What seems like a long time ago in an analogue galaxy far, far away… Music lovers would congregate at the church of the record store not just for Sunday service; but for all of Saturday afternoon too. I spent most of my teenage years and money in record stores. I genuinely feel sorry for today’s iTunes generation who will never know the [...]

The Riptide Movement Olympia Theatre 10th November 2012 If you’ve not heard The Riptide Movement’s music before, it’s roughly the aural equivalent of partaking in a rabble rousing hoedown in a dive bar when suddenly, a fight breaks out. Then, in between the chairs flying over head and bits of beard and check shirt flying everywhere, someone smashes you over [...]

Meteor Live Sessions The Meteor Live Sessions is an immense platform for Irish bands. Three up & comers plus a no brainer headline act (usually seen in a larger venue) are handpicked by Today FM’s Paul McCloone and his team. The event is then broadcast live on Paul’s show on Today FM. Personally, I love discovering new acts at nights [...]

It’s The Mercantile on Arthurs Day and they have organised a huge lineup to celebrate the evening. They even went to the trouble of splitting the venue in two just to handle the amount of acts they had in there. Common Wolf punched through the EP of strong, Joy Division meet Echo and the Bunnyment inspired tracks and bashed out [...]

I have a rather infuriating Kodaline related problem. I can’t listen to All I Want, the lead track from the newly released EP, without getting goosebumps all over. It’s cold out now Kodaline, you really should have been more considerate of the Irish weather and released this in July, not September. Kodaline are from Dublin and they’re really, really good. [...]

‘This is not a festival for Berliners. No self respecting Berliner would pay five Euro for a beer!’ We had met this particular uber-hipster specimen of Berliner at the U Bahn station on the way to the final day of Berlin Festival. Having been asked his opinion of the festival, he was now swaying and gesticulating wildly, spilling froth from [...]

Here’s an unusual piece for you to enjoy. Two compilations, an original and a remix called Electrospective. We could have reviewed them separately but why make you click around. So here is the Electrospective reviews from both sides of the fence. ELECTROSPECTIVE – THE REMIX ALBUM ‘A COLLECTION OF RARE ELECTRONIC REMIXES’ ***GEEK ALERT – GEEK ALERT – GEEK ALERT*** [...]

One of our favourite acts in Ireland, Adebisi Shank were back out on live patrol on Friday 27th July. The math rockers were in fine fettle, many a tweet tells us that the crowd in attendance were very impressed with some new material. We can only look forward to the new album. If you missed the live show, we have some [...]

“Did you shave half your head to look like Hunter S. Thompson?” Hunter turned around, in full Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas regalia, said nothing, then offered everyone a cigarette. All the time he was swaying and staring wild eyed at nothing in particular.  “Has he not broken character all weekend then?”, asked a man in a pink pig [...]