Goodtime John is back – and he has a new EP that he’s kindly made available for free download here. Here’s what he has to say about it: “The songs on this EP were recorded by Phil Elverum in the Department of Safety in Anacortes, WA at the end of the summer of 2007. In…

I tried something a little different for my review of The Wave Pictures‘ ‘If You Leave it Alone’ – here’s a teaser: “Picture, if you will, a squinting young man. A light brown sweep of unbrushed hair flops over his right eye; on his lanky, 5’10 frame hangs a checked silk shirt, beneath which can…

Finding out you’re going to be a parent for the first time is a life-changing event for anyone. For Stockholm-based Corkonian Mark O’Sullivan, it was the inspiration for recording a solo album that’s been receiving nothing but positive praise since its release. ‘Fragments from a Long Country’ is Mark’s debut solo album – many will…

So, I’m off to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival tomorrow – on a 6.30am flight no less..zzzzzzzz I shall be back in about a week with: *All the info on how I got on in Edinburgh *A loooooooooooong overwaited post on new bands/new music – thanks to all the bands who’ve emailed me recently, I AM…

If you’ve been wondering where Waterford’s You’re Only Massive and Cork’s Queen Kong have got to, well here’s your answer: out foreign. QK’s Dave Murphy and YOM’s Maebh Cheasty have been uber (sorry, couldn’t resist…) busy putting the final touches to their H8R H8R studio and getting ready to unleash some new tunes on the…

Some readers may remember that I mentioned an American musician called Arman Bohn on my old blog a few months ago. I had spotted a link to the video for his unreleased song ‘Combat’ (below) on a friend’s facebook page and checked it out – and being the harmonies-obsessed synth-pop fan that I am, I…

Saw this link this morning on my WordPress dashboard and it made me titter: http://putt3r.com/topics/john-daly/ People looking up the golfer John Daly are ending up on my site probably slightly confused about his career as a house producer….

On to something a little less heavy – a video of Fleet Foxes playing ‘Drops in the River’ in Café Zapata in Berlin. I took this on my pretty basic digital camera (hence the bad sound, sorry!) and as you’ll see I was really bloody lucky and literally right in front of the band. It…