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Anybody not convinced by me banging on about Battles out there? Have a look at the video for the single. It suits the song amazingly well and shows the band doing what they do best - performing together. I bought my ticket for the Music Centre gig today. To say I’m looking forward to is [...]
It seems Def Jux is a little jealous of Stones Throw Records collaborations with animated panic-spreading geniuses Adult Swim so they decided to get on the free mixtape action too. It’s called Definitive Swim and features tracks from Def Jukies Aesop Rock, Cage, Mr. Lif, Rob Sonic, El-P amongst others. You can download the [...]
Brooklyn synth-pop trio Au Revoir Simone are playing in Whelans this Wednesday in support of their second album The Bird of Music which is out now. Its a more assured and layered piece of work than last year’s Verses of Comfort, Assurance and Salvation but is a lot more melancholic than I was expecting. At [...]
Free albums are wonderful things. No strings attached, no pressure to enjoy, if you like one or two songs then it was worth the download. Well here’s another one for you but I happen to think there’s more than one or two gems on this.
Alan O’Boyle aka Decal has released an album on his [...]
So Oxegen has officially announced a line-up that includes Arcade Fire, Muse (shudder), Snow Patrol (double shudder), Daft Punk, Razorlight, Bloc Party, Kings Of Leon, Interpol, Tori Amos, Amy Winehouse, CSS, The Fratellis, The Kooks, Babyshambles ( No festival is complete without forty NME *hopefuls* ), Klaxons, James Morrison, The Goo Goo Dolls (LOL!) [...]
So I’ve had a chance to hear this mix since mentioning my uneasiness about Aesop working with Nike. It’s a very decent 45 minute mix of organic sounding instrumental hip hop with repeating phrases and verses throughout. Aesop explains his reasoning on why he chose to work with Nike and how he approached making it:
Being [...]
RJD2 has an interesting competiton going at the moment over at iMeem. Seeing as his The Third Hand record is not out yet, the idea is to give you the original samples that made up the songs on the album and let you fuck about with it. So seeing as you shouldn’t have heard *most* [...]
Another day, another excuse to mention Battles, my favourite math-rock band, the only math-rock band worth mentioning these days. They will be releasing a new album on May 15 entitled Mirrored through Warp. Preceding that is a single “Atlas” alongside a remix from DJ Koze. The album will feature vocals and a Pitchfork writer recently [...]
Ah…. music blogging. It’s all about the present, the here and now. Just look at the Hype Machine’s popular searches if you don’t believe me. Sometimes though, it’s nice to go back and revisit albums in your collection: some you love, some you’ve forgotten, some you never appreciated in the first place. Edan’s 2005 album [...]
Wow, really didn’t expect that. nialler9 made the shortlist for all the Irish Blog Award categories it was voted in: Best Blog, Best Music Blog and Best Designed Blog and it’s all down to you guys, who voted for the site. Excellent, thanks to every one of you, you’re all legends. Congratulations to all the [...]
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