There’s been a lot of hot air in the last few years about the house revival that’s taken over the charts, festival fields and every shopping centre playlist around Ireland and the UK. In an […]
John Stanier interview: ‘Math rock is a pretty gross term… really unsexy’
Check any random definition of the term ‘math rock’ and Battles will probably pop up somewhere. It’s been a catch-all shorthand term for the band over the last 15 years, with their flitting rhythms, overlapping […]
Glory Days: Six legendary Bruce Springsteen Irish gigs
Born in the USA tour, Slane, June 1985 Bruce’s first ever Irish show was also his first ever outdoor European gig, with an official gate of 60,000 that reportedly swelled to 100,000. A few Slane clips […]
In another shimmer: Pantha du Prince – In an Open Space
German techno producer Pantha Du Prince has just released his new album The Triad, and it’s another production that chimes and glistens in all the right places. The Triad is the follow-up to Hendrik Weber’s […]
Gigs of the week: May 20-26
YESTIVAL, Tivoli Theatre, Dublin, tomorrow, €15/20 This time last year we were in the middle of the marriage referendum campaigns, and there was only really going to be winner. It seemed like every musician and artist […]
Sound of the Singularity: Autechre – Feed1
“Stuff this down your earholes,” is how Tom Ravenscroft introduced this new Autechre track on BBC Radio 6 on Friday night. Feed1 is the first studio track the electronic duo have shared in three years, […]
Gigs of the week: May 13-19
HOT 8 BRASS BAND, Sugar Club, Dublin, tonight and tomorrow, both SOLD OUT There’s always one of your mates banging on about some cover band they saw at a festival doing quirky versions of pop hits. […]
Gigs of the week: May 6-12
A$AP Nast, The Button Factory, Dublin, Tuesday, €15. Promoters Sense have been stressing that this is an over-18s show — maybe expecting a similar crowd of steamboats hip-hop kids trapped outside the Academy for Odd Future a […]
Techno for an answer: Underground Resistance – Panic (1991)
This’ll be a facepalm for vinyl DJs who rage about hipsters buying records without playing them. But last week I found an Underground Resistance 12-inch in a pile and played it for the first time […]
The industrial evolution: Surgical Meth Machine – Tragic Alert
Industrial noise terrorist Al Jourgensen has been on the metal outskirts for 30-odd years, as leader of Ministry, Revolting Cocks and Lard. Uncle Al’s main day job is Ministry, whose albums The Land Of Rape […]
Gigs round-up: April 29-May 5
KING KONG COMPANY, Dolan’s, Limerick, Tonight, €12. Waterford act King Kong Company have been around since the 90s with a lengthy split in between, so younger fans are only catching them this time around. The […]
Causing Ructions: In the studio with Matador
There was a time when Dublin’s Harcourt Street could claim to be Ireland’s techno hub. And when someone finally gets round to writing a definitive history of Irish dance music, Tripod on the corner of Harcourt […]
Gigs round-up: April 22-28
OUT TO LUNCH feat. HIEROGLYPHIC BEING & JOHN HECKLE, Bar Tengu, Dublin, tonight, €12.50. Bar Tengu is probably still dusting itself off after the impromptu Prince party by the Lumo crew last night, and tonight […]
No Sleep till Ibiza: Darius Syrossian Interview
UK house DJ Darius Syrossian can’t get enough of Dublin, it seems. He was only here a few months ago for the Strictly Deep Christmas party at Hangar, and he’s at the Wright Venue in […]
Are you needing a boost? Wire – Fishes Bones
Post-punk pioneers, art-rock veterans and all-round singular force Wire are streaming their 15th studio album, the eight-track, 26-minute Nocturnal Koreans. No mucking about with filler there. The LP – hosted by NPR – arrives a […]
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