For a young band who play dance-rock tunes that conjure up energy and summer love, what better audience than an excited underage crowd? Nightbox have all cards in their hands tonight, opening for Canadian emo-electro-pop artist Lights, in the warm and cosy basement of the Academy 2. They don’t beat around the bush: the opener…
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Nightbox – Dublin
More names for Optimus Primavera Sound Porto
More details of the lineup for Optimus Primavera Sound which takes place in Porto, the week after Primavera in Barcelona from June 7th until the 10th. The Flaming Lips, The Rapture, Yann Tiersen and Rufus Wainright have been added to the bill which already includes Björk,Jeff Tweedy, Wilco, Death Cab For Cutie, Explosions In…
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Album premiere: Deaf Joe – Burrowings
Muted, coiling and graceful, Burrowings is the debut album by folk-abstractionist Deaf Joe. A combination of acoustics, waltzing blues and ambient stretches, the album is both hypnagogic while rooted in familiar terrain and it is streaming below for your listening pleasure.Deaf Joe will release Burrowings… on The Delphi Label, this Friday, February 17th. He
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State’s Office Stereo – Silly Little Love Songs
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Terius Nash introducing Casha – ‘Silly’ (chosen by Alan Reilly)So here we are at Valentine’s Day – the most redundant and fickle of all make-believe celebrations – and romance lingers in the air like the putrid stench of a rotting relationship. A man very lucky in the fleshy side of things, The-Dream’s career is…
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Watch the new video from This Club – ‘Add It Up’
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After their incredibly catchy first single ‘I Won’t Worry’ and their appearance in State’s Faces Of 2012 list, This Club return with a second single that isn’t far behind in the catchy stakes. The video directed by Hugh O’Conor who went for a “flicking-through-crazy-music-channels vibe.”The single is out on March 9th.…
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Kim V Porcelli covers Chic for Valentine’s Day
Once of this parish as well as an in demand musician with the likes of Ann Scott, The Tycho Brahe and Nina Hynes, Kim V Porcelli has released her own, very unique, version of Chic’s ‘I Want Your Love’. Inspired by the song’s use in the film Shame, Porcelli has produced a pretty abstract, looped…
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Alabama Shakes are coming to Dublin
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The band responsible for one of the best songs of the last six months in ‘Hold On’ are coming to these shores for a gig on Saturday May 5th at The Academy 2. Tickets are €13 plus fees from usual outlets on sale this Friday.Their debut album Boys & Girls… comes out on April
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Sharon Van Etten for Whelan’s gig
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One that has eluded Ireland for a while, Brooklyn’s Sharon Van Etten is lined up to play Whelan’s on Friday May 18th tickets priced at €16.50 plus fees. whelanslive.com, tickets.ie, ticketmaster.ie & Ticketmaster outlets nationwide.Van Etten’s new and third album Tramp… (and first on label Jagjaguwar) is out now and features production by The
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The Jane Bradfords – 100 Miles Of Broken Pavements
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Things seemed to be about to go supernova for The Jane Bradfords in the wake of their debut albums success in 2008. Praise heaped on the band from Radio 1, commercial success with ad campaigns for BT and various TV advertisements and support slots with a who’s – who of indie music pointed to a…
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Michael Kiwanuka announces UK and Dublin gigs
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After an impressive set in the Sugar Club last weekend, Michael Kiwanuka has announced he will return to Dublin in May as part of his UK & Irish tour. Kiwanuka’s debut album Home Again comes out on MArch 12th and he’ll play dates at SXSW this year. Here are the tour dates for the calendar.…
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tUnE-yArDs – Dublin
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Merrill Garbus, the woman who is for all intents and purposes tUnE-yArDs, stands alone centre stage, flanked by a floor tom and a snare with two microphones and a pedal board in front of her and begins to build a sound collage with her extraordinary voice, over a looped drum figure. Like a lost Amazonian…
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Tripod & Crawdaddy reportedly close for business
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Dublin has seemingly lost two of its major venues with news emerging over the weekend that the POD complex, including Crawdaddy and Tripod, has shut down. No official statement has been made as to the future of the venue, the reason for closure or what will happen to scheduled gigs over the coming weeks (indeed…
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Field Music – Plumb
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Brothers Peter and David Brewis of Sunderland (who have been making music as Field Music since 2005) released their ambitious, sprawling and majestic double album Measure… in 2010. For their fourth LP they’ve opted for brevity and a return to a more fragmented — yet curiously cohesive — aesthetic that dictated their earlier records. The
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Bank Holiday date for Kitty, Daisy & Lewis
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We love a bank holiday weekend here at State, offering as it does the chance to cram in a large number of gigs into a few days. This May’s long weekend is already shaping up nicely with the news that our favourite rock ‘n’ roll sibling trio Kitty, Daisy & Lewis will be playing Whelan’s…
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Craig Finn – Clear Heart Full Eyes
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Early last year, The Hold Steady decided to take a rain check on the album/tour/album/tour roundabout (it can hardly be described as anything so pejorative as a treadmill) they’d been on since heaven was whenever (five albums in eight years, actually), which left their front man, singer and lyricist Craig Finn with time on his…
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Whitney Houston RIP
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After a long battle with addiction, Whitney Houston has been found dead in a LA hotel room on the eve of the annual Grammy awards. The singer was discovered unconscious in the Beverly Hills Hilton hours before attending Clive Davis’ pre-show party. No cause of death has yet been confirmed. Hosuton was 48 years old.…
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Listen to the Sargent House Podcast
Sargent House are the label in charge for bringing And So I Watch You From Afar and Adebisi Shank to North America and for their first podcast, Ireland’s Niamh Hegarty is at the helm to return the favour by introducing some of Sargent’s roster in return.The focus is on Sargent’s SXSW showcase next month…
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MyNameIsJohn – The Thinker and the Prover
The Thinker and the Prover… is a melding of old and new, that moves Limerick’s MyNameIsJohn into a space in instrumental sample hip-hop he can almost call his own. He hasn’t reinvented the wheel here but he has tastefully repackaged the type of music exemplified by Shadow et al of 15 years ago and placed
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Islet – Illuminated People
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Despite how it can sometimes seems, UK bands don’t always follow the same lazy tradition (The Beatles, Sex Pistols, The Cure, The Smiths or Oasis) of their contemporaries. It’s a relief as conservatism has never inspired creativity, either in music or in politics. Cardiff quartet Islet are not into fancy jackets, romantic-drunk-loser lyrics, anthemic riffs…
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Emeli Sandé – Our Versions Of Events
Already an apparent dead cert for success following her 2012’s Brits Critics Choice, Emeli Sandé finally releases her debut album, nearly six months after her first single caught people’s attention. Sande has been steadily building her profile over that period, collaborating with Chipmunk, Professor Green and Tinie Tempah, as well as song-writing for Leona Lewis,…
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