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Las Robertas
I love the fact that female-fronted fuzzy garage pop bands like the Dum Dum Girls, Best Coast and Vivian Girls are now ‘en vogue’. For some of us, the love for that sort of music never went away, but others are just discovering how wonderfully brilliant it is. Thanks to the fantastic feminist music blog…
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Groom get ready to release new album – here’s a taster…
Album cover designed by Ruan Van Vliet, using photos by Cait Fahey and Jody Miller Dublin band Groom are getting ready to release their latest album, ‘Marriage‘, which is scheduled to drop this month. To launch the record, they have a gig planned for 21 August at the Lower Deck in Portobello, Dublin. I’ve had…
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Moon Duo Q&A interview
Moon Duo are the mystical side-project of Erik Johnson from bearded space-rockers Wooden Shjips. With bandmate Sanae Yamada on keyboards, Erik gets to delve further into the hazy world of fuzzy electronic-tinged psychedelia and the results are pretty damn lovely. There’s a real blissed-out feel to their music….like Silver Apples, Moon Duo carry you into…
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Listen to the Solar Bears interview on Sweet Oblivion, 2XM
So, y’all know I’m a big fan of Solar Bears – and I was delighted to get to interview John from the band for last week’s show. In case you not familiar with them, Solar Bears are a Dublin-Wicklow based band and fans of Tangerine Dream, Bibio, Cocteau Twins and Russian cult movies will adore…
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Make a Pledge for Laura Sheeran
Irish musician Laura Sheeran – one of my favourite musicians at the moment and a woman whose live shows are simply mesmerising – has become the first person in the Republic of Ireland to start a Pledge Music account. This is a way of helping Laura to release her debut full-length album proper as well…
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Road Records to close
For the second and final time, Dave and Julie of Dublin’s Road Records have announced that they are to close the doors on their independent record store. Since it opened in 1997 it has been a mainstay for music nerds, musicians and record collectors, and a constant fixture on the Irish music scene. Just like…
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You Could Be Theo Parrish…
Today I am mostly listening to this gorgeous mix made by a dear and talented friend of mine, Kim aka Daydream Nation, (man, I wish I had her mixing skills!!) which features: art ensemble of chicago – proverbes scott ferguson – revolution (main mix) black jazz consortium – steps beyond workshop 06 – untitled b1…
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The obsession continues…Janelle Monáe performs Prince tribute
Yes, I do tend to get obsessed with certain artists to the point that it annoys everyone around me, but what the hell. My current obsession (replacing Zola Jesus, who is certainly worthy of obsession) is Janelle Monáe, and now that I have gotten my paws on her album, Archandroid, and listened to it like…
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Sweet Oblivion 27 May – listen on SoundCloud
I’m currently putting together this week’s Sweet Oblivion – so here’ s last week’s show for your aural pleasure: It features Dept of Eagles, Zola Jesus, The Acorn and lots of other great bands – hope you enjoy it! If you click through here you can find the full set list.
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Benoit Pioulard – live set download
I’ve probably mentioned it once, twice, thirty-three times already, but one of my absolutefavouritealbumsofalltimeohyes is ‘Precis‘ by Benoit Pioulard. Benoit Pioulard (real name Thomas Meluch) has released two full-length records on the legendary Kranky label, as well as a decent handful of 7″s, eps and a collaboration with Praveen, called ‘Songs Spun Simla’. I can’t…
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