Linkage time!
- Album Covers in MS Paint.
- Does Red Star Belgrade ring a bell with anyone? If so you’ll be pleased to know that MP3Hugger is now releasing their out-of-print debut album from the mid ’90s digitally here for just €3.50.
- El-P wants to tell you your horoscope. Make sure you get the awesome We Are All Going to Burn in Hell Mixtape.
- Check out the latest My Tip Five podcasts under the themes of protest, genre, unrequited love and travelling.
- Max Tundra is releasing a limited edition soup can / digital download of his new and souperb latest album Parallax Error Behead You? Oh Ben..
- DubstepForum.com – the place for dubstep has shut down indefinitely. More info.
- A New Animal Collective album due in January? Or is it a visuals DVD?
- Thursday night sees Jape play The Button Factory. The night before the South Rakkas Crew takeover Tetric in the same venue. It’s good to see promoters and DJs blogging these nights like on The Climaxxx Blog (with South Rakkas MP3s too).
- A new blog which reviews Dublin lavatories? Bums on seats.
- You can watch the full Cornelius Sensuous DVD for a bit longer this week on Pitchfork.
- Oh the horror. Scooter turn Status Quo into a jumpstyle nightmare.
- Stress gigs for October in Galway:10th Oct: Juana Molina, Gareth Dickson, Vertigo Smyth, 21st Oct: Milosh, Chequerboard, 23rd Oct: Daedelus, Daddy Kev, 26th Oct: Jerry Dammers (The Specials) DJ set, 30th Oct: Stress Halloweeeeeeen Party.
- How good is SNL these days? First Tina Fey as Sarah Palin. Then a spot on Mark Wahlberg impression. Watch them at Una’s blog.
Did I miss anything? That’s your cue for the comments.
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.
The Japeman is on Thursday though.
Maybe he’d move the gig to cater for your plans, but really I think that’d be a bit selfish, Niall.
Noted and fixed. I keep doing that with the Jape gig switching the dates in my head.
Must be this 3 week old cold.
I know what you mean. I only realised this morning that I’m going to Bon Iver tonight. Too many good gigs to go to as usual. I’m gonna have to sacrifice the boozage in favour of the tunage. Though I might have a drink on Fri night.