The ‘difficult second album’ is such a cliche that it’s a bit lame to ask Little Green Cars for their take on it, but there’s a point with their new LP. Ephemera, the Dubliners’ follow-up to 2013’s […]
Gigs of the week: March 4-10
Lee “Scratch” Perry, Dolans Warehouse, Limerick, tonight, & Roisin Dubh, Galway, tomorrow & Cyprus avenue, Cork, Sunday. LEE ‘Scratch’ Perry is 80 so this is one of the last times you’ll catch him live in Ireland. We can go on […]
Gigs round-up: February 27-March 3
Joanna Newsom, Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Thursday, SOLD OUT. JOANNA Newsom is one artist in the last decade who fans have built a cult around — which also means she’s one of the most divisive. She’s […]
National treasures: The Gloaming set for five nights at NCH
It seems daft that this time last year the Gloaming were outsiders to win the Choice Music Prize — up against all the hype and bluster over Mr Hozier. Some 12 months later, they’ve sold […]
Gigs round-up: February 19-25
Fat White Family, The Limelight 2, Whelan’s, Dublin, Tuesday, & Limelight 2, Belfast, Thursday. Fat White Family said recently they’ve “tried to go to the extremes of what’s tasteful” on their new album, and they’ve got […]
Irish gigs round-up
JULIA HOLTER, The Button Factory, Dublin, Wednesday. JULIA Holter’s fourth album Have You In My Wilderness is still reverberating in critics’ heads as one of the albums of 2015 – in nearly all of the end-of-year […]
Gigs round-up: February 5-11
Roisin Murphy, The Limelight, Belfast, Wednesday, & Olympia, Dublin, Thursday. One of the standouts at last year’s Electric Picnic, Roisin Murphy is taking her glitterball house and electro-pop show back to the clubs where it belongs. The former Moloko star’s […]
Gigs of the week: January 29-February 4
SOULFLY, Academy, Dublin, Tuseday, & Limelight 2, Belfast, Wednesday. One of metal’s biggest ever schisms has split Sepultura fans in two since frontman Max Cavalera left in 1996 to form Soulfly, leaving Derrick Green in […]
Snow Solid Crew: Rise Festival in Les Deux Alpes
Hitching a cable car down the French Alps with So Solid Crew at Rise Festival goes down as my most surreal festival moment of 2015 — and that includes Grace Jones hula-hooping her way through […]
Musique non stop: A day at the Red Bull Music Academy in Paris
Imagine you’re in your college canteen and legendary Detroit techno collective Underground Resistance are having coffee at the next table. After skulling your cuppa you rush to lectures past electronic composer Dorian Concept on the […]
Gigs round-up: December 4-10
OTHERAPY? Button Factory, Dublin, Thursday. IT’S hard to imagine that 20 years ago Therapy? were on the Donington Monsters of Rock festival bill above Slayer — a blip in the metal/time continuum. In the mid-90s […]
Interview with The Prodigy’s Liam Howlett: ‘We’ve always been pirates’
You’ve always got an idea that The Prodigy’s Liam Howlett from is always pissed off at something, but when he answers the phone he’s well chipper, bordering on content. He admits he’s got “a right […]
Nick Curly interview: ‘I have house and techno inside me’
GERMAN DJ Nick Curly says he’s not really up for the house vs techno vs EDM vs real vs fake wars that have been turning the dance scene into a bitching session over the last […]
Gigs round-up: November 27 – December 3
THUNDERCAT, The Sugar Club, Dublin Sunday & Monday. Bass virtuoso Thundercat was one of the stars on Flying Lotus’s freewheeling broken jazz epic You’re Dead!, but his slapping and high fretwork at FlyLo’s gig in Vicar Street […]
Gigs round-up: November 20-26
CHELSEA WOLFE, Button Factory, Dublin, Wednesday. Californian Chelsea Wolfe has released one of 2015’s dark masterpieces in her eighth LP Abyss. With track titles like Carrion Flowers, Simple Death and Color of Blood, you have a good idea what you’re getting before you take the plunge, but it’s […]
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