Watch MTV’s Beastie Boys Beastieography documentary

This was first aired in 1998 and my friend Ciaran recorded it for me on…

Strange Passion – A compilation of Irish post-punk, DIY and Electronic music 1980-83

Curated by former Maximum Joy and current B-music DJ Darren McCreeesh, Strange Passion is a…

Album stream roundup: Beach House, Best Coast, Killer Mike, Niki & The Dove, Damon Albarn, Policia…

The best of new album streams this week in A-Z form. See recent album streams…

Icona Pop – ‘I Love It’ (video)

I should probably hate this but it’s just an amazing pop song. It’s big, brash…

Watch A Joyful Slog – a documentary on Irish independent music culture

A Joyful Slog is a one-hour documentary exploring the essential and necessary rise of do…

Sunless 97
Band of Blogs: Sunless 97, Opossum, Donora & Emma Louise

Sunless 97 Body Weather is the dreamily pleasant song from this London trio which spends…

Premiere: Listen the debut EP from Popical Island’s new Galway band Dott

After debuting themselves to the world in January, Galway garage band Dott have shacked up…

Listen to the I Am The Cosmos / Ships Synth Eastwood 7″

Now, here’s a good idea. Combine the two brightest electronic disco-dance bands in Ireland at…

Video: GOODTIME – ‘Come With Me (Take the Night)’

A video for the warming last track from Goodtime’s The Colours Of Darkness album, one…

REID – ‘Miami’

Today is a good global day for Irish music on the internet it seems. Sacred…

Sacred Animals vs. Steffaloo – ‘On Fire’

Since releasing his debut Welcome Home EP, Darragh Nolan aka Sacred Animals has been delving…

last Days of 1984
Premiere: Stream Last Days Of 1984’s debut album – Wake Up To The Waves

When Darren Moloney and Brian Rice debuted their Last Days Of 1984 project with ‘River’s…

Five reasons why Irish trad has been reinvigorated in 2012

Update: A few people have taken issue with my opinions below. Let me just stress…

Not Squares – ‘Fall Far’

When Not Squares dropped into the Button Factory in Dublin a couple of weeks ago,…

Band of Blogs: The Suzan, Hidden Highways, Phantom & Baio

Every Friday, I pick out four new music picks from the best of the music…

Squarepusher – ‘Drax 2’

More new Squarepusher from new album Ufabulum. Business as usual = an orgy of bleepy…

El-P – ‘Tougher Colder Killer’ feat. Killer Mike and Despot

“I slapped the motherfucker so hard, his mother just called him and said ‘Baby, you…

Is this a new mix from The Avalanches?

I started this blog in 2005. The Avalanches‘ brilliant Since I Left You album was…

Listen to CYMBALS – Sideways, Sometimes EP

Sometimes you just need a full body of work to digest rather than scraps of…

Grimes – ‘Genesis’ (live on Later with Jools Holland)

Grimes did herself a great service in the great buzzband of 2012 stakes with this…

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