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Thanks to the generous organisers of Le Cheile, the music festival taking place this weekend in Oldcastle, Co. Meath I’ve got a pair of weekend tickets to giveaway (worth €100) to the readers of this blog. The festival runs from Friday 31st July to the 2nd August with loads of gigs taking place in [...]

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  Super Extra Bonus Party

The excellent Night Horses has been out a couple of months now and now you can listen to it in full below. If you’ve been listening to the radio at all lately, you will have heard ‘Comets’ the poptastic tune featuring…

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It was 2005 when Vex’d released Degenerate, one of the first dubstep albums to get noticed in any major way. I’m not sure what they’ve been doing since apart from a couple of twelves on Planet Mu but this solo EP from Jamie Vex’d In System Travel is definitely worth your time.It fits right [...]

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Madlib and Guilty Simpson have teamed up to release ‘Coroner’s Music’, a 12 inch single as OJ Simpson (Madlib’s real name is Otis Jackson, who knew?) which preceeds the forthcoming 14-track album OJ Simpson which features some cuts from J. Rocc and a couple of guests in Elzhi and Strong arm Steady. Stones Throw [...]

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  Harlem Shakes
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  Technicolor Health
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  Strictly Game

WATCH CLOSELY…. All is not what it appears..Attention spans FTW!. The band’s album Technicolor Health has been mentioned here before..Related PostsHarlem Shakes – Technicolor Health The 12 best bands I loved @ SXSW 2009

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It may be a couple of months overdue due to vinyl pressing issues but Fulgeance’s Smartbanging EP is finally out on vinyl through One Handed Music. You may have heard this Frenchman on the recent All City 7�7 Beat compilation with the killer ‘Revenge of the Nerds’ tune (below).2009 is fast becoming defined by [...]

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Tomorrow (Tuesday) sees the announcement of the shortlist for the 2009 Mercury Music Prize and the BBC Music Blog have asked various blogs (myself included) to give their thoughts on a possible shortlist. The Mercury Prize is awarded to albums of any genre, with the only key entry condition being that they had a [...]

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I’ve a soft spot for tunes which can’t easily be categorised and this is one of them. ‘The Soon Future’ is an upbeat electronic workout with squelchy vocodered bits, funky cascading guitar notes, distorted synths, treated vocal lines and some funky beats before making with the epic organ breakdown. It’s a lovely first dispatch. [...]

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“Because not everything music bloggers get sent is total shit.”This time around – Dam Funk, The Do, new material from Hope Sandoval (pictured), Cass McCombs, a White Lies remix, The Phenomenal Handclap Band and a friendly Fires mashup.The Dø are an oddball Finnish/French duo who despite not singing in French have found success in the [...]

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Where else in Dublin but Tower Records would you see a bunch of lads lepping about like this to applause?Hey it’s not all about MP3 files, Youtube videos and Spotify streams! Physical product is the best way to keep your record collection from getting deleted (though it can be susceptible to tea spills). We [...]

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MAP (Music Alliance Pact) asks 26 music bloggers (welcome Venezuela and Japan!) across the world to share a track from their home country that they think you should hear.My Irish pick this month: The Holy Roman Army. AMERICA: I Guess I’m FloatingSpanish Prisoners – Kiss The Lawn GoodbyeBrooklyn’s Spanish Prisoners, fronted by Leo Maymind, create [...]

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On the day that Florence and the Machine’s debut album Lungs is officially launched, it is number one in the midweek album chart. Michael Jackson’s memorial concert might stilll have something to do with the

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It’s Florence and the Machine week after her album launch gig in London and this is definitely the most unique thing I’ve ever given away on the blog. There’s only 190 of them in existence so they are extremely limited and are going for £200 each. Florence and designer Faye Sawyer have created this [...]

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Drone rock really is the best way to describe this lovely mess of noise, this psychedelic trail of music called Sinkane which turns out to be the brainchild of Sudanese dude Ahmed Gallab, be the drummer from Yeasayer according to his blog. If you’re into the most ambient live-sounding parts of Spacemen 3 [...]

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It’s July 1st, the mid-point of the year, a good time to reflect on what we’ve been offered musically so far in 2009. There’s been some stonkers like Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective and Fever Ray but you know about them already. I’ve listed my ten obvious favourite records of the year so far and [...]

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I got this nice tune in recently and seeing as Ruairi will be DJing at the “For The Love Of” Exhibition tomorrow, Thursday 2nd at Mill Street Gallery and Studios in Dublin 8, the info is pertinent. Lynch has an “acoustic-y” Myspace page and an “electro-y” Myspace page and ‘Slide’ is truly somewhere in [...]

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Popped along to the launch of Hard Working Class Heroes yesterday for their whistle-stop tour of indie record shops with a band playing in each venue. Biggles Flys Again, The Ambience Affair and the amazing And So I Watch You From Afar all played in The Secret Book and Record Store, Road Records and Tower [...]

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One of my favourite labels IAmSound (home to Suckers, Little Boots, Telepathe, Thecockandbullkid, Florence and the Machine etc) has announced a new signing in the form of Fool’s Gold (the band, not A-Trak’s label) who will be releasing their debut in September. Hailing from LA, the band is made up of members of We [...]

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