Dublin electronic production duo Mount Alaska have finally opened up their 2018 account with a remix of Headache Dreams by shoegaze-electronica artist Feather Beds, and it’s their most hypnotic and transcendent release to date. Dublin […]
Author: Conor McCaffrey
March 2018 in 21 tracks
A post-Easter bank holiday comedown is easier to digest when you wash it down with industrial minimalism and techno, cosmic psychedelia, black metal gospel, fist-up hip-hop and a hymn to good ol’ planet Earth from […]
Zeal & Ardor bring the horror blues on Gravedigger’s Chant
Swiss act Zeal & Ardor was the bowel-churning highlight of Eurosonic 2018 – an avant-garde metal project that just might cross over this year, going by the justified hype from outside the regular metal channels. […]
Irish gigs round-up
ACTRESS & MOUNT KIMBIE, Button Factory, Dublin, Tomorrow, €20. Expect a few hours of curveballs as Mount Kimbie and Actress form like a three-headed Voltron and go back-to-back in this rare team-up. Actress, aka UK […]
Loah interview: ‘It’s all just a big human experiment of creating stuff’
After the recent Imagining Ireland showcase at the Barbican in London, the Guardian nailed it in a review by saying “this was Ireland, but not as we are told we know it”. The concert could […]
If you know what’s good for you: The Weetabix skinhead gang stomping all over the 80s
In the ongoing cultural appropriation wars we forget that skinheads got a serious raw deal in the 80s. Firstly, the subculture informed in part by Jamaican reggae and ska was infiltrated by Nazi punks who […]
Gerald Donald morphs into XOR Gate for new solo album Conic Sections
Drexciyan electro conceptualist Gerald Donald has sidestepped his regular aliases and collaborations for a new solo album of abstract electro futurism. The ever-elusive Donald is revered as one half of Detroit electro visionaries Drexciya, and […]
Form an indie Party Line: Belle and Sebastian, 22 years and counting
Through the summer in Ireland there’s a revolving door stream of outdoor gigs to indulge in, and Belle and Sebastian’s headliner at Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens last July went down as one of the most joyous […]
Irish gigs round-up
YOUNG FATHERS, The Academy, Dublin, Wednesday Edinburgh trio Young Fathers have been stumping people for years – especially since winning the Mercury Prize in 2014 with their debut album. Critics had a stab at it by […]
Donal Dineen interview: ‘The middleman is a dope’
The phrase ‘What’s the story?’ may have been turned into shorthand Dublin slang over the years, but it’s a greeting that taps into cliched Irish openness and curiosity: “So, what are you all about?” Telling […]
Kormac goes beyond his Big Band theory for Equivalent Exchange showcase
Over the last few years, Dublin’s St Patrick’s Festival has helped evolve Paddy’s Day beyond the usual broad strokes antics. There’ll still be plenty of shamrock face paint and skulled pints tomorrow, but the cultural […]
A Little Respect for Erasure
Casual Erasure fans may have thought the pop maestros gave up on the party with the title of their last album World Be Gone – and song titles like Oh What A World and Lousy […]
Boom-bap meets dancehall in Bazza Ranks’ Where Would We Be, feat. P.O.A.
Irish dub/reggae producer Bazza Ranks (Dirty Dubsters) has just teamed up with Irish hip-hop crew Prisoners Of Audio for a crossover record that’s an unashamed love letter to music itself. Where Would We Be asks […]
Enter the void: Another Exhibition at the Modern Institute
In a recent interview, Mute Records boss Daniel Miller made a point that “electronic music was more punk than punk rock”, and Powell’s Diagonal label is hammering this point home. Diagonal acts like Consumer Electronics, […]
National treasures: The Gloaming set for another seven nights at the NCH
This is the third year in a row that The Gloaming have had an extended run at Dublin’s National Concert Hall — and if they kept selling tickets they could probably play for a month. […]
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