Interview: Jason Pierce of Spiritualized

After yet another unfortunate bout of illness in which he battled liver disease, Jason Pierce…

Keep Shelly in Athens / Solar Bears
It’s the joint: Keep Shelly In Athens and Solar Bears in conversation

Tonight, Greek electronic pop duo Keep Shelly In Athens play Whelan’s in Dublin with Ginnels…

The 20 best bands I saw at SXSW 2012

This year was my fourth South By South West and before I left for Austin,…

Review: Azealia Banks @ Whelan’s, Dublin

All photos by Michael Rickard (Twitter). There’s no formula for hype but if you wanted…

Eurosonic 2012: The 10 best bands I saw

Having never visited Eurosonic before, I assumed it was your usual music industry festival type-deal.…

MMOTHS interview on State

State Magazine’s third annual Faces Of the Year series which picks out a selection of…

The Recommender’s top 5 new artists of 2011

The last of the top 5 new artists guest posts for 2011? I may have…

LYFSTYL’s top 5 new artists of 2011

Continuing the top 5 new artists guest posts now. Toronto-based LYFSTYL is one of my favourite…

Veronica Cream Team’s top 5 new artists of 2011

Almost at the home stretch of the top 5 new artists guest posts now. So…

Photo by Sean Conroy
Donal Dineen’s top 5 new artists of 2011

Following the recent closure of his long running Small Hours show on Today FM, Donal…

Elastic Witch’s top 5 new artists of 2011

Two years ago, I ran a series of guest posts from people involved in Irish…

Gugai’s top 5 new artists of 2011

Two years ago, I ran a series of guest posts from people involved in Irish…

Korallreven’s Top 10 DJ Chart

Korallreven hit town tonight for their debut Irish show in Twisted Pepper. The Swedish band…

Day 4 @ Other Voices 10: Wild Beasts, SBTRKT, Spiritualized, Ben Howard & King Charles

The final night of the St. James’ Church recordings and it’s possibly the best of…

Day 3 @ Other Voices 10: Edwyn Collins, Band Of Skulls, Frank Turner & Cherry Ghost

Saturday night and Dingle town is buzzing. It’s the third of the four nights of…

Interview with Twin Sister: “Soundtracks to movies that don’t exist.”

Long Island five-piece Twin Sister’s debut album In Heaven (album of the month for October)…

Warpaint, Plan B, K.Flay @ Jack Daniel’s Birthday, Nashville, Tennessee

Welcome to the spiritual rhinestone home of American country music – Nashville, Tennessee. Largely responsible…

Jape – ‘The Oldest Mind’ (video)

The polychromatic video for Ocean Of Frequency standout was produced by Brendan Canty aka Feel…

Berlin Festival 2011: Hangars, warehouses & dumbstep dancing in Deutschland

All photos by Killian Broderick. It might have been the week after Electric Picnic but…

An interview with Jonny Greenwood

It was 2003 when his score for Bodysong was released, when the world realised the…