With Geoff Barrow’s other band Portishead without an album since 2008 and with no immediate plans to tour properly, he’s once again on the road with BEAK>, for some sleek krautrock analogue electronics. Too many […]
Category: Gig previews
Dan Deacon goes down to the wires
To this day, one of the most joyous gigs I’ve been to was Dan Deacon in 2007 in the sadly long defunct Crawdaddy, downstairs in Tripod. It’s been too long. The Baltimore electronic artist takes […]
Schoolboy Q’s Crash course
As a former Crips member, Schoolboy Q often veers into gangsta rap checklist territory, but it always shoots off as authentic. The first track on his 2019 album CrasH Talk is even called Gang Gang, […]
070 Shake gives up the Ghost
Still only 22, New Jersey rapper and producer 070 Shake was one of the artists who got the most out of Kanye West’s infamous Wyoming recording sessions last year. Even before the torturous roll-out of […]
Lee Field has 50-odd years of grit in his throat
With more than five decades of wear and tear and grit coating his voice, soul veteran Lee Fields has a greater story than most young chancers — or many of the oldies for that matter. […]
Face To Face with Dublin Bowie Festival 2020
In the four years since David Bowie’s death, tributes have stopped feeling like a wake, and rather a celebration of maybe the greatest pop music icon of them all. As we’re hoovering up pine needles, […]
And So I Watch You From Afar put a lid on their debut album
And So I Watch You From Afar opened their 2009 debut album with a track called Set Guitars To Kill, and then set about doing that over the next 10 years. The Northern act are […]
Dave Clarke: Still kicking the doors in
The Baron of Techno returns to Dublin tonight to knock some shape into your Advent calendar with some DM boot kickdrums. Get all your shopping done before tonight — it’ll be a late one, and […]
Scary Eire: ‘The return of the Celtic Funk Warriors’
With Irish hip-hop going through a commercial and critical golden era, here’s a chance to catch the original OGs for a Christmas party tomorrow night. Scary Eire laid the groundwork 25 years ago, as the […]
The Pharcyde re-upping their Bizarre Ride
The Sugar Club has been hosting hip-hop hall of famers for years, and tomorrow it’s The Pharcyde’s turn. The Compton crew are the latest act to take classic albums on the road, with 1992’s Bizarre […]
Ronnie Spector: ‘The Original Bad Girl of Rock’n’Roll’
The ‘Original Bad Girl of Rock’n’Roll’, Ronnie Spector and the Ronettes are behind some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century. The 1963 hit Be My Baby was voted by Billboard as No1 […]
Lizzo: Cuz she loves you…
The first Monday in November was a predictably drizzly and grimly grey affair in Dublin, but one corner of the city was sending out all the positivity, as Lizzo became the latest figure to be […]
Giggs’ Big Bad self
After releasing his debut album in 2008, South Londoner Giggs is bordering on being considered an OG of second wave grime. Blockbuster hook-ups and features with the likes of Stormzy, Drake and M.I.A. have helped […]
Imperial Wax: When you just can’t give up
Some bands carry on great things after the death of a singer — AC/DC and Mayhem for starters, but when that singer is Mark E Smith, one of the true singular visionaries of the last […]
Daughters: May induce vomiting
Faith No More frontman Mike Patton’s label Ipecac is named after the drug that induces forceful vomiting, and hardcore noise act Daughters are one of the sickest bands on the roster. Ipecac roped in the […]
Moo Kid 