GZA/GENIUS: The Sugar Club, Dublin, Sunday, Monday & Tuesday, €27.50 The number of side projects, solo albums and guest appearances in the Wu-Tang Clan universe is head-melting, but GZA’s 1995 album Liquid Swords is one […]
Public Image Ltd is John Lydon’s real legacy
In an interview recently, John Lydon somewhat ambitiously told me he’d been in the music game for over 40 years – and he’s still got 40 years left. And even though for many he’ll always […]
Slum Village lead the Irish gigs highlighter
SLUM VILLAGE, Monroes Live, Galway, Thursday, €20; The Sugar Club, Dublin, Friday week, €20 Detroit act Slum Village have one of the richest legacies in underground hip-hop, as the late MC and genius producer J […]
Channel hopping: Five reasons to hit La Route du Rock 2018
Too often, festivals boast of their idyllic settings, when the big reveal is actually a fenced-off stately home, fairy light forest trails and installations not much better than a load of dream catchers. We hit […]
Jimmy Cliff interview: ‘I wanted to accomplish a lot of things in this lifetime’
Few artists can boast about changing the face of music, but Jimmy Cliff was there at the crossroads at two points in reggae’s growth into a global movement. In 1972, Cliff starred in the ‘first […]
Ariel Pink leads the Irish gigs highlighter
ARIEL PINK: Button Factory, Dublin, Thursday, €22 Ariel Pink says his work is “a weird art experiment”, which is the most perfect description for the genre-flitting left-field indie hero. The LA singer-songwriter has released 12 […]
Starter for 10: Jack Hairbrain goes digging for records in São Paulo
From the Amazon rainforest to a thousand miles of tropical beaches; the metropolis of Sao Paulo; Pele, Socrates, Josimar; Rio-bloody-de-Janeiro — and to think I grew up never really being that bothered about Brazil. There […]
