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Tuesday February 16, 2010

A list of recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin.

Yeasayer (somehow pictured) is the big gig for me this week. Some great lineups from Wednesday’s Haiti Fundraiser to the Young Hearts Run Free BYOB gig on Saturday to the NME Awards show on Sunday. Loreana is putting on an interesting night of Yacht Rock on Thursday while a few of gigs are happening I was completely unaware of this morning: Fake Blood, Boy 8-Bit and Crystal Fighters. Wretch-rock purveyors Xiu Xiu play on Saturday. Check out their horrible video below. Sample MP3s below too.

Tuesday 16th February
- Trashed (Indie/Electro club) @ Andrew’s Lane Theatre (10.30pm, €5)
- C U Next Tuesday (indie/electro/pop/dance) @ Crawdaddy (11pm, €3/5)

Wednesday 17th February
- Haiti Fundraiser: David Kitt, Jape (solo electronic), Legion of Two, Patrick Kelleher & Goodtime John @ Whelan’s (€15)
- Phantom 105.2 Music Quiz @ The Sugar Club (€50 per table)
- Antics (indie club @ Crawdaddy (€5, 11pm)

Thursday 18th February
- Sidetracked (Indie, Dancey Disco) @ Chocolate Bar, The Pod (8pm – 11pm, Free)
- Alphastates (last gig), Herm, DC Experiment @ Whelan’s (€10)
- Soundcheck @ Spy (7pm, Free before 11pm/€5 – Screening of The Room – 9:30pm)
- PANDAmonium! Yacht Rock night @ Shebeen Chic (Free)
- Choice Cuts: The Beatdown – DJ Scope, Rizm, Olan @ The Pygmalion (Free, 10pm)
- Cancelled: ~~The !K Club: !Kaboogie Residents @ The Cavern, The Good Bits (new venue) (Free, 8:30-12:30)~~
- Silent Front, Shlow, Riastradh, Children Under Hoof @ The Lower Deck (€7)
- Marina and the Diamonds album Listening Party Listen I Love @ The Chocolate Bar, The Pod (€5 with Marina giveaways / poster)
- Kitsune: Crystal Fighters @ Andrew’s Lane (11pm, €8)
- Fake Blood @ Twisted Pepper (€11.95)
- MUSIK presents Zemaria @ The Button Factory (10.30pm, €6)

Friday to Monday’s Listings »

Nice Nice – Extra Wow

Monday February 15, 2010

Jason Buehler and Mark Shirazi aka Nice Nice and their brand of “post-everything modern music” has been stunning the socks off me this past week. Their album Extra Wow is a must-have for anyone who digs an eclectic melting pot of sounds from fuzzy, fast-paced guitars to ambient drones to whistling-past-your-brain experimental electronics to squalls of feedback and big drums. It’s not out until April though it must be said.

‘See Waves’ is the perfect introduction to them though it requires maybe a few listens to truly love. It’s indicative of the album as a whole; dizzying tribal rhythms and a nod to a now Warp Records staple, label mates Battles. It’s only February but already Warp is on course for another great year with albums from Gonjasufi, Jamie Lidell, Autechre, Flying Lotus and Lonelady.

MP3: Nice Nice – Sea Waves

A Warp Nice Nice Player is below with some live video and more tunes from the record. You’re going to be listening to more of Nice Nice this year so you may as well start now. Download a couple of more tracks from Warp 2010 here.

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Martyn Fabric 50 promo mix

Monday February 15, 2010

Lovely new promo mix by Martyn for Fabric after the jump with tracks from Om Unit, Gil Scott Heron, Levon Vincent, DJ Killer, Renaissance Man and Martyn’s own tunes. Before you get to the mix itself though, here’s a killer AFX-esque remix from the man of Efdemin’s ‘Acid Bells’ from last year.

MP3: Efdemin – Acid Bells (Martyn’s Dark Mix)

Conor McCaffrey’s review of the released Fabric mix for State is here. More..»

Introducing: No Monster Club

Monday February 15, 2010

I can’t say I was a huge fan of what I heard of Dublin Duck Dispensary but Bobby Aherne’s new project is infinitely more satisfying to me. Brevity is the key here with No Monster Club. We get 10 lo-fi tropical surf-pop songs in 15 minutes on Tropical Decibels Volume Two par example.

Look out for official releases of Volumes One on Rack and Ruin in March, a song on a forthcoming Popical Island compilation, maybe a cassette release and a 16-track debut album in April. It’s rough around the edges but that only adds to the charm. Homemade video after the jumpyloo.

MP3: No Monster Club – Wish Me Well

MP3: No Monster Club – A Boyhood Scene

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Video: The Ambience Affair – Devil in the Detail

Monday February 15, 2010

Stunning music video for The Ambience Affair by Souljacker. NO video cameras were used in the making of this video. Instead, 15,000 still images make up the result seen here which was photographed in the Wicklow Mountains. Full-screen this one.

MP3: The Ambience Affair – Devil in the Detail

Order the band’s latest EP Patterns from Road.

MAP: The music blogger mixtape – Feb 2010

Monday February 15, 2010

Every month, MAP (Music Alliance Pact) asks 35 music bloggers across the world to share a track from their home country that they think you should hear. Ireland is represented this month by Autumn Owls. More..»

Neon Indian on Jimmy Fallon

Friday February 12, 2010

It’s Fallon time again. This time around, Neon Indian stepped in as a replacement for The Kings of Convenience and do their thing with a medley of ‘Terminally Chill’ and ‘Ephemeral Artery’. Stereogum dilligently reported that Fallon got into the band via the Shazam app on his iPhone. Questlove digs em too. This is the same band that played first warmup act to about 30 or 40 people in Dublin recently. Love it.

Introducing: The Cast of Cheers

Friday February 12, 2010

Or say hello to your new favourite Irish band.

Thanks to labels like The Richter Collective and the autonomous sphere of bands around the country making brilliant and mostly loud guitar music again (Adebisi Shank, ASIWYFA, Bats, Not Squares – to name a few) we can now add Dublin’s brilliantly-titled The Cast of Cheers to that list.

They’ve released their debut album Chariot via Bandcamp for FREE DOWNLOAD with a physical release coming in April. The album is a fully-formed 33-minute blast of post-punk, looping post-rock, tightly-wound songs with echoes of touchstones like Battles, Foals and Death From Above 1979.

It’s so good you’d wonder where this band appeared from? Some of them were involved in the band Abam so they’re not total newbies. Chariot is a breath of fresh air from a band I didn’t even know existed seven days ago. They’ll be supporting Super Extra Bonus Party in Andrew’s Lane Theatre on the 26th of February alongside Nakatomi Towers, Enemies and more.

Download their album now. Here’s three reasons why you should.

MP3: The Cast of Cheers – Derp

MP3: The Cast of Cheers – Auricom

MP3: The Cast of Cheers – Tigerfox