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Yes, that’s Tay Braxton from Battles in 2002 pretending to be a temp at a Boston law firm in an article called Temp Hides Fun, Fulfilling Life From Rest Of Office.
“At a job like this, where you’re surrounded by angry, perpetually stressed-out lawyers who are working 80 hours a week, it’s important to hide the [...]
Check out the new State Mix courtesy of DJ Halfdutch!
It’s a 27 minute mix of jumpjive, rhythm n blues, reggae, ska, funk, latin & more.
State.ie: State Mix #2: Jumpjive, Reggae, Ska, Funk by DJ Halfdutch
By the way, our second issue is out this Thursday.
One of the most interesting and unique singers, Camille from France (not to be confused with Camille O’ Sullivan) is back with a new album out this week called Music Hole. A slightly harsh title which means exactly what it says. The new album is largley sung in English using loads of strange vocal techniques [...]
Mellow, humble, Danish, eight-piece, jodhpurs, violin, trumpet, piano, drumsticks. Mmmmmm.
By the skin of our teeth, we finally got the March Podcast done. A couple remixes here from Boards of Canada and XXXChange, a MGMT/Lil Kim mashup, new tunes from Outkast, Chemical Brothers featuring Spank Rock, El Guincho, Crystal Castles and Envelopes. We dedicate this podcast to Paul Watson (Write code, Get money). Aoife presents [...]
Check out this megamix (I normally run screaming from that term, but this is good) of Del the Funkee Homosapien’s tunes - old and new. New cuts from the Eleventh Hour album and classic Del rhymes - collabs with El-P and Gorillaz, ‘Mistadobalina‘ . It was mixed by El-P’s DJ Mr Dibbs.
Bonus Eleventh Hour [...]
Hit this tomorrow night…
Foggy Notions & !Kaboogie present
KODE9 (Hyperdub / Tempa), VARIOUS PRODUCTIONS (Various / XL), Don Rosco (Bassbin / Wobble) + Richie Kaboogie.
Friday 28th March
The Vaults, Connolly Station/IFSC, Dublin 1
15 euro
I set myself a challenge yesterday. A small one. I promised myself I would stay out long enough for El Guincho’s debut Irish show in Crawdaddy which was to start last night at 1am. I was already out at the Electric Picnic launch at 7pm, so after that it was upstairs in Whelans, where Adrian [...]
Update: Deleted rumoured line-up to save confusion.
Deep breath…
Sex Pistols, Sigur Ros, Grinderman, Franz Ferdinand, George Clinton & The P-Funk Allstars, My Bloody Valentine, Goldfrapp, Christy Moore, Wilco, The Gossip, Duffy, Underworld, Tinariwen, CSS, Tindersticks, New Young Pony Club, Josh Ritter, Lisa Hannigan, Cathy Davey, That Petrol Emotion, The Breeders, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Sinead O’Connor, [...]
Taken from my Myspace page, which is the only reliable gig calendar tool I have. These are all the shows I’m planning to go to until early June and it’s still probably missing a few.
What do you say? Care to make some more suggestions? What did I leave out?
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