Body and Soul continue to get it just right, with a few new additions that are increasing the temptation. Spiritualized, Django Django and Hollie Cook are added to the list. Hollie is […]
Mega-city blues! Music for Mega-city
This ticks a lot of boxes for me, so thought it was worth a mention. Geoff Barrow (Portishead) and Ben Salisbury (random soundtrack composer) have a new album inspired by Mega-city, the […]
Morning Benders = POP ETC.
I’ll let these guys speak for themselves: As soon as we had landed in London people started asking us about our band name. “What does ‘Bender’ mean to you?” people would ask. […]
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins
The Foggy one is up to his old tricks again, with a tasty gig for July and something to look forward to. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins are playing in Vicar Street […]
Old man who loves Cab Calloway!
This is all over the place today, and thanks to the wonderful Judith for the link. It’s a quite wonderful video of the affect music has on an old man, who is […]
Triskel @ Christchurch – Neil Cowley Trio
I stumbled upon this in the Irish times, which is as good a spot as any I guess, but it seems to be going on for a while, so I’ve possibly missed […]
Rock and Roll and Alcohol – JD Roots
I guess since ever since I saw Layne Staley of Alice in Chains in the SFX, when one of the many stage diving fans got too close to his bottle of booze, […]
Sun Kil Moon – Among the Leaves
Mark Kozelek and co are back with a new album, called ‘Among the Leaves’ which will be released on Mark’s own label on the 29th of May. Here’s a taster, which features […]
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 […]
Music to work to: Lucky Dragons – Shape Tape
I know we only mentioned these guys last night, but on further digging I found this piece and it’s a work lifesaver. Released last year it is a “90 minute tonal workout […]
Music for Babies #5
For our 100th post (yes, where does the time go!), we’re dealing with a man that is half crazy professor, half kid’s entertainer. His gigs are the stuff of legends, and mostly […]
Harmonies
The Harmonic series of gigs around Dublin are getting better and better! They’ve now added Titus Andronicus, Willard Grant Conspiracy, The Acorn, Polvo and Pete Molinari. I’ve never really got into Titus, […]
Music for Babies #4
I had vaguely heard that They might be giants had made an album for kids, but had no idea of the scale of their interest in the baby scene! They’ve taken this […]
Workman’s Revolution
No doubt of the new cool venue in Dublin, with the amount of good gigs on there over the next few months! I think I’ll be going there quite a bit over […]
Parenthetical Girl
There have been many discussions on how to stop people just downloading your music. People just have Trent Reznor have suggested that people need to give their customer something they feel is […]
Music for Babies #3
This post should really be entitled Music for Babies (and Adults) #3. I have long been a big fan of the husband & wife team of minimalist composers, Shawn James Seymour and […]
PVT remixes
PVT (formerly Pivot) are a band that changed their name to something that people can’t pronounce, so they’ll just call them by the same name they called them previously. Why did they […]
Music for Babies #1
At the request of Candepop, I’m doing a few songs/ artist that are suitable for the less mature members of our society. Almost all of my friends are doing the baby thing […]
Cheers for Beer
Well, maybe not beer, but stout anyway. Guiness’s big marketing day is back, with Arthur’s day returning on September 23rd. There’s lots of gigs on around the city, but I don’t think there’s […]
Walkmen Return
Last time the Walkmen were in town, Roughan Sheedy very rudely organised his wedding for the same day. I’m well aware that he did this on purpose and that it was clearly […]
The National
The National preformed on Minnesota Public Radio, the other day, and there’s a very nice session lurking here, with a new song also! The new song is a called ‘You are a […]
Unofficially Offical
According to most of twitter, and also the Irish Times, Arcade Fire are returning to Dulbin to play the O2 on the 5th of Dec. The truly shocking thing is the price […]
Micah
Micah P Hinson returns to Dublin, to Crawdaddy. The video link below doesn’t really capture how odd he is, but it does capture how lovely his sound is! He has had two […]
Fionn and the Mice
There’s always a glut of new gigs announced once i do a gig guide! always the way. Anyway, here’s two more. Fionn Regan in that odd new venue the workman’s club, as […]
Frightened Rabbit among others…
Got around to finally updating the Gig list. Nothing too amazing added to the list, other than Frightened Rabbits, down the end there, which I’m quite looking forward to (even though its […]
Live music on sound cloud.
The wonderful Nialler9 has a link to the sleigh bells concert from Primavera on his site here. The equally wonderful and in some ways more so, Cormac sent me this link, if you […]
The Walkmen – Lisbon
Their new album isn’t out till Oct 8th, but you can download a song from it for the mere cost of an email address, of which you probably have about four thousand. […]
One Summer’s Eve
A nice little oddity of an outdoor festival in Temple Bar is taking place next week, in Meeting House Square. It sounds fun, with a good line up of Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, […]
No More Workhorse 