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 […]
Record Store Day – Tower Records
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, […]
Think you can wait…
The new song from the National ‘Think you can wait’ leads me in two directions… The wonderful lilting backing vocals on the song are from Sharon Van Etten, who is someone worth checking […]
Lost Irish #2 – Engine Alley
Engine Alley are straight out of Kilkenny, hard to believe that they ever came from that particular spot. They had three albums, which is two more than i remember, and may well […]
New Kate Bush
I’ve always had a soft spot for Kate Bush, as she was cool and mystifying when I was very, very small! She’s releasing a new album called Director’s Cuts with cover versions […]
4 star movie reviews – 1*04*11
Spring is in the air, the birds are singing in the trees, and due to their abduction of an hour last weekend, it’s starting to feel a lot like summer. This has […]
It’s the Weekend!
It’s the weekend and here’s Weekend by The Sea and Cake! Were your childhood weekends this cool? Is it summer yet?
Irish Electronic Music, Donnacha Costello
For some reason I’m going back over music from ages ago. I think it’s a hangover from our end-of-year lists of 2010 where I think the feeling was that it wasn’t a […]
Look at the people cooking. Look at the people eating. This is entertainment.
Hmm, I’d usually advocate a bit more structure in an article, but I arrived home from work to be made sit in front of a programme about people cooking competitively (eh?), so […]
Music for Babies #7
The music for babies series has taken a break of late, mostly as we’d run out of ideas! Merill Garbus uses the name of Tune Yards for her musical adventures. She released […]
More Random Junk
Showtime are responsible for lots of good things, like Dexter and Weeds. They commissioned a bunch of animated shorts recently, which are worth watching. 7 in total, 2 of which are below, the rest […]
New Music
A couple of folky people I’ve been listening to quite a bit recently. Josh T Pearson is a Texan, but a nice one! He played in the workman’s club over the weekend, […]
Oldham covers Sufjan
The Bonnie Prince himself has covered one of Sufjan’s tracks from ‘Seven Swans’. The full of Sufjan’s 2004 album is being covered, and its all in aid of a good cause, Susan G. […]
Lost Irish No. 1 – Where are they now!
Our extensive team of crack investigators used unusual methods such as ‘google’ and ‘wikipedia’ to track down the elusive Jimi Shields, and here’s what they found. After leaving Rollerskate Skinny in ’94, […]
Trashcan Sinatras Session
I must admit to being quite nerdy about the Trashcan’s,which is a little odd as they are a bands that no one really seems to care about! They’re on tour in the […]
The Universal Sigh
Ok, I take all the negative things I said back, the Universal Sigh (the free newspaper released by Radiohead) sounds like a nice idea. It has artwork, poems and short stories, which […]
Wisdom Teeth
More Don Hertzfeldt. They are just so good.
Secret Soundz
Fence Records may have passed your conscious due to the consistently pleasing output from James Yorkston over the last number of years (well worth checking out if you haven’t). Anyhow, I’ve been […]
Lost Music – Irish Edition No. 1
Irish music has benefitted, but also suffered greatly at the hands of U2 and the shadow they’ve cast for the last 30 odd years. This series of ‘Lost Music’ (which I sort […]
JDset Update
The sad news is if you didn’t already receive a confirmation email, you didn’t win tickets! They went out on the 22nd, so check your spam filter, just in case. I’ll be […]
Tom Waits Induction
Tom Waits being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Neil Young. It’s 13 minutes long and has lots of things I’d never seen before. Go watch!
Pitchfork to screen final LCD gig
The wonderful Pitchfork (where John gets his musical taste from) are screening the final ever LCD soundsystem gig live! It’s meant to be a three hour long show, with lots of special […]
Confused Movie news – 25-03-11
How can this be a good movie? How can a documentary about a trip to see cave paintings in France in 3D be in any way worthwhile? ‘The Cave of forgotten dreams’ […]
Bill Callahan – Apocalypse
Yeah, good Smog news: New Album – Apocalypse is out in April New Gig – May 5th Academy Dublin Ireland New Song – ‘Baby’s Breath’ Just listened to the song, and there’s no […]
Another publicity stunt from Radiohead
Very exciting news from Radiohead, they’re giving away a free news paper called ‘The Universal Sigh’ on Monday the 28th of March. They will be given out in most major cities in […]
New Fleet Foxes
The Fleet Foxes are offering us more of the same, but for some reason, I still quite like it. Maybe it’s just because this is their second album and not their fourth […]
Lidya the Tattooed Lady
While discussing global politics and in particular the recent events in the middle east, in the impossibly long queue for Patrick Wolf last night, this song came up, and I just have to […]
No More Workhorse 