A music blog from Ireland.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Founded just two years ago, free web-service Bandcamp has become a benchmark of musicians’ new-found freedom on the web. Super Extra Bonus Party were quick off the mark to release their remix album Appetite For Reconstruction via the website in summer 2008, at a stage when giving an album away for free was still considered a
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Over on AU now; only Logikparty smarties have the answers…. I don’t think being described as avid fans of no wave is misleading? We are!” explains Benni. “We like lots of different types of music and have...
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Delighted to bring you this brand-new Solar Bears track, Bear Mountain, due to feature on a split EP with Bryce Isbell aka FUR (Waaga) later this year. It would be flighty to make comparisons to other electronicish...
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
So, no more shall I think of Chirps as a ‘young’ band – their album Future Static Prologue is crackling for release and so begins their month-long bar mitzvah party. Kicking off tomorrow night in the Lower...
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Axis of are a bunch of spirited punks from the north coast. I saw them play for the first time just after Christmas 2006 in a blizzard-sheltered pub outside Portrush in Derry and was really impressed by...
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Up now, on Facebook near you – lotsbutnottoomany pics from Popical Island‘s compilation launch in Whelans on Saturday. I especially like this shot of Feed The Bears. It was their final gig and by all accounts Ireland’s...
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Love the colours in this shot of Hunter-Gatherer performing on Saturday night’s Body & Soul last weekend, taken by Sara Devine. The ladysnapper went off to Meath to take photos for State and judging by...
Monday, June 21st, 2010
Another whopper from Zissou – the inimitable Shunk by Adebisi Shank. As you may know, the second coming is nigh. Not the paltry messianic revistation of the Jehovah sort you’d set your dogs on but real, live,...