Blog: The Point Of Everything

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]

We have discussed Those Dancing Days on here before and this seems like as good a time as any to talk about them more. 'I'll Be Yours', the video of which is above, is perhaps the closest you are going to get to a Swedish girl band doing their version [Read more]

"The acclaimed rock and roll band", The National played live on David Letterman's show last night, February 1. They brought along album standout (among an album of standouts), 'Conversation 162. It was an intense performance, but I guess for those of you lucky enough to see them in the Olympia [Read more]

After months of work (procrastination), here is the second Point Of Everything Podcast. Some facts about podcast number two: i) It was recorded on Monday, January 31 ii) The voice you can hear is mine, Eoghan O'Sullivan iii) It was recorded on a Zoom H2 iv) I got distracted halfway [Read more]

Brian Oblivion (WHAT A NAME!!!) and Madeline Follin make up Cults, who will probably end up dominating blogs around the world for the next 12 months. They do everything you want from a boy/girl duo: doo-wop sounds, dreamy guitars and lovey-dovey lyrics. And it is no surprise that they have [Read more]

Best Coast played album track 'Each And Every Day' live on David Letterman's show last night, January 31. It is a wonderful performance by the three piece, who have not featured on many of these late night American talk shows. I love how amused Letterman is with Snacks the cat. [Read more]

Oh that voice. Oh that soothing, reassuring voice. Welcome back Robin Pecknold. Welcome back Fleet Foxes. The world hasn't been the same since you left. What we have below is the first brand spanking new track from Seattle's Fleet Foxes. It is called 'Helplessness Blues' and if you have heard [Read more]

Not Squares took to the airwaves on Sunday night for a session on BBC Introducing in Northern Ireland with Rory McConnell. The two-hour show, broadcast from 12am to 2am may have been on after some people's bedtime so you can listen back to the show here (which you really ought [Read more]

Planet Mu is one of the more underrated record labels around at the moment. To try to change this a little, they have put together a compilation of 14 artists to showcase the depth and quality that is found on their roster. Solar Bears are just one of the talented [Read more]