Forbidden Fruit: 15 bands you should see this weekend

If you happen to be Forbidden Fruiting this weekend in Dublin, then here’s my picks…

Le Galaxie Point Break
Why are Le Galaxie dressed like the dudes from Point Break?

Because internet, this happens tonight.

A !Kaboogie Korker for Cork this weekend

!Kaboogie are indeed hitting Cork City this Saturday in the Triskel Theatre for a night…

Forbidden Fruit 2012 stage times

How d’ya like them apples?

Trinity Orchestra perform Radiohead in St. Michan’s Church and more in Block T’s Smithfield festival

BLOCK T have a festival lined up for the 25th to the 27th of this…

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…

RIP MCA, Adam Yauch, Beastie Boy

RIP Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch aka MCA who died today aged 47 from cancer. It’s…

Win weekend tickets to Camden Crawl Dublin

Next weekend, Camden Crawl will take place for the first time outside of its London…

Win tickets to Yacht’s Dublin gig with Tieranniesaur, Catscars & more

If you’re the kind of person who likes fun, then you will very much be…

Chairlift, Actress, Cloud Nothings, Holy Fuck, Purity Ring and more added to Forbidden Fruit

Some tasty additions to Forbidden Fruit today: Saturday 2nd June: Holy Fuck, Actress, Republic of…

Castlepalooza 2012 lineup: Ghostpoet, Solar Bears, The Charlatans, Little Green Cars, Young Wonder & more

The Charlatans, Ghostpoet, Solar Bears, Jape, Donal Dineen’s Parish Project, Mmoths,  Little Green Cars, King Charles, Jon Phonics,…

Indiependence announce lineup with 2manyDJs, Scroobius Pip, Jape, The Minutes, Toby Kaar & more

Indiependence Festival has announced the lineup that will play at Deer Farm in Mitchelstown Cork…

If there’s only one thing you do this weekend…

…Watch The Last Waltz in tribute to Levon Helm who passed away yesterday. The Band’s…

SBTRKT, Grandaddy, Squarepusher, Van Dyke Parks, Patti Smith and more added to Electric Picnic bill

Some real nice additions to Electric Picnic were just announced. Squarepusher! Van Dyke Parks! SBTRKT…

Win tickets to EXIT festival

With no Oxegen this year, you may be one of the many looking for an…

Hear The Cast Of Cheers – ‘Animals’ // new album details

The Cast Of Cheers have been busy prepping their second album (and first album to…

Sigur Ros – ‘Ekki múkk’

A serene blast of melancholic resplendence courtesy of everyone’s favourite instrumental Icelanders (Jonsi’s voice is…

Win tickets to see Breton in Dublin

Breton’s M.O. appears to be quite a confusing mix of Foals-esque dynamics, avant-garde These New…

The 20 best bands I saw at SXSW 2012

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

Watch live sets from the Nialler9 SXSW party feat. Clock Opera, Body Language, Mmoths…

SXSW is like a suspension of normal reality when it comes to gigs, events and…