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The last time State witnessed Morrissey in action was on the far side of the country, when he graced the stage of Galway’s Leisureland complex earlier this year. A Dublin date was not part of the tour schedule then but it was inevitable that he’d return at some point to make up for ...
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Morrissey
Here’s the new video for The Last Tycoons video for their single ‘The Dry Law’. The lads are putting on a special Christmas gig in The Good Bits in Dublin (formerly Radio City on Store Street) on Friday December 4th with support from Derry City’s Here Comes The Landed ...
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Mumford & Sons have announced a series of shows around the UK and Ireland for March of next year. The British folk outfit will stop off at The Academy in Dublin the night after Paddy’s Day having just played the The Academy 2 in September of this year (review here ).
It may not ...
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These days the term ‘supergroup’ has been over-used so much it’s virtually redundant. For every Cream, CSNY, Fantomas, or The Good, the Bad and the Queen, there’s a half-assed Mongrel snapping at the heels of good taste. Them Crooked Vultures are of a different pedigree altogether though. The ...
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Josh Homme
Dave Grohl
Led Zeppelin
Whelan’s plays host to the inaugural Homelights festival from 27th – 30th of November. The event, which is co-curated by Adrian Crowley and Foggy Notions, is a sister festival to London’s Homefires and Fife’s Homegame and, like its siblings, draws upon the themes of community and artistic ...
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The Weekend
The Doors
Coming to you via Clash Magazine , the latest video from the Spacious Thoughts album features the odd coupling of Kool Keith and Tom Waits. It is, it goes without saying, fantastic.
Related Kanye surprises NASA gig-goers with appearance in Cork
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N.A.S.A
The Clash
Tom Waits
Sunday 30th August 1992 had been a long day at the end of a long weekend. The Reading Festival was, by this point, fully back in the game after its relaunch in 1989. Ever reflecting the musical world at large, 1992 saw the growing influence of US alternative bands – although Buffalo Tom, ...
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Nirvana
2 Turntables & A Microphone: The Life and Death of Jam Master Jay is due for DVD release early next month, telling the story of Run DMC DJ Jay and the ongoing mystery surrounding his death in 2002.
Random Posts Sat 19th Jul – Analog: Silje Nes + Madam – Dublin – ...
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Run-D.M.C.
Lucien Revolucien, also known as Lucien M’B and Papalu, will be in Dublin this weekend to introduce the screening of Round Da Way/Les Lascars at the IFI, as part of their annual French film festival. Revolucien, who scored the movie, has been a hugely influential figure on the French ...
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Hip Hop
A bizarre alternative video for ‘You Got The Love’ has appeared online, transporting Ms Welch back to the 1960s and a French TV variety show. Stranger and stranger.
Related Florence and the Machine – You Got The Love video Electric Picnic 09 – Sunday [Hilary A. ...
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With their final three Irish dates for the foreseeable future kicking off with the ‘Acting The Maggot’ single release this Friday at the Twisted Pepper (first 200 through the door get a free copy), the B-side ‘If You Don’t Want To Know The Score, Look Away Now’ has ...
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Manchester duo Demdike Stare combine deep Techno and horror movies on their two self-titled EPs. It’s Volume 2 you want. The tracks have a Berlin feel to them, think deep, dubbed-out Techno like Basic Channel, Rhythm & Sound, etc. The stand-out track on EP Vol. 2 is ‘Haxan’, which takes ...
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Electronic
A-Trak
A suitably lush video guide to the new Pixies Minotour boxset has appeared online. The box contains all five of the band’s studio albums on 24K gold-plated discs and 180-gram vinyl. Minotaur will also come with both a 96-page fine art book and a 52-page photo book, a bookmark signed by all the ...
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Pixies
The compilation is dead. Or at least, with iTunes, Spotify and the like edging ever deeper into out musical consciousness, it’s difficult to see how it’s going to survive much longer. After all, what would be the point in buying a CD full of tracks someone else has picked when you can hand pick ...
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Keane
Adele
After the recent release of the Splitting the Atom EP and a successful Dublin jaunt , the Bristol duo have announced that their fifth album will be called Heligoland and will be released on EMI’s Virgin Records on February 9th, 2010.
Damon Albarn, Hope Sandoval, Martina Topley-Bird, Guy ...
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Massive Attack
As one of the main contributors to Pavement in the 90’s, then Preston School of Industry for the last decade, Scott Kannberg is now the man and main contributor behind Spiral Stairs . This album still features the members of Preston but the sound here is very much his own as opposed to the ...
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Pavement
Following the announcement of some nostalgia in the form of Pixies and Pavement, the organisers of Primavera have announnced the following as the first batch of bands to play the festival from the 27th to the 29th of May 2010.
The Antlers
The Bloody Beetroots
Camarón: La Leyenda Del ...
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Pixies
Pavement
Wilco
Some blogs have recently reported that French dance legends Daft Punk would play a night in Dublin’s O2 next summer, unfortunately this is untrue.
EMI have been in touch to squash any rumors of a Daft Punk tour next year, stating “There are no tour dates currently planned for Daft ...
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Daft Punk
“Was that the time I played ‘Don’t Fear the Reaper’ for about twenty minutes, no? Oh yeah I think that was in Australia”…
Bradford Cox is in a reflective mood tonight, perhaps it’s the culmination of a never-ending touring schedule coupled with the ingestion of some ‘refreshments’ that’s ...
