A disco special plus new tunes from Girl Band, Hud Mo, SBTKRT and more.
The Nialler9 TXFM show airs every Thursday night at 10pm for two hours. You can listen on 105.2FM, online, the TXFM app or if you missed it, on the listen back function on the site. Listen: Hour One Listen: Hour Two Hour One SBTRKT - ‘New Dorp. New York’ (feat. Ezra Koenig) Caribou – ‘Can’t Do Without You’… Read more »
Posted on July 25th, 2014
A dissonant no-wave/garage rock thriller of a new single from the Dublin band.
Clearly releasing one of the best songs this country has produced this year wasn’t enough. Girl Band have followed up their 7-minute abrasive monster with a three minute song called ‘De Bom Bom’ which revels in its slithery industrial rhythm, an effect that comes across like Daft Punk’s ‘Rollin & Scratchin’ made with fingers hurting… Read more »
Posted on July 24th, 2014
"A butcher, a baker or a candelabra maker..."
Another chapter in the Rubberbandits songbook. As sung by a puppet Gabriel Byrne. NSFW obviously. They are at the Edinburgh Fringe in the Gilded Balloon from July 30 to 25th August 2014.
Posted on July 24th, 2014
Plus the Dublin duo sign to Champion Sound Recordings.
Contour’s ‘Change Your Ways’ was one of those songs that got a big reaction here in the last year. Since October, the Irish duo of Conan Wynne and Anna Doran have released some tracks on Soundcloud and videos on Youtube as well as played their first live show (last weekend in The Grand Social). For… Read more »
Posted on July 24th, 2014
An exuberant rush of Mario Kart-like energy.
We’ve had the pulverising polychromatic parade stomp of ‘Big Unit’ and the live favourite ‘Voodoo Vision’, now, ‘World In Harmony’, the latest track from This Is The Third Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank out on Sargent House on August 12th, is the closest the band have come to soundtracking a track on Mario… Read more »
Posted on July 24th, 2014
On a release of a song involving Steve Averill released by his son Jon's label and remixed by his other son Gareth.
As one of the band’s featured in Darren McCreesh’s Irish post-punk compilation Strange Passion, SM Corporation, a band formed by Steve Averill after The Radiators From Space, have had a bit of overdue attention. After the compilation, the band performed with other bands of the era. Now, Averill’s sons, Jon and Gareth are involved in… Read more »
Posted on July 23rd, 2014
The title from the new EP is big brass brashness meets bleeps and beeps.
Both Lunice and Hudson Mohawke have returned to their own material now that TNGHT’s time is up for now. Lunice recently released the body-checking ‘Can’t Wait To’ and Hud Mo has announced a new 12″ EP called Chimes on Warp on September 26/29th. The title track follows on from the kind of work he was… Read more »
Posted on July 23rd, 2014
The first song from new album Wonder Where We Land features the Vampire Weekend frontman.
Sampha, Caroline Polachek, Koreless, Raury, A$AP Ferg, Jessie Ware, Denai Moore and Ezra Koening and Warpaint. That’s the guest lineup for SBTRKT’s new album Wonder Where We Land, out September 19th. As it happens we’ve already heard the first song ‘Temporary View’ but this funny little ditty ‘New Dorp. New York’ featuring Ezra Koening also… Read more »
Posted on July 23rd, 2014
A cosmic sonic ride to the far side.
Shabazz Palaces, the avant-hip-hop project of Ishmael Butler has taken a deeper turn into sculpting a world of Shabazz sound on new album Lese Majesty but not at the expense of engagement with the listener. Lese Majesty keeps moving, keeps searching by creating mellow musical vistas that seep into each other through synthesizers, sparse beats… Read more »
Posted on July 21st, 2014
