles. Is Ireland really big enough for a Deaf Ro and […]
Sharon Van Etten – Whelans
Sharon Van Etten is coming to town, for supposedly the first time! She’ll be playing Whelans on Friday May 18th. We mentioned her here before when she sang on the National’s lovely […]
Sad news for live music fans
The Tripod and Crawdaddy have closed, with various reports that the venue has been sold. By all accounts, it will be set up as competition to Copper Face Jacks, I presume on […]
Movies – 10-02-12 – The Muppets
Another week of good news, as not only is there a new Muppet movie on the streets, but it’s also meant to be good! The strange thing is that most of the […]
Lenny Simply Rules!
There’s Lenny fever in the air, with the new Leonard Cohen album hitting the streets. There’s a couple of cover version albums doing the rounds, just to remind us of how good […]
Shlohmo – Bad Vibes & Vacation EP
Released last year, Bad Vibes by Shlohmo would probably have snuck into my top 10 of the year. It’s rarely been off rotation the last week. It kinda just gets under your […]
The Amazing Spiderman… again!
Ok, it looks pretty good, but I can’t help but feel we just saw this movie! Can Hollywood keep rebooting these franchises? Surely they should wait a few years before they kick […]
No More Workhorse 