East Harlem. Glad to say it sounds pretty good!
New Beirut Single
Movies – 03-06-11
Ok, a sad admission of guilt. I secretly hope that all the X-men movies won’t be trash, so that I can sneak off to them at some stage, and make my inner […]
Jeff Mangum Whelans
Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel is curating his own ATP in early December, but what is he doing the Wednesday beforehand, I hear you ask? He’s playing in Whelans is the obvious answer! […]
Dave McKean gets Sexy!
This sounds an odd one, but hopefully it’ll be as good as his previous efforts. Dave McKean is about to release his first major work since Cages. This new graphic novel is called […]
Q Tip – Button Factory
This news has me all excited! Much better than any aging rock star (Moz has added an extra date in Vicar st, Sat July 30th), it’s an aging rapper coming to town! […]
Jeff Buckley – 14 years!
Hard to believe that Jeff died 14 years ago today. It seems not that long about, but also a life time. I remember it as it was just before I was starting […]
Gil Scott Heron – RIP
This seems to have really come out of the blue, as he was recording and touring until very recently. His friend Doris C Nolan confirmed that he died in St Luke’s hospital […]
Soul Picnic
Dublin City Soul Festival takes place this weekend, and you can find out the details here. I’m surprised it has survived the recession, if i’m being honest, but it’s good news that a few […]
New Movies – 27-05-11
It’s a bit of a slow week at the movies, as I guess no one wants to compete with the Hangover 2! Still, there’s a couple of things worth a mention. ‘Build […]
The Vaselines – Dublin
Even if you think you don’t know anything by the Vaselines, you probably do. Nirvana covered two of their songs, which are ‘Molly’s Lips’ and ‘Jesus doesn’t want me for his sunbeam’. […]
Lost Irish #4 – A house
It’s hard to know what A-house did wrong. They had it all really, smart lyrics, nice guitar lines, gound breaking videos etc. They even received regular air play on Mtv and BBC […]
Morrissey in a nice venue
This might be worthwhile actually. Instead of seeing him in various venues such as fields and stadiums where you can only see him as a blip in the distance, for some reason […]
Mark Eitzel is OK
UPDATE: Some good news, is that Mark Eitzel is co-headlining with the Late Birds in the Great American Music Hall on Saturday, the 10th of Sept 2011. Great to have him back […]
Peter Hook plays Joy Division – Phantom First Friday
This is an odd one really, as it begs the question, can you be a tribute band to yourself? Peter Hook is a former member of Joy Division, and is revisitng his […]
Bonnie Prince Billy doesn’t believe in God
I always feel that I should cover any Bonnie Prince Billy news, seeing as we stole the name of the blog from him. So, to continue in this vein, BPB has released […]
Prince of Malahide
The facts as they now stand: Prince may or may not play Malahide Castle on Saturday July 30. They’re certainly selling tickets for it, so they expect him to show up! I’ve […]
New Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire are releasing a new ‘delux’ version of the Suburbs on June 27th. It features a few new tracks, which are as below. The first one is ‘Speaking in tongues’ which […]
Grizzly Bear Mixtape
Drowned in sound managed to get Grizzly Bear to list the songs that would soundtrack their biopics! A nice notion, and the results are as unique as you would expect. http://drownedinsound.com/news/4142655-mixtape-monday–grizzly-bear-share-the-songs-that-would-soundtrack-their-biopics
Geotic (Baths) Free Downloads
Just saw this link on twitter and thought I’d share it with the world! We’ve mentioned Baths here a few times before, which is the name under which Will Wiesenfeld works. His other project, […]
Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell is an artist and filmmaker who shoots surf movies entirely on 16mm film. Sprout, his second movie is one of my favourite movies of all time (not just surf-related). Campbell […]
Movies – 20-05-11 – Win Win
It may be obvious that I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while, but ‘Win Win’ opens today, which is the new movie by Thomas McCarthy. Thomas’ acting career is […]
Ivor Novello for the Villagers
Another statue for the Villagers, as this time he’s won an Ivor Novello for ‘Best Song Musically And Lyrically’. This statue is of ‘Euterpe’, who for those few that don’t know already (shame […]
Sufjan Stevens – Olympia – 18-05-11
Sufjan Stevens brought is larger than life stage show to the Olympia last night, complete with visuals on screens in front of and behind the band, a variety of stage costumes and […]
Bon Iver – Single and Gig
You can download ‘Calgari’ from the 4AD web site here. It is a synth and vocal based track, that just hasn’t grown on me, no matter how many times I’ve listened to […]
Kites + Snufjam = Lovely
Music: Sufjan Stevens – Movement I: In The Countenance Of Kings
The Illuminated Mixtapes
Some lovingly created playlists with illustrated covers for each. Definitely worth checking out. http://gigawattdesign.com/tunes/index.html
Matmos
Where did they get a name like Matmos from? Wiki has two answers: The name Matmos refers to the seething lake of evil slime beneath the city Sogo in the 1968 film […]
Mister Wonderful by Daniel Clowes – Free Online
Amazon recommended this one to me, with one of those wonderfully accurate mails they send you based on your other purchases, or maybe they just watch my every move, who know! Mister […]
Gig Guide – 14-05-11
It’s quite a battle tonight, between base urges and my higher brain. Should I go to Scout Niblett or should I veg out in front of the TV and watch the two […]
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