I love how this has caused a furore over here. It’s just a music magazine (albeit now at a cheaper €4.95) with a FREE CD featuring Heathers, Fight Like Apes, Adebisi Shank, Halfset, The Jimmy Cake, Mumblin’ Deaf Ro, The Vinny Club, Jape vs Delorentos and more. This country. You people. There’s also an article by myself about the Illegal Art label which talks to Girl Talk and Steinski about music copyright and sampling. it is accompanied by superb illustration from BrenB. Forget about Abba, buy it for that and tell me what you think.

Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
sound!
this looks like the best issue yet.
(apart from the one with the !kaboogie article of course!)
look forward to that illegal art article, and the cd.
nice one nialler
What does the Sigur Rós article cover?
Always like a free CD but I’m buying it for those Abba people. 🙂
[quote post=”1395″]What does the Sigur Rós article cover?[/quote]
Their recent NYC MoMA performance, the video of which is going up on state.ie in about 10 minutes.
looks deadly. fair play
AND cash has been saved at the printers by changing the name of the mag to ‘Stat’. I’ll get me coat…
LOL @ the entire Irish Times thingy and everyone involved.
Including you Nialler.
But especially YOU.
Woooo! cheaper AND free CD. I will be buying this from now one. Good work State!
Dorian Gray’s one and all.
looks great. ABBA are one of my favourite bands ever, so am looking forward to picking this up when I get back to the old country.
Go State for putting them on the cover!
Funnily enough the HMV sticker, which sits just above the “under a fiver” line, proudly charges €5.50 for the magazine.
[quote post=”1395″]Funnily enough the HMV sticker, which sits just above the “under a fiver” line, proudly charges €5.50 for the magazine.[/quote]
monday morning task to sort out so. thanks aidan.
that illegal art piece was class, nialler. nice one.
aint got to check oot the cd yet, but it looks damn good.