Elder statesman of New Wave Nick Lowe finished up his brief European tour in Vicar Street on Wednesday night. Drawing largely from his older material and choice gems as well as some songs from his most recent album, “The Old Magic”, Lowe rolled back the years and turned in a performance with plenty of wit, charm, and heartfelt emotion. The [...]

Robert O’Conner is a budding singer songwriter from our very own Dublin City. Making his second attempt to break into the music scene, he treats us, the anxious public, to his new EP ‘Resistance’. Now, the track list, at a glance, doesn’t exactly blow me away; ‘Older,’ ‘Too Late,’ ‘Over’? The titles are as generic as they come, and in [...]

Moments of singer-songwriter Conor Ebbs’ début album, Drifters, are a bit like the wind. Inoffensive, static, and nice to listen to as long as you’re drifting off to sleep. However, a vigorous breeze is not something you’d be diving to put on your stereo in other circumstances. ‘Alliance’ is a soft opener, but instantly waves frantically in our direction to [...]

Nicole Scherzinger at The Olympia Theatre on February 16th 2012 Review and Photos by Abraham Tarrush Tonight, Dublin is stop number 3 for Nicole Scherzinger, and her Killer Love tour. Having fully sold out, the Olympia Theatre is packed to the rafters. While originally entering the music industry as part of the Popstars girl band Eden’s Crush, Nicole rose to international fame, heading [...]

Little under a year ago Northern Ireland’s own Two Door Cinema Club took the prestigious Choice Music Prize for Album of the Year back to Bangor. Although the Bangor trio are absent from this years proceedings Northern Ireland is still very well represented in 2012. The sheer variety of styles and genres for this years shortlist is astonishing. From Northern [...]

Review at Vicar Street on February 9th 2012 Review Saranne Murray Photos: Aidan McCarthy There are not many gigs you will attend where you get to witness a banjo solo, or a mosh pit to ‘The Fields of Athenry‘, but that’s exactly what happened when Dropkick Murphy’s brought their St Patricks day tour to Vicar street on Saturday night. I didn’t know what [...]

2011 hasn’t been kind to Wexford’s The Rusty Fixtures. No sooner do they decide to concentrate on writing original material since forming in 2010, than a chunk of the band’s equipment is stolen and set on fire. Not stolen and kept. Not stolen and sold. No, stolen and set on fire. The reasons and background to this remain obscure, but nonetheless [...]

Sexy Rouge is the new single from Limerick based band We Come In Pieces. Spanning only 2 minutes 14 seconds in length, the track doesn’t hold back from getting stuck right in. The title is a bit misleading as there’s nothing sexy about this song at all – it consists of frantic drums, guitar and bass from the offset as [...]

Album launches must be one of the most stressful experiences a band can go through.  What with all the added pressure that goes on behind the scenes, with the guest list, merch, and promotion, suddenly taking on equal importance to the show itself.  Far too often the gig suffers as a result. The bands who crumble under this pressure are [...]

The Jon Cohen Experimental are back with the difficult second album. Well I say difficult but it sounds more like Jon & Co. knocked this LP out over a long weekend with a smile on their face. It sounds very natural, which is exactly what we’ve gotten used to from the Canadian band. Behold is the name of the 11 [...]