Blog: The Point Of Everything

Strands created one of the best Irish albums of 2010, and now, Stephen Shannon, the man behind the band, has made a video for one of the best tracks on the self-titled album. 'Chow Bell' doesn't really give us a look at the man behind Strands but it does get [Read more]

Yeasayer are not a band of video convention. They don't do boring videos. They do however, seem to like Valentine's Day, giving the world some visuals to put to 'I Remember'. The album is over a year old and it is nice to get a timely reminder of just why [Read more]

So one of my favourite bands dropped by KEXP to play an old seisuin. Above is 'South Carolina' and there are another three videos below, 'Pigeon', 'Robin' and 'Cape Dory'. All are rather lovely. Enjoy, and go to KEXP for more. The performance was recorded at the end of January. [Read more]

Those Dancing Days are going to release one of the best albums of the year, Daydreams and Nightmares. Don't believe me? Check out a ten-minute preview above. Samples of each song and since the album is only 30 minutes long (I assume) think of this as a chance to listen [Read more]

Wolf Gang first popped up on The Point Of Everything back in October with the immense 'Lions In Cages'. And now he is back 'Dancing With The Devil', released in late March. The guitar solo is the star of this show, but if you heard how anthemic 'Lions In Cages' [Read more]

The Heartbreaks were strangely absent from the lists of bands to watch out for in 2011. They should have been on plenty. So what went wrong? Well, firstly they released their first stuff a few months ago and got people hyped up back then. You can't be the sound of [Read more]

We have already heard 'Lippy Kids' from Elbow's forthcoming album, Build A Rocket Boys!, due out at the beginning of March. And the video for first single 'Neat Little Rows' escaped my attention. Until now! The track basically showcased everything that Elbow are pretty good at: escalating emotions, pulsating rhythms [Read more]

Remember when Muse made that video for 'Knights Of Cydonia'? It was the best movie that was never made. And now, it has competition. The music takes a backseat in the new video for Black Keys. 'Howlin' For You' is one of a multitude of great songs off Brothers, and [Read more]

One of the best new bands of last/this year are back with another video, this time for 'All Of This', the song from which the album, Passive Me Aggressive You, gets its name. You surely know the deal by now: The Naked And Famous create some bouncy pop-rock, all to [Read more]

It's a car video! That must mean that this is their Bonnie & Clyde moment! Er, whatever. The Kills are back, in a much less celebrated way than The Strokes, who have dominated blogs and ears for the past day. But people still love The Kills, despite their relationship with [Read more]

The star of 2011 so far is undoubtedly James Blake. Whether you like him or otherwise, everyone who likes music has an opinion on him. He was on Zane Lowe's Radio One show last night, performing the epic 'Wilhelm Scream', which, as it turns out, is actually a cover! Who [Read more]

So Flying Lotus went and directed a video. Erykah Badu has made a nice bit of laid-back r 'n' b in the form of 'Gone Baby, Don't Be Long', and got Flylo to direct the visuals. She is the queen of 'neo-soul', don't ya know! It is all taken from [Read more]

Warning: I have always and will always love everything The Strokes ever do. And just like that, it was as if Julian, Nick, Albert, Nikolai and Fab had never been away. Yes, at precisely 7.30pm Zane Lowe premiered the new Strokes song, 'Under Cover Of Darkness'. It was supposed to [Read more]

Dublin/Wicklow duo Solar Bears headed over to London's Maida Vale studio to perform three tracks for Rob Da Bank's show. They were driven over by their brother and managed to play three tracks, all of which appeared on their acclaimed debut album, She Was Coloured In. You can listen to [Read more]

A quick round-up of what happened on the blog in January. We have plenty videos, perhaps the highlight being Hercules & Love Affair's 'My House', and plenty new music. The quota of female Swedish singers is quite high, no? New music: Fleet Foxes - 'Helplessness Blues' Solar Bears - 'To [Read more]

So we've all listened to Blue Songs, Hercules & Love Affair's new album, right? Well, what next for the fan who wants to hear more from lead Herc, Andy Butler? Well, that's where Wolfram comes in. The fan-made video for 'Fireworks' is above and features that wonderful voice of Butler [Read more]

Bright Eyes have been very generous and put their forthcoming album up on Youtube. The People's Key is out in Ireland this coming Friday and many have been citing it as a return to form. But Conor Oberst has always had a pretty high quality control. The Youtube comment section [Read more]

On top of the podcast that you may have heard earlier in the week, featuring all new Irish music, I thought I would do a little mixtape of the tunes you may or my not have heard this week. Some of the songs are brand new to me and so [Read more]

Last night at the Grand Social in Dublin, a bunch of Irish music bloggers got together to celebrate the best of 2010. Grrom and Melijoann and special guests Ham Sandwich performed on the night, which I assume was a great success. Despite being one of the 26 judges involved in [Read more]

James Blake Here is something that I wrote for a much longer post earlier this year, which featured James Blake: "Does James Blake really need any introduction? The blogosphere has collectively gone into overdrive over the 23-year-old dubstepper. He has three EPs under his belt, which made it into Pitchfork's [Read more]