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Cork Rock City
About a day after I’d submitted my article to the Irish Times on Cork’s underground, I discovered that the Drop-D site was about to release a free download of music by Cork bands. It’s a particularly good omen that Cork has had the national spotlight shone on its music scene twice within the space of…
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Bigmouth Strikes Again
The Smiths nerds unite! I love this: A presenter with BBC’s Springwatch, Chris Packham, casually slips in one Smiths reference in each of his episodes. If, like me, you feel a warm glow of pride when you watch this, you’re probably very far gone in terms of music nerddom. If you were in Chris’s place,…
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Make some Nouveaunoise
Nouveaunoise have their new PANAKA EP up for free download here, and it’s a cracker. Panaka has fuzzy vocals, tinkling synths and a funky drumbeat that will make you want to get off your ass and dance, while the intro to Psychasonic is what would happen if Belle & Sebastian (it’s all in the flute)…
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For Your Eyes & Ears: Orange Juice – Rip it Up – Top of the Pops
This Orange Juice video is gold, GOLD I tell you! My favourite bits: *The super-smiley dancers in front of the stage (especially the woman miming the lyrics) *The dancers in spandex and short shorts – especially when they start ripping up sheets of paper (around 2.15mins) *Edwyn’s awful miming (so funny!) and Malcolm and David’s…
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Interview: Darwin Deez
Darwin Deez plays the Academy 2 in Dublin tonight, and played Cork last night. So in honour of his visit, here’s a recent interview I did with him for the Evening Echo. Nope, I didn’t ask about his hair… The Evolution of Darwin Deez By Aoife Barry WHAT would music be without Darwin Deez, the…
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Groom’s Golden Age
One of the best things about moving to a new city is finding new music – discovering bands that may not be well known (yet) in your previous home town, or bands that simply haven’t fallen onto your radar. When I moved to Dublin two years ago, Groom were one of the bands I was…
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Open ears: New Music Roundup
Melodica Deathship Irish hip hop is a pretty small market, and I often feel that those who become hip-hop musicians/rappers are particularly brave souls. When you think of hip hop, you don’t often picture an Irish guy or girl at the mic, but thankfully there are people brave and talented enough to break into this…
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Have a spooky Halloween with the evil Yeh Deadlies…
It’s Halloween tomorrow – All Hallow’s Eve, the night where all sorts of spooky happenings and evil deeds are done. It’s also a night where folk from around the country get dressed up in costumes and facepaint and meet friends to imbibe substances which may cause them to have an out of body experience….or wake…
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New Music for Your Ears: I Hate You, Just Kidding
Oh yes, this duo is cute: boy-girl couple Jessi Fulghum and Jeremy Brock, aka I Hate You, Just Kidding, who make cute folk-dashed indie-pop that is just on the right side of twee. I found them via the lovely Gluttonous Vegan, who knows her shiz. I Hate You, Just Kidding are based in Costa Mesa,…
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For Your Ears: Elliott Smith Mixtape
Can it really be seven years since Elliott Smith passed away? Every year that his anniversary rolls around, every 21st October, I’m still taken aback by how long it has been. If he were alive now, he would be in his forties. Would he still be making records? What would he be doing? We can…
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