Looking for relief from the January blues? Well, I can't recommend this one highly enough. The Mighty Stef will be performing a special solo show in Flanagan's, Newbridge on Wednesday this week. Stef will be playing, amongst others, songs from his debut The Sins Of Sainte Catherine. Having not played a show in Newbridge in 2011 Stef has made it [...]
So, it's gig #3 for 'BarryGruff' Presents' in Flanagan's, Newbridge on Wednesday, December 14th. Entry is FREE as always and judging by the gigs #1 and #2, this is going to be immense! Now based between their native Dublin and Berlin, The Last Tycoons have taken time out of their busy schedule for a headline show in [...]
If we had to summarize Castlepalooza in a single word, it would be 'petite'. Claiming to be able to hold 3000, the festival often feels like it's home to no more than a few hundred people flitting past each other in a tiny enclosed space. The campsites – amusing labeled Eenie, Meanie, Mine-E and Mo – all sit in the shadow of the towering castle, and seem diminutive in amongst the rows of trees. The two stages take no more than 20 seconds to walk between, and the bands are drawn almost entirely from within our own shores. [...]
Kyp Malone's solo beard gets a gig A list of recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. This week: Rain Machine, Fenech Soler, Green Velvet, State's FREE gig , Mount Kimbie, Steinski, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Mystery Jets, Stornoway, Record Store Day, Patrick Kelleher's remix launch, Wooden Shjips and lots more. Tuesday 13th April - C.U.N.T. @ Crawdaddy (11pm, €3/5) Wednesday 14th April [...]
Photo by Rich Gilligan . Below you will find the fourth annual countdown of the top 30 Irish albums as voted by readers and commenters of this blog. There are some surprises in there to me. The number one album on the list actually won by a fair few votes. In a year where there was no clear favourite, it's interesting to see such an album top the list. A few of the albums charted quite highly considering they were only released in the last month or so. Anyway, I hope you discover [...]
The results of the poll are ready to be revealed. First up, the Irish songs of the year as voted by you. A staggering 215 different songs were voted for overall from about 150 voters in total and the resulting top 30 sees multiple appearances from some of the following: David Kitt, Villagers, And So I Watch You From Afar, Hunter-Gatherer, Patrick Kelleher and Super Extra Bonus Party. I'll post the Google Doc showing the number of votes for each song tomorrow along with the album results as well as hopefully contacting the winners of the prizes . Here [...]
This debut album from Kildare's Band On An Island has been many years in the making. Championed by our own Niall Byrne as far back as 2006, the Newbridge-based six-piece have been ploughing what must have seemed a lonely furrow for so long. The fact remains that their kind of poetic rock was probably more at home in the 1980s and early '90s than now, calling to mind, as it does, The Waterboys, Echo And The Bunnymen and even early Frames. Before those of you of a similar vintage to State get all dewy-eyed and nostalgic, [...]
Super 45 forma parte del Music Alliance Pact (MAP), una iniciativa de The Pop Cop que reune canciones destacadas de músicos locales de 34 países, una vez al mes. A continuación podrán disfrutar de todos los temas y un link para descargar todo el compilado CHILE: Super 45 Astro - Raifilter Junto a los electro-poppers Moustache!, Astro (Andrés Nusser y Octavio Cavieres) es una [...]
Nov 17, 2009, 3:08am
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Please forgive us the delay posting this month's MAP edition, but blogging while travelling, attending to radio shows and gigs is not that simple. From Finland we chose experimental band Cleaning Women, a trio of robots doing peculiar music. As usual, you may download all the songs at once with the link at bottom. ARGENTINA: [...]
ARGENTINA: Zonaindie Entre Ríos - Frontera Finally we get the chance to showcase this great indie-pop band from Buenos Aires on MAP. Entre Ríos is a musical project led by Sebastian Carreras (vocals, keyboards, guitar) that has been around since 1998. Their first albums were recorded with Isol as the main singer, but since her departure in 2005 they've featured different guest vocalists live and in the studio. Frontera is a MAP-exclusive [...]
The Music Alliance Pact is a collective of 34 of the world's top music blogs and webzines from 34 countries spanning six continents. Every month, each of these 34 sites picks one hot local song that gets posted on all these great blogs and zines. This month we picked Kolkata experimental rock act PINKNOISE 's 'Dream Dream' as the Indian representative on this massive international indie mixtape. The song comes from the band's soon-to-be-released live DVD. You can download 'Dream Dream' along with 33 other tracks from regions as diverse as Denmark, Brazil and Portugal [...]
Penúltima edición del MAP de este año, esta vez con la participación de una banda que ya venía haciendo ruido desde hace tiempo. Nuestra historia rockera es larga y grande, es algo que quizá estábamos olvidando, pero aquí están Los Protones dándonos un boleto de ida y vuelta a nuestros inicios con un rock instrumental que se acopla perfectamente con más de una circunstancia que vivimos a diario, son garage, surf, o como quieras llamarlos con la esencia sesentera en sus venas. Próximos conciertos *20 nov 2009 22:00 Concierto pro fondos 2do [...]
Once more, here is November's edition of the Music Alliance Pact . For those of you who don't know about MAP, it's a collection of music blogs from around the world who band together once a month to shed light on up-and-comers from their home countries. It's sort of like the WTO without the human rights violations. No new MAP countries were added for this edition, so we're sitting solid at 34 countries. If you'd like to be considered, drop by the comments section with a link to your site and I'll [...]
It's the 15th of November, Music Alliance pact day! Music Alliance Pact (MAP) is a collaboration between 34 blogs from all over the world, and every month, each of us present a band from our own country. All presentations are put together in this huge blogpost, and presented on the same day in all the MAP blogs. Massive promotion for the bands! This month is kind of special for the us at Eardrums, since it's 1YEAR since we first started representing Norway in the Music Alliance Pact . Yay for us! I've [...]
Nov 15, 2009, 4:27am
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Jälle aeg igakuiseks uue muusika süstiks. Nagu ikka 15. kuupäeval, 34 värsket lugu üle maailma. Ja kohe võib hakata pakkuma lugusid detsembrikuusse. Aga läksime siis: EESTI: Popop Antonina - Itsuyorimo Kui Helene alustas muusika kirjutamist, mängis ta tänavatel, et saada taskuraha, lõi keskkoolis punkbändi, mis kaua ei püsinud ja laulis [...]
over the 12 months of being part of MAP , we've brought you the best of singapore music, from the established veterans ( concave scream , force vomit , astreal ) to the current flag bearers ( i am david sparkle , the fire fight ), spanning across genre from electronica ( MUON ), folk and acoustic ( jon chan , inch chua ), indiepop ( leeson ), post-hardcore ( a vacant affair ), and some good ol' rock ( nuance ), faithfully curated by our local music ambassador brian koh . this month, [...]
ARGENTINA: Zonaindie Entre Ríos - Frontera Finally we get the chance to showcase this great indie-pop band from Buenos Aires on MAP. Entre Ríos is a musical project led by Sebastian Carreras (vocals, keyboards, guitar) that has been around since 1998. Their first albums were recorded with Isol as the main singer, but since her departure in 2005 they've featured different guest vocalists live and in the studio. Frontera is a MAP-exclusive [...]
Dia 15 é o dia de Santa Aliança em que damos a volta ao mundo com tantos temas como os blogs aliados a esta Music Alliance Pact. Este mês, os representantes de Portugal são da Figueira da Foz e exigem roupa formal e disposição para gin tónico, dando preferência a quem domine o poker. É claro que nada disto é necessário mas a sua música leva-nos para os ambientes de um Casino. De um Casino Royal.
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