The heaviest gig of the week is happening in Index tonight – and that’s after grindcore reprobates Pig Destroyer played Voodoo Lounge a few days ago. UK producer Ansome bangs out machine-tooled nosebleed industrial techno […]
See behind the Skee Mask…
Munich producer Brian Muller released one of the most subtle and majestic electronic albums of the year with Compro. It’s an album you can approach from various angles — just as instrumental versions of rap […]
The compelling, weird concoction of Warmduscher
With core members from Fat White Family and Paranoid London, Warmduscher take that initial psychedelic post-punk acid house concoction and stretch it in even weirder directions. The band’s debut album Welcome To Whale City is […]
Arrested Development: the Atlanta hip-hop crew that ruled before trap
Some 20-odd years before Atlanta would become the centre of the hip-hop world with trap acts like Migos, Gucci Mane, Wacka Flocka Flame, Arrested Development were flying the flag for Southern hip-hop in the state. […]
Make it Rain: Slayer live in Dublin review
Slayer just kicked off the European leg of their final tour the same way they’ve played every gig in the last 35 years – a 20-song headbutt and a realisation there’s no metal band anywhere […]
U2 take more risks than you think
For a band weighed down by so much baggage and split opinion, U2’s reputation has held up in the live arena for decades. You forget they’re a band who take plenty of risks, while many […]
Marshall Jefferson still getting on like a house on fire
Ireland is a “hub of creative minds, unusual characters, ambitious messers and melodic beats”, according to the organisers of the first ever Dublin Music Conference. The three-day electronic music showcase runs next February, with international […]
Johnny Marr: Don’t mention the war
As the ratio of Johnny Marr coolness to Morrissey shit talk rises exponentially, the idea of a Smiths reunion gets even more ludicrous as the years go on. But while Morrissey might cause a collective […]
Bicep taking it beyond the clubs
It’s been an extraordinary year for Belfast duo Bicep, who have made the leap from techno clubs to theatre venues on the back of their 2017 debut album, which joins the dots between techno house, […]
All the right noises: October 2018 in 20 tracks
UUUU – Electric Blanket (from s/t EP) UUUU’s debut s/t was one of Moo Kid’s albums of 2017, and the follow-up EP takes the experimental project into further slithery territories. The four U’s are Graham […]
Winter is coming: Metropolis 2018 breakdown
VILLAGERS Conor O’Brien’s Villagers’ live set-up has been transformed with the release of his brilliant electronic-based fourth album The Art of Pretending to Swim. At the recent Other Voices weekender in Ballina there were added […]
Still making Sense of it all: The restless art of David Byrne
After the release of the 1984 Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense, David Byrne would never be able to play another regular rock show. Jonathan Demme’s document of Talking Heads’ Speaking In Tongues tour […]
Letting the days go by: Talking Heads in 10 songs
One of the most iconic bands to emerge from the late-70s New Wave and post-punk era was also one of the weirdest. You’ll know Talking Heads’ go-to songs like ‘Psycho Killer’, ‘Road To Nowhere’ and […]
IDLES: giving landfill indie a kick in the teeth
Bristol punks IDLES are one of the few English guitar lad bands who are punching up through the underground with something to say — helping to finally banish second- and third-hand indie bands still waiting […]
Same as he ever was: When David Byrne played the Galway Arts Festival (2004)
Any anoraks out Byrne-watching on July 26 might have bumped into a stranger in a strange land. According to his online tour journal, the singer took his fold-out bike for a ride on Salthill Prom […]
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