Outlier hip-hop/noise label Deathbomb Arc have been “freaking out” over their new signing Dos Monos – a Japanese/Korean hip-hop trio – and here’s the video that’ll explain why. With an initial manifesto to “hijack your […]
This week’s Irish gigs highlighter
DAMO SUZUKI, Grand Social, Dublin, tomorrow, €18. Japanese artist Damo Suzuki is on a never-ending tour as a ‘sound carrier’, summoning decades of experience on the fringes of experimental music. Best known as the vocalist of […]
Shake your Honey-maker at Life Festival this weekend
Life Festival jumps the gun on the bank holiday weekend with the first big weekender of the summer season – while also avoiding the clash next week of Open Ear and Forbidden Fruit and […]
‘It’s not in the algorithms’: Jenny Hval – The Long Sleep
On a recent Nuts and Bolts podcast on the Quietus, Jenny Hval recalled being “heartbroken” at her early live reviews when she’d be described as a singer-songwriter, with all the reductive worthiness the term evokes. […]
Lookin’ good today for BBC Biggest Weekend
When the Biggest Weekend was announced, Beeb bosses claimed it would be “the biggest single music event ever attempted by the BBC”. No pressure then. With Glastonbury taking one of its occasional years off to […]
This Beck and Yeah Yeah Yeahs Dublin gig is an indie-head’s wet dream
As ‘one night only’ promises go, a team-up of Beck and Yeah Yeah Yeahs was a wtf indie wet dream when it was announced last December. Both acts were booked in Europe around the same […]
Satisfaction guaranteed: Rolling Stones at Croke Park review
When the Rolling Stones announced this latest tour, Keith Richards claimed they were here for an even longer haul than we’d imagined. “There’s no stopping us – we’re only getting started,” he reckoned, with a […]
