From the Basement

This looks like it could be worth a look. From The Basement is a live…

Top Brass

Most of you probably know Herb Alpert already and it’d be pretty surprising if any…

Top Irish albums of 2006 poll: Vote!

I’ve been compiling my end of year album and songs list over the past few…

The case of the Mystery Techno Mix

Hello all, Mike here. Today I have a treat for techno afficionados (but maybe not…

New El-P

2 new songs from El-P forthcoming I’ll Sleep when you’re Dead album out in March…

Juana Molina live

Something about the revered anticipation that greeted Juana Molina as she took the stage in…

Top Ten Worst Sounding Records

Stylus scribe Nick Southall lists 10 albums which he considers to have bad production values…

Clipse – Hell Hath no Fury

Taken from Clipse’s forthcoming Hell Hath no Fury – an album considered to be a…

Deep Burial

Black Music is an apt title for Dublin duo Deep Burial’s latest release. It is…

Secret Ecuadorian Friends!

Nialler9 guest Mike here again to take you crazy kidz on a magical trip down…

Aaargh, how did I not know this?

Annuals, the band that have released one of my favourite albums of this year are…

Squarepusher BBC Culture Show

[youtube]uZ0LL1SJ-6U[/youtube] A brief interview from Squarepusher on the BBC’s Culture Show aired last month. As…

Playing catchup

The site was out of action over the weekend. The database is acting up so…

Live review: Metric in Spirit, Dublin, 2006

And so, another member of the musical juggernaut known as Broken Social Scene came to…

CSS Suxxx!!

CSS rocked the stage in the Village last night and wouldn’t let go until the…

LFO Live

Some photos and videos of last night’s LFO show, his first ever in Ireland. The…

Calexico, Beirut and a Hawk and a Hacksaw live

I was present at the above show in the Olympia on Thursday night thanks to…

Primal Skream

Digging deeper into dubstep over the last few weeks, I found Skream, currently man of…

The best of the blogosphere

Over the last few months, a barrage of posts on music blogs that I frequent…

Future Shorts short

It was a mad busy weekend for myself so there was no time to blog.…