Video: Funeral Suits - Black Lemonade

The list of bands performing in Canada during the Canadian Music Fest are Autumn Owls Butterfly Explosion Funeral Suits Halves James Vincent McMorrow Kill Krinkle Club Kormac’s Big Band Lost Chord Miracle Bell Preacher’s Son Sacred Animals The Dirty 9s Windings Check out the music below: Autumn Owls: Butterfly Explosion: Butterfly explosion-sophia by sanitash Funeral Suits: [...]

• James Vincent McMorrow - If I Had A Boat
• Miracle Bell - Love Sounds
• Preachers Son - This Time of Life
• sacredanimals - Wired, Islands
• sanitash - Butterfly explosion-sophia
• Windings - Cathedrals

Here's hoping a certain Icelandic volcano behaves itself this week because State is set to travel to the French town of Clermont-Ferrand for the fifth edition of Europavox . The festival is based around a city centre venue called La Coopérative de Mai and augmented by Spiegel Tents in an adjoining park, while behind the scenes there are facilities for industry types from across Europe to meet and network. Its relaxed atmosphere, friendly crowds and the intimate nature of the performances made it one of our highlights of last year's festival season and 2010 is looking set to be [...]

All this week, we're having guest posts from various people involved in different strands of Irish music - record shop owners, writers, bloggers, promoters, radio presenters, bands and more, telling us what Irish bands or artists they are really into right now. Ken McGuire runs Kilkenny Music and you can find him on Twitter . 1. Mugger Dave I caught Mugger Dave live back in March just ahead of the release of What's She Doing Here? . High charged rock with some great [...]