A music blog from Ireland.
Monday, November 29th, 2010
Really excited to post this – the album artwork has been sitting in my promos folder for weeks now since I saw a thread on Thumped announcing that Richer Than Astronauts would be launching their debut album on 3 December. Some preview tracks went up on MySpace a while ago but now it’s here, I’m
Monday, November 29th, 2010
Well it’s been two years since I first heard Not Squares doing their zany thing and boy, it’s been a trip following their developments as they went from guys with a crazy musical idea to guys with...
Monday, November 29th, 2010
Start as you mean to go on – this superchilled Monday morning has many weekenderpeople already looking forward to this show in Whelans on Friday night. Support comes from Yeh Deadlies and We Are Losers…this will be...
Friday, November 26th, 2010
In today’s Irish Times supplement The Ticket, several music writers contribute their top picks iof the year. It’s good reading and the sheer abundance of names in all colour, styles and genres gives real weight to the...
Friday, November 26th, 2010
Lampshades and trampolines….I love this band. They’re as mad as a box of schizophrenic phrogs. This is the video for I Deal In Bits And Bobs taken from Grand Pocket Orchestra’s deadly new album The Ice Cream,...
Friday, November 26th, 2010
A bit saddened logging into Facebook to see that a group has been set up in protest of the axing of Roddie Cleere’s Irish music radio show on WLR FM. Lots of people know the guy as...
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
Gonna be HEFTO. GUILTY OPTICS – WHITE TEETH by OOAL C!TIES-KRAKATOA by OOAL Recently, the Stripey Jumper known as Eoghan O’Sullivan who blogs at The Point Of Everything had some interviews with Guilty Optics and C!ties ahead...
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
This is deadly. At first I thought Milan Jay was electronic with his free Mellow Funk album. Then he seemed to about-face and pick up the slack with a banging double single Sono/We Believe. Now…this new EP...
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Spurred on by this beautiful video of Cinnte by Arthur O’Regan , I’ve escaped ‘The million/billion/trillion Fear’ this morning by delving into the lush soundscapes of Nouveaunoise‘s debut album Paraphrase Accolade. It’s an album of huge proportions...