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 […]
A Sort of Homecoming: U2 land in Dublin
Apart from maybe Bruce Springsteen playing a show in New Jersey, the most powerful homecoming in rock’n’roll has got to be U2 landing in Dublin after a worldwide trek. The last time they were cool […]
Gigs round-up: November 13-19
IN DREAMS: David Lynch revisited, National Concert Hall, Dublin, Wednesday David Lynch productions can’t be separated from their scores and songs — from Angelo Badalementi’s misty Twin Peaks theme to the jazz interludes and skuzzy rockabilly […]
Gigs round-up: November 6-12
JOHN GRANT, Vicar Street, Dublin, Monday & Tuesday It’s hard to think of any other artist with a higher approval rating in Ireland than John Grant. The Colorado singer-songwriter got his latest gold star when he filled […]
Tiga interview: No more hiding behind my records
You wait years for a Tiga live show and two gigs come along in the space of six months. The Montreal producer has already got a gold star for his final night showcase at Body […]
Jean-Michel Jarre interview: ‘We need to rebuild the future’
Electronic music was always supposed to be about looking to the future, but French pioneer Jean Michel Jarre worries that we’re getting blinded by misty-eyed nostalgia. Chatting about his new album Electronica, Jarre concedes that […]
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