Discussions
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Sweet Oblivion – listen to the latest show
Thanks Soundcloud! Sweet Oblivion 9 September Teen Girl Fantasy – Cheaters – 7am (Forthcoming album) Matthew Dear – Soil to Seed (new track) Tiga – You Gonna Want Me – Sexor PVT (formerly Pivot) – Window – Church-With-No-Magic Don’t have the album? Sign up to the mailing list here http://warp.net/records/pvt/ to get a free download,…
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Thank you…
A huge thanks to the person or persons who submitted this site as one of their favourite Irish sites for this year’s Irish Web Awards in the music blog category. As Sweet Oblivion is not in the same league as the amazingly comprehensive music sites also on the list – Harmless Noise, Nialler9, Swear I’m…
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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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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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Janelle Monáe: ‘Just do great art that’s influential and inspiring’
It’s easy to forget that being a female pop star isn’t all about getting your breasts out, or fitting into a certain restrictive cookie-cutter mould. It’s easy to forget that you don’t have to look like Lady Gaga (a talented woman, that is without doubt, but a pop star whose image – quite literally at…
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Gerry Ryan’s legacy
Right now, like thousands (millions?) of people around Ireland, I’m listening to 2FM‘s special programming dedicated to the life of Gerry Ryan, who sadly passed away yesterday morning. People are ringing in, devastated at the news – not just his friends and colleagues, but everyday people like you and I who listened in to his…
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IMRO ho-ho
Update: Cast of Cheers and MIA Sparrow have pulled out of an IMRO gig at The Academy tonight. There is a Facebook group set up if you support the bands. By now you’ve probably all read about the ongoing IMRO vs Irish music bloggers debacle – if you haven’t, check out Nialler9 and On The…
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Remembering Elliott Smith
Elliott Smith died six years ago today. I remember the exact moment when I found out. I was in college, in the computer labs upstairs in the student centre. It must have been a Wednesday, like today, because I was getting ready to go next door to the Campus Radio studio and do my show.…
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