I’ve always had a strained relationship with Opera, in that i basically think it’s pants. Especially sopranos, whose whole vocal range seems to do what nails on a blackboard does for most […]
Broken Social Sopranos
The Walking Dead Pilot
Ok, I’ve seen it, i had to cheat a little via the internet, but I’ve watched the first episode of the Walking Dead as discussed here. I have slightly mixed emotions about […]
Tower Records
Tower Records on Wicklow street is getting on a bit. Well, not as bad as some, but its 17th birthday is this month. I have heard that its now an entirely independent […]
The Umbrella Academy
I first stumbled accross the Umbrella Academy, when i was looking at what won the Eisner awards (The Oscars for comics) a few years ago. It won best limited series, after a brief […]
Battle of the Bands!
Tough choice for next Thursday, with three good gigs on the one night. I think I went to all three bands last time they were in town, so its a little unlucky […]
Cinema Reviews
Just checking the new releases this week, and nothing much of any interest on at the moment! A lot of three star movies released, and that just means ‘wait till dvd release’ […]
The National play Dingle?
Yep! Strange as it sounds, but not really that strange. It’s part of ‘Other Voices’, the RTE show that is filmed in St. James’ Church, Dingle. Other acts include Marina and the […]
The Pixies La La Love You…
More free junk on the Pixie mail list today, which you can get here. Its 145 MB’s of a show, which is slowly downloading at the moment! Its from a live show […]
Tron Legacy
There’s been talk about this for a while now, and I’ve resisted posting it. Daft Punk are doing the music to the new Tron Legacy movie, which opens in the states on […]
Animal Collective curate ATP
Animal Collective have been given the nod to curate ATP in Minehead, from May 13th to 15th. Not my favorite choice in recent years, while I do like their music, they are […]
Lykke Li
I will always remember our failed attempt to see Lykke Li, in Madrid, as 10 ish guys (ok, it was a stag party) turned up around 10.30 at the venue, to see […]
Iron and Wine
Iron and Wine are set to return to Dublin for a date in the Olympia on March 14th of next year. I was at their last show in the Ambassador a few […]
Warpaint
This lot played in Crawdaddy on Saturday, and while I missed it myself, there’s lots of bloggers getting very excited about it! Sounds a good gig, and i like what i hear […]
Marissa Nadler
The weird and wonderful Marissa Nadler is in town again. She’s playing ATP, and is stopping off in Dublin before it, to play Crawdaddy on the 1st of December. It should be […]
CMJ Music
College Music Journal is a music events and publishing company based in New York. They have an on line magazine here, which has a variety of music news and downloads. They also have an […]
A couple of Pixies
Two Pixies downloads, one is to do with the Interpol thing, mentioned earlier, it includes a video of them playing la la love you, which is kinda fun also! Its available here, […]
Music for Computers #3
A nice twist on the average soundtrack was Fallout 3, recommended to us by Arden K. As Arden says: “Fallout is interesting because it takes place after full-scale nuclear war, so the […]
Music for Computers #2
We were delighted to the response to our Music for Computers #1 post, which had over 4,000 hits, and 78 comments to date. It featured on the wordpress home page, which is […]
Pixies giving away Interpol
I just got a mail from the Pixie mail out list, offering free Interpol tracks. A bit odd, but always nice to get a few free bits. They are available here http://interpolnyc.com/pixies/ […]
A Game of you – Dublin Theatre Festival
Dublin Theatre festival finished yesterday, and had lots of interesting work in it as ever. ‘Playing the Dane’ by Pan Pan (where the audience gets to decide who will play Hamlet!), Phaedra by […]
Gruff Rhys
Gruff has been wearing many hats in the last few years, as the lead singer of the Super Furry Animals, Neon Neon and various other side projects. He’s returning to Dublin to […]
Music for Computer Games – follow up
Well, it’s been an eventful weekend for the No More Workhorse gang with the blog being featured on the homepage of Wordpress.com. We’re pretty excited about that and we’re delighted we got […]
Villager’s Session
Lovely three song session on Sun tv (yes, that Sun!), with Conor J O’Brien singing a few of his better known songs, as well as a version of Tightrope by Janelle Monae (who […]
Sage Francis via Dan Le Sac
Sage Francis is part of the rap world that intersects with poetry, performing regularly at poetry slams as part of the providence (rhode Island) team. While I’d say a lot of poetry […]
Music for Computer Games
Following on from our ‘Music for Babies’ series, we thought we’d have a look at ‘Music for Computer games’ next. I’m not one to play computer games but I recently came across […]
Chilly Peppers
Lots of bloggers are getting excited about the announcement that Chilly Gonzales is bringing his “Piano Talk” Show to the Sugar Club. Tickets are €19.85 before rip off fees. He has worked […]
Pinkerton Extras
Radio station 107.7 (The End) are hosting a few songs from Weezer’s extras and B-sides compilation “Death of False Metal”. These songs are taken from probably their best album “Pinkerton”, and not […]
Dancing about Architecture
I’ve seen the “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture” quote variously attributed to Miles Davis, Elvis Costello, and Frank Zappa. Who said it? I’ve no idea, these people think its […]
Science week loves Eno
It must be the hardest job of marketing experts the world over to make Science seem cool, but I guess that’s the aim of Science Week, which has a series of lectures […]
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