To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Doolittle and the current Doolittle tour, Pixies have released a four-track live EP recorded in Paris.All you have to do is go here, fill in an email address and download it. RelatedPixies photo specialPixies – Olympia Theatre, DublinUpdated: Pixies ‘Doolittle’ tour for Olympia two nighterNew Pixies box set…
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Pixies give away 4-track live EP
Yo La Tengo – Tripod, Dublin
Yo La Tengo are the anti-hype band. Twelve albums into their career the Hoboken crew continue to gather new fans but never lose one. Unlike other acts with such a large back catalogue, Yo La Tengo don’t have an entry point, they don’t have a definitive album. Each record they create is paradigm shift to…
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MTV EMAs – Achtung, Baby
Oh joy. The MTV Awards, European franchise. After this year’s dull VMAs and last year’s EMA debacle in Liverpool, we settled down last night heavy of heart and cynical of outlook. Let’s just get the next two and a half hours (TWO AND A HALF HOURS!) out the way and go back to our lives.…
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Channel One – Sound To Light
In a recent interview, Channel One referred to doing free shows as their best career move. Attending a gig by the Dublin quartet can be as jarring as it can be euphoric, a blend that is commonly sought by acts but rarely realised. It is on the strength of this reputation more so than the…
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Mary Coughlan interview
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As anyone who has read Mary Coughlan’s new autobiography Bloody Mary will testify, no other woman has more right to sing the blues than she. A rollercoaster ride of child abuse, alcoholism and heartache, her thunderous lifestyle has often overshadowed the adroit musical career that put her in the public eye in the first place. Her…
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Passion Pit, The Academy, Dublin
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The tale of the inception of Passion Pit treads the infinitely fine line between heart-swellingly romantic and sickeningly schmaltzy, depending on how sweet a tooth you have. Michael Angelakos was once a one man laptop show playing a collection of songs that together comprised a belated Valentine’s Day present for his girlfriend. Three band members,…
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Karen O & The Kids – Where The Wild Things Are OST
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Film scores are intrinsically tied into your experience of a movie. They can help you subliminally decide by the end credits if you really take a film to heart or decide that it should’ve went straight to DVD. The task of adding the right music to a film is doubly daunting when it’s an adaptation…
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Cheryl Cole – 3 Words
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In a tale that’s as old as time itself, we of a certain age have seen the rise and fall and eventual rise again of Ms. Cheryl Tweedy. Once arch WAG and toilet attendant-baiter, she has of late been reborn as Cheryl Cole, Britain’s favourite big sister and heroine-with-an-air-of-tragedy. However, it has to be said…
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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves – PS3
Like a cross between Indiana Jones and Lara Croft (albeit without the gravity-defying figure that made the latter such a hit with teenage male gamers), Nathan Drake is back and he’s in trouble… big trouble.Uncharted 2 begins with our hero coming to consciousness on a wrecked train carriage, that just happens to be teetering on…
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Interview with White Lies
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It’s been one of those oft-mentioned rollercoaster years for indie darlings White Lies, due back here in December for Heineken Green Spheres gigs on the 9th in The Academy, Dublin and the 10th in The Opera House, Cork with support from Neon Indian and the Kissaway Trail (Get free tickets from Heineken Music).. Their epic,…
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EP roundup: Land Lovers, Brian Cullen’s Love Bullets, Disconnect 4
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Immovable Feet is the second release from Land Lovers, the brainchild of Padraig Cooney. Wordy indie pop is their specialty, and Immoveable Feet is pleasingly refreshing to that end. The eponymous 'Immoveable Feet' and 'Paul Tracey Probably Knows' showcase the inherent wit and ear for a cutesy melody that Land Lovers possess
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Foggy Notions & Adrian Crowley present HOMELIGHTS
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Teaming up with Foggy Notions singer-songwriter Adrian Crowley has co-curated a festival of music & visuals drawing on the themes of community and kinship in the arts. The festival is HOMELIGHTS. It takes place over four nights, Friday 27th of November to Monday the 30th. The line-up is pretty special, made up of comrades and…
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The Drones cancel remaining dates of UK/Irish tour
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Australia’s The Drones have been forced to cancel the rest of their UK and Ireland tour including a date at Whelan’s on November 8th. The reason is a genuine one: The Drones’ Dan Luscombe has been hospitalized with pneumonia The band would like to offer their sincere apologies to all fans that had bought tickets…
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Billy Talent / Cancer Bats – Olympia Theatre, Dublin
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For reasons that seem to confuse a lot of Irish people, Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving a full month and a half before their neighbours to the south. While Americans celebrate their own peculiar foundation myth – the coming together of English settlers and Native Americans for a spot of dinner at Plymouth – Canadians celebrate not…
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Until The Light Takes Us – The Black Metal Movie trailer
Until The Light Takes Us tells the story of black metal. Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and…
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Biffy Clyro – Olympia Theatre, Dublin
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It had almost been a year since Scottish trio Biffy Clyro played Ireland, but the amount of ‘Monthebiffy!’s resounding through the Olympia before the show had begun suggested that a year is too long in concert-going terms. Not long after support band Manchester Orchestra had finished wowing the mob, the unshaven Scotsmen took to the…
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Ian Brown arrested for domestic assault
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Ian Brown was arrested on Monday on suspicion of assaulting his wife. The 46-year-old was detained in west London and taken to a police station before being released on bail. A statement from Scotland Yard said police were called to reports of a disturbance at a residential address shortly after 8am on 2nd November. Brown…
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Yo La Tengo – Interview
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Yo La Tengo have been on the go since the mid-eighties, consistently producing great albums, one after another. So consistent that they run the risk of being overlooked or taken for granted. Earlier in the year the band released a covers record under the alias Condo Fucks. In September they released Popular Songs, which is…
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Gemma Hayes for acoustic Crawdaddy performance
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Currently ensconced in a French recording studio with long-time musical collaborator David Odlum, Tipperary singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes will return to play an intimate acoustic show in Crawdaddy on December 4th. The performance will feature songs from the Meteor Award winner’s forthcoming fourth album, which is due in the new year. Support on the night will come from Ann…
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Marina & The Diamonds interview plus Heineken Green Spheres ticket giveaway
Next week sees the latest in the Heineken Green Spheres concert series, as Marina & The Diamonds head to Carlow to join German electro heavy weights Digitalism and Swedish newcomers Miike Snow for a special show at Dinn Rí on the 12th November. As usual you can’t buy tickets but we have two pairs of…
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