As part of the ongoing projects to celebrate The Vibe heading into its 25th year, the good people behind the project have been delving into the video archive which begins at the 5th Vibe and runs up to the most recent show at the Button Factory in January this year. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/user/Th eVibe25 More info: www.vibeforphilo.com Here's some of the best uploaded so far: Whipping Boy - Shades of Blue Orphanage from 1996 [...]

Need a little workday diversion while waiting for the 5 o'clock hour to arrive? How about Billboard magazine's suggestion of Lindsay Lohan's Prison Playlist . Along with the usual suspects ( Jailhouse Rock, Jailbreak, Chain Gang ), there's Akon 's Locked Up , System of A Down 's Prison Song and Pearl Jam 's Dead Man (all ready for streaming on those whopping 1-1/23 desktop speakers they gave you). When you're done, take a look at their 50 Best Music Mugshots
Thin Lizzy have confirmed two dates in February for Irish fans: The Waterfront, Belfast on 16th February (£27-30 plus booking fee) and Olympia Theatre, Dublin on 17th February 2011 (€33.60 - €38.60 plus booking fee). Next year will see the 25th anniversary of Vibe for Philo which takes place in Vicar Street on January 4th. Tickets went on sale this morning priced at €40. Thin Lizzy's current line-up is Scott Gorham (Guitar), Brian Downey (Drums), Darren Wharton (keyboards), Vivian Campbell (Guitar), Marco Mendoza (Bass Guitar) and Ricky Warwick (Lead vocals/Guitar).

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Video , Exclusive These days, it almost seems uncool for bands to wear their love of classic rock on their sleeves. For the bands that do, they usually talk about what's original in their music versus what they lift from their influences. That's not the case for Philadelphia's Free Energy , who stopped by Spinner's New York studios to tape an Interface full of amped-up, Thin Lizzy -inspired rock 'n' roll. "[Classic rock] songs are so focused and strong, [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News As befits an in-store gig, Ted Leo worked two semi-obscure late-'70s British power-pop songs into his performance Thursday night at New York City's Generation Records. Whichever fan was wedged against the "Various Artists" section of the shop's used-CD racks might have picked up 'Teenage Kicks,' the first volume in Rhino Records' 'DIY' series, and seen both tracks listed: Nick Lowe 's 'So It Goes' and Eddie and the Hot Rods ' 'Do Anything You Wanna Do.' It made [...]

Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive Alejandro Escovedo 's 2008 release, 'Real Animal,' turned out so well that the Texas singer-songwriter brought back many of the same elements for his latest, 'Street Songs of Love.' He wrote songs with his friend Chuck Prophet , recorded them with his band the Sensitive Boys and re-enlisted Tony Visconti to produce the album, which is due June 29 on Fantasy Records. "I knew going into it that it was going to be a guitar record. I [...]

For several years, there was a group of us that were together more evenings than not. Sometimes it might only be three or four of us; sometimes there might be as many as a dozen. Almost all of us - me, The Drunken Frenchman, BK, KB, The Frail Jew, Mustafa, Vegas - had reached a position of tenure in a very large record store. If none of us were rock stars (and none of us were), the popularity of our workplace gave us a bit of celebrity that could make you feel like one. (our store [...]
My top 5 artists/rock bands constantly change but right now I'd have to say these are them! # 5 – Robin Trower One of the greats! #4 – Motorhead Still one of the greatest ever. # 3 – Judas Priest The metal gods. #2 – Thin Lizzy If you don't like Thin Lizzy, you better turn yourself around! # 1 - Black [...]
My top 5 artists/rock bands constantly chane but right now I'd have to say these are them! # 5 – Robin Trower One of the greats! #4 – Motorhead Still one of the greatest ever. # 3 – Judas Priest The metal gods. #2 – Thin Lizzy If you don't like Thin Lizzy, you better turn yourself around! # 1 - Black [...]

