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New music: Shane Linehan
Cork has a great history of producing influential electronic music – it’s home to the long-running Fish Go Deep clubnight, for example, which was based in the legendary Sir Henry’s club and now resides in The Pavilion. Throughout the decades there has been a steady amount of people making house and techno in particular but the…
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Peter Delaney & Cian Nugent
I’ve seen Peter Delaney perform twice now in the past two weeks, and by gosh if I haven’t fallen tongue-lollingly in love with his music. Ukeleles can often be associated with tacky, Hawaiian pop songs or ‘quirky’ tunes, but in the hands of someone like Delaney they become a perfectly miniature way of crafting a…
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Soundcloud sounds: Toby Kaar, Sacred Animals remix
I’m not too sure how this one almost passed me by, but Toby Kaar has a new remix on his Soundcloud, this time of the Sacred Animals track Wired, Islands. What I love about Toby’s remixes is that they’re never what you expect – there are twists and turns, jolts and jerks and moments when…
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State vs…Sweet Oblivion
Hey folks, if you’re out and about in Dublin tonight and hankering for some live music to go with your beer, then pop along to the Mercantile on Dame St for some State vs Sweet Oblivion action. The lovely folk at State (where I have contributed articles over the past couple of years) asked me…
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Agnes Obel
I’ve already waxed lyrical about my love for Dustin O’Halloran‘s latest album, Lumiere, and I’ve gotten such a buzz out of hearing from other people who’ve fallen for it too. It’s a work of beauty, check it out. Here’s another album that I fell for last year and seeing as its creator is playing in…
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Just like a drawing…
Female musicians and polyrhythmic-post-punk go together like jam and toast. Sweet!
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Dustin O’Halloran – Lumiére
This album is breaking my heart already. Released on the FatCat label, Lumiére is a piano-based record that not only features the ACME string ensemble (they’ve worked with Grizzly Bear, Nico Muhly and more) but was mixed by Johann Johansson and has Peter Broderick on violin and Adam Wiltzie of Stars of the Lid on…
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Meljoann interview / Klaxons interview / Janelle Monáe review
Some recent articles of mine: An interview with the fantastic Irish electronic musician Meljoann on Thumped.com A Q&A with James from The Klaxons on Heineken Music. Review of the recent Janelle Monáe gig on State.ie I’ll have an interview with Jonathan from The Drums on Heineken Music soon.
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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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