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In a word: genius.RelatedMy Roots Are Showing – QueenSingstar Queen – PS3, PS2
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Video: The Muppets vs Bohemian Rhapsody
Dance/Electronic roundup Nov 2009
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Manchester duo Demdike Stare combine deep Techno and horror movies on their two self-titled EPs. It's Volume 2 you want. The tracks have a Berlin feel to them, think deep, dubbed-out Techno like Basic Channel, Rhythm & Sound, etc. The stand-out track on EP Vol. 2 is 'Haxan', which takes its inspiration from the legendary…
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Video – New Pixies box set
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A suitably lush video guide to the new Pixies Minotour boxset has appeared online. The box contains all five of the band’s studio albums on 24K gold-plated discs and 180-gram vinyl. Minotaur will also come with both a 96-page fine art book and a 52-page photo book, a bookmark signed by all the members of the Pixies,…
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Jools Holland – Later Live 2
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The compilation is dead. Or at least, with iTunes, Spotify and the like edging ever deeper into out musical consciousness, it’s difficult to see how it’s going to survive much longer. After all, what would be the point in buying a CD full of tracks someone else has picked when you can hand pick the…
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Massive Attack to release Helgioland in February
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After the recent release of the Splitting the Atom EP and a successful Dublin jaunt, the Bristol duo have announced that their fifth album will be called Heligoland and will be released on EMI’s Virgin Records on February 9th, 2010. Damon Albarn, Hope Sandoval, Martina Topley-Bird, Guy Garvey and Tunde Adebimpe all guest on the record…
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Spiral Stairs – The Real Feel
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As one of the main contributors to Pavement in the 90’s, then Preston School of Industry for the last decade, Scott Kannberg is now the man and main contributor behind Spiral Stairs. This album still features the members of Preston but the sound here is very much his own as opposed to the bands’. This…
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Primavera Sound 2010 bands announced
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Following the announcement of some nostalgia in the form of Pixies and Pavement, the organisers of Primavera have announnced the following as the first batch of bands to play the festival from the 27th to the 29th of May 2010.The AntlersThe Bloody BeetrootsCamarón: La Leyenda Del Tiempo 30 Años Después (Duquende and Chicuelo amongst…
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No tour dates planned for Daft Punk
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Some blogs have recently reported that French dance legends Daft Punk would play a night in Dublin’s O2 next summer, unfortunately this is untrue. EMI have been in touch to squash any rumors of a Daft Punk tour next year, stating “There are no tour dates currently planned for Daft Punk. The recent rumors of…
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Atlas Sound, Whelan’s
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“Was that the time I played ‘Don’t Fear the Reaper’ for about twenty minutes, no? Oh yeah I think that was in Australia”… Bradford Cox is in a reflective mood tonight, perhaps it’s the culmination of a never-ending touring schedule coupled with the ingestion of some ‘refreshments’ that’s leaving him suffering from de-ja-venue but whatever…
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Feedback festival announced for Whelan’s in December
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Feedback festival will take place on Saturday, December 5th in Whelan’s with both the main venue and upstairs in use for the night. Feedback 2009 aims to:…shine a light on some of the Irish acts that have broken through this year with fantastic album releases. The festival will also feature some Irish bands that…
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Chic to play Tripod May 2010
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After their triumphant Electric Picnic set, classic ’70s disco legends Chic are to return for a show in Tripod on Friday 28th May 2010. Tickets €37.50/42.50 (inc. booking fee) available from Ticketmaster, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets. www.ticketmaster.ie.RelatedElectric Picnic 09 – Saturday [Niall Byrne]
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U2 confirmed for Glasto headliner
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U2 will headline the Friday night (June 27th) at Glastonbury in 2010 for the first time ever. Just after 2009’s event ended Michael Eavis suggested that one of the best bands in the world who had never played the festival were interested. Eavis said:“The 26-year-old rumour has finally come true. At last, the biggest…
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State Mix #10 – Nakatomi Towers
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Belfast’s most promising girl/boy electro-pop duo Nakatomi Towers have gifted us a sweet remix-heavy electro mix to share with you. It also serves as our first milestone being the 10th official State.ie mix since we started. As well as standing out for their catchy tunes like ‘Cut Me Out’, Dave and Julianne are also keen…
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Kiss announce European Tour
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Glam rock legends Kiss will bring their “Sonic Boom Over Europe: From the Beginning To the Boom” tour to Europe next summer. Buzzing on the success of this year’s Sonic Boom album the 2010 tour will see dates in Ireland, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Demark, Holland, France, Spain, Belgium, the UK…
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Joss Stone interview
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The nice lady from the record company tells us that she’s ‘putting us through to Joss Stone now’ so we prepare ourselves. Silence. A few beeps, then more silence. Finally a well spoken, young and very English voice comes on the line. We make small talk, commenting on the nightmare of these trans-Atlantic hooks ups.…
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Jason Segel appears on stage with The Swell Season
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Actor Jason Segel, who is known for his roles in I Love You Man, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and of course, Freaks and Geeks popped up on stage at The Wiltern in Los Angeles during the week to perform his own original song. According to the Youtube video description: The band was at a restaurant in…
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Fred – Academy 2, Dublin
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You may not know Fred but the chances are you will be familiar with one, if not more, of their songs. Over the past year they have become a firm fixture on Irish radio with a series of singles off third album Go God Go that have seen them take their suitably off-kilter Cork roots…
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Twilight: New Moon
The reddened interior of the Savoy cinema is a broth of hormones and anticipation as a few hundred school girls squeal piercingly as the curtains roll back for the preview screening of New Moon, the Twilight sequel. Security has been tight. All mobile phones and iPods have been confiscated on arrival and sealed in ziplock…
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The Witch And The Robot: On Safari
Like a throwback to the early days of Hawkwind, Jethro Tull and other quintessentially British musical absurdists (even mythical speed metallers Sabbat), The Witch And The Robot deal in decidedly weird folk/prog fare (or should that be fayre), with enough quasi-mystical lyrics to embarrass a sci-fi convention. That said, it seems this particular bunch of…
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Dragon Age: Origins – X360, PS3, PC
Not since an early teenage flirtation with Dungeons & Dragons has State ever really embraced the role playing genre with anything even approaching gusto, so it’s a testament to just how good Dragon Age: Origins is that we’ve lost sleep, been late for work and even spent time on a bus worrying about which Dwarven faction for…
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