Camden Hills State Park is located in Camden, ME, just a few hours north of Portland, ME and a few hours south of Acadia National Park and Deer Isle . It's a perfect place to go camping after a breakfast at Friendly Toast and a beautiful drive up Route 1 in Maine. On a clear day, you can hike up Mt. Battie and see Cadillac Mountain at Acadia. It's quite the view, friends. The camping is all done right next [...]

MP3: Kristofer Åström - A Song While I'm Away Slow music month, this is. And it's not a bad thing, because we can look back on fonder times. This is more an apology post than anything else, because if memory serves me correct, we totally slacked on posting anything from the new Kristofer Åström record last year. So here it is, KÅ prettying up an oft-overlooked Thin Lizzy ballad . Phil Lynott would be proud.

The New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal continues to shine with the debut release from Montreal's Barn Burner. The new disc, Bangers , was released on Metal Blade last month and the band combines the clean, melodic sounds of bands like Thin Lizzy and Iron Maiden with the feedback-drenched, stoner grooves of Kyuss and Fu Manchu. The disc starts out strong with the track "Holy Smokes" which captures the 70's rock vibe so perfectly that it sounds like it could have come off Lizzy's Thunder & Lightening . Singer/guitarist K. Keaglesmith's vocals also bear [...]
Filed under: The Hit List Even the wildest rock 'n' rollers -- with the possible exception of Courtney Love -- settle down at some point. This new maturity is often signaled by the birth of a child, which inevitably leads to a song about the birth of a child, which leads to music videos with kids, which leads to an appearance on ' Yo Gabba Gabba .' For those of you compiling a baby shower playlist, here are some of our [...]

Secondo i reporter della famosa agenzia di stampa internazionale Associated Press , i Marines dell'esercito degli Stati Uniti mandati in Afghanistan per combattere i Talebani starebbero sperimentando un atipico mezzo di "guerra psicologica": l'heavy metal. In occasione di un violento scontro accorso a Marjah, nel sud del Paese, un veicolo corazzato USA avrebbe infatti utilizzato dei megafoni per "sparare" ad altissimo volume dei brani di Metallica , Offspring e Thin Lizzy scelti ad-hoc dal loro repertorio per fiaccare il morale dei rivoltosi asserragliati: il motivo di una simile scelta ce lo spiega [...]

NATO has been struggling to win over the hearts and minds of the local population throughout its eight-and-half year occupation of Afghanistan: Seems like it isn't having much luck with their ears , either. US special forces in Marjah have hit upon the genius idea of blasting deafening Metallica , Thin Lizzy and Offspring tunes in the general direction of suspected insurgent strong-holds in a bid to root out hard rock-averse guerrillas. Only problem is, the civilians aren't exactly ecstatic about the constant barrage of 'Enter Sandman' and 'Pretty Fly (For [...]

Wanna find an insurgent while fighting the war for our freedom? Blast some Metallica and that'll have 'em running for the hills. The U.S. Military are fighting Taliban forces with bullets, tanks and heavy metal and hard rock, according to the Associated Press . When enemy forces started firing on our troops in Marjah, Afghanistan, our boys fired up the speakers and blasted Metallica, Thin Lizzy and The Offspring to annoy them. The speakers are so powerful that people can hear the music up to a mile away. Imagine what [...]

So we have a list of the Greatest Irish people ever! With everything we've all been put through it certainly is a time of reflection. As a nation we need a vision for the future so we don't make the same mistakes of the past. We need to remind ourselves about what it means to be Irish. We need to remind ourselves that being Irish is the greatest! Here's the list! Bono, Dr Noel Browne, Michael Collins, James Connolly, Stephen Gately, John Hume, [...]
In the past few years much ink has been spilt discussing "mashups," the process of remixing two or more songs together. The weirder the combination, the more impressive the feat. DJs like Girl Talk lead the charge, but due to differing keys and tempos the pairings sometimes sound forced. Mashup covers, on the other hand, have more freedom. Here are ten odd couples and unchained medleys that,