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Posts by John Madden
Staying Positive
How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love (or at least like) The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
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In the interest of full disclosure, I need to start by saying this: I was just about ready to give up on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Not in an 'I prefer their early stuff, don't like this new direction' kind of way. I didn't like them all that much to begin with. Nothing personal or anything - I just didn't get them .I should have liked them from day one, of course - I dig, to paraphrase They Might Be G
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Amanda Palmer performing with Author Neil Gaiman Next Tuesday
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In what looks to be one of the coolest events in Dublin in a long time, Amanda Palmer will be performing as part of a signing event for Newbery Award winner Neil Gaiman in Chapters Bookstore, Dublin on Tuesday February 17th. Admission is free.Full details are on the Chapters website - click on the event calendar to the right of the page.Sounds awesome to me. Unfortunately I'll be in work, but i...
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Shameless Self Promotion
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A couple of days before this baby business erupted, I got to interview John Fred Young from the band Black Stone Cherry about the new album and tour for an entertainment website here in Dublin. I'm still not sure if I can post the entire interview - John Fred was very cool, and very cordial - and it must be said articulate and interesting - and he talked to me for a good 20 minutes, which I had...
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Same as it ever was.
Seeing as the new Genius feature in iTunes seems convinced that I'm not listening to enough from my youth (the early 90s is a prominent feature in the playlists it's creating for me, regardless of the song I base them on), and as of yesterday we're now ten years removed from the release of '...Baby, One More Time', I thought it would be a good time to talk about some of the things we need to bring
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Don’t Call It A Comeback
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When I agreed to review James' 'Hey Ma', I was excited to do it. James were one of those bands that was compulsively likeable when I was growing up and, despite not having paid much attention since their 'Best of...' compilation came out a few years back, I couldn't wait to hear it. And then, I could. The minutiae of life piled up between overtime, home improvements and requests to pitch for other
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Dennis Sings The "Blues" - Again.
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One of the most jarring experiences I've ever had while listening to music was the first time I heard 'Pet Sounds'. I was a relatively old 20, and my previous experience with the Beach Boys was a vinyl 'Greatest Hits' in my dad's collection, which was pretty much completely devoted to the 'Fun, Fun, Fun', 'Surfin' USA' type stuff. But a guy in college, during an extended and meandering conversatio
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