Indie, Rock & Alternative

Video: Foals – Cassius

Foals are one of those bands that only make complete sense to me in an…

State Podcast: The Meteors, Choice Prize & Ham Sandwich

It’s all quiet around here as we’re putting the finishing touches to our first issue…

Super Extra Bonus Party – Everything Flows Video

Produced by Steve MacDevitt and Al Dunne.

Frank Black in Stephen’s Green.. any thoughts?

Poor aul Frank getting arrested for rock ‘n’ roll busking on the streets of Dublin.…

Grand Pocket Orchestra are deadly

I posted a review of their EP on State last week so this just serves…

Battles and Liars live

Another U:Mack show. In the lovely Vicar Street, May 15th. This lot: And this lot.

MGMT – Time to Pretend Video

Superb psychedelic video from Brooklyn’s MGMT taken from their album Oracular Spectacular. They have a…

Yeasayer – All Hour Cymbals

This is an album that I’ve been playing over and over throughout the last month…

WTF: A mulleted Billy Corgan from 1985

Trust Youtube to be the bearer of rather embarassing 23 year old footage of the…

Forthcoming: M83 – Saturdays = Youth

First off, a big HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all! I’ve been enjoying my Christmas-induced…

Barry’s top 3 albums you may have overlooked

Well its nearly the end of 2007 so I asked nialler if I could do…

Top 30 Albums of 2007

My subjective offering of albums I utterly loved this year. Ooh, and please don’t tell…

Thom Yorke Eraser remixes available now

The long-promised Eraser remixes have finally been released in mp3 format today with 12″ formats…

Final Fantasy @ Vicar St

Owen Pallett was received quite reverentially from the seated crowd last night. I enjoyed the…

Favourite Songs of 2007

I relish compiling lists. So much so that I ended up with a list of…

13 Things you may have missed this week

I’m back from a great week in Poland (not as cold as Ireland despite my…

nialler9 Podcast #9: November

Well, myself and Aoife are heading off to Poland for the week so we are…

Jape signs to Co-op label

After the folding of V2, many artists were left to find a new home. Thankfully…

The Go! Team, Cadence Weapon and the marketing sharks

Where to start with last night’s gig? Let’s start with the positive. The Go! Team…

Caribou @ Whelans

After missing out on previous Caribou shows I finally caught up with Dan Snaith’s live…