Brontis’s new album opens with a track called ‘Sparse Audience’, which isn’t some resigned comment on the last year without live music, but there’s a story behind it. A big story too — it’s a […]
Author: Conor McCaffrey
The Slits kicking against the pricks on Typical Girls (1979)
When The Slits formed in London in 1976 they couldn’t have been any more a-Typical of the punk scene at the time — which was a lot more reductive than the history books let on. […]
Autumns’ industrial strength EBM – Found It
Christian Donaghey knows his way round a nihilistic album title. In the last few years as Autumns, he’s released Pissing Away My Youth, You’re Not an Artist, You’re a Dickhead, and Take Your Leather Gloves […]
Crazy P Soundsystem play ‘escape room meets Boiler Room’
Billed as “Escape room meets Boiler Room”, this virtual illegal rave series is an ironic take on the lockdown party. Running from February 10 to March 27, it’s a series of live stream DJ gigs […]
Bicep staying in to go out
Around this time four years ago, aka an ancient golden era of human contact and music louder than your laptop speaker, Bicep were launching their debut album at District 8 in Dublin’s Tivoli Theatre. As […]
Blurring the lines at the Bang on a Can Marathon
Over the past three decades, New York ensemble Bang On a Can have made a name blurring the lines between minimalist composition, jazz and avant-garde rock. They have released and performed many of their own […]
Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye – 50 years of words and music
Proto-punk icon Patti Smith is having a special celebration in the early hours of tonight/tomorrow morning. The New York singer-songwriter, poet, activist and all-round legend is marking “Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye: 50 Years of […]
Always read the label: Ruptured Records (Beirut)
Embracing disruption with Ziad Nawfal, the DJ and radio host soundtracking the Lebanese underground since the 1990s
All the right noises: January 2021
Soundtrack to filing that month away…
Manslaughter 777’s rumbling dub explorations
When you put two drummers together from the extreme metal and drone composition ends of the spectrum, the dub music they come up with won’t be the chilled-out cosmic kind. Manslaughter 777 is a new […]
Skin in the game: IKOQWE – pele
Angolan hip-hop duo IKOQWE “urge you to to learn how to love… skin is to be felt”.
Always Read the Label: Rua Sound/Foxy Jangle
Rua Sound co-founder Rob Flynn on the label’s explorations in jungle, drum & bass, grime, footwork and hip-hop
Let’s get grindcore done: Midrift Guillotine – Dig Up Thatcher and Burn Her Bones EP
If you really fuckin hate the Tories, a self-satisfied Owen Jones column just won’t cut it. Have this eight-track petrol bomb of seditionist splatter grindcore instead.
Hybrasil still keeping it very techno on new album ten
It’s tough releasing a techno album right now, when there’s a distinct lack of sweaty basements and jacked-up sound rigs to test it out live — but Irish producer Will Kinsella aka Hybrasil hasn’t held […]
Another ‘new normal’ – Eurosonic festival starts on your laptop tonight
In any other January, most of us are hibernating for good reason — after a few weeks of indulgence and wallet trashing. We don’t have a choice this year, though, we’re all hibernating together, trying […]
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