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…

Aoife Mc on Saudi Arabian music censorship

Aoife grew up in Saudi Arabia. She has an interesting post about her time there…

Celine Dion is amazing

33⅓ is a series of books written about important and seminal albums in music lineage.…

Forthcoming: Cadence Weapon – Afterparty Babies

Cadence Weapon AKA Edmonton, Canada resident Rollie Pemberton released Breaking Kayfabe last year. It featured…

Forthcoming: M83 – Saturdays = Youth

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

Irish Blog Awards – Nomination Time

Nominations are open >> I’d appreciate a vote or two 😉 A couple of rules…

Best of 2007 Wrap-up: Gigs and Remixes

My laptop’s Christmas present from me was an impolite wine spillage on the keyboard resulting…

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…

Christmas gig guide

Things are about to wind down for the season but there’s no better time to…

Podcast #10: Top Irish EPs of 2007

I had the notion months ago that December’s podcast would feature all Irish music and…

Results: Top Irish albums of 2007

There were only ever four real contenders for this once the voting started. The top…

Thom Yorke Eraser remixes available now

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

Girl Talk, Foggy Notions Xmas Party

For one night only last Thursday, Whelans turned into an amalgamation of sorority/fraternity parties usually…

DJ Krush to play Dublin in January

Japan’s legendary hip hop DJ, DJ Krush is playing The Sugar Club on 24th January…

Final Fantasy @ Vicar St

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

Miriam Ingram – Trampolonica launch

Tonight sees the launch of Miriam Ingram’s remix album Trampolonica based on the original songs…

Voting closes Tuesday @ Noon

So if you haven’t already, leave a comment or drop me a mail, telling of…

Music Board of Ireland Documentary

Here’s a music documentary you won’t be seeing in its entirety on Irish TV any…