With Super Extra Bonus Party on an indefinite hiatus, the various members of the collective have been making music in other guises. Three members make up We Are Losers, one of those is also AdultRock, there’s Urban Response and now … Read More…
Yes Cadets play Crawdaddy on Saturday night with support from Funeral Suits and Talulah does The Hula. Tickets are a reasonable €8 in advance or €10 on the door. Here Cormac from Super Extra Bonus Party serves up a ravey … Read More…
Super Extra Bonus Party guitarist Gavin Elsted (DOI: He’s a good friend) has been busy lately with some solo projects. First as Adultrock which is mostly remix work (including that Adebisi Shank one) and now as We Are Losers, which … Read More…
New video for SEBP’s ‘Comets’ by Donal Mangan. The single is out this Friday digitally backed with a Skibunny remix. The Boners are playing some live dates this month: 13th Feb – Roisin Dubh, Galway, 20th Feb – Waterfront, Belfast … Read More…
Below you will find the countdown of the 30 albums that got the highest number of votes in the Irish album poll. There are some surprises in there to me. The number one album on the list actually won by a fair few points in the end. In a year where there was no clear favourite, it’s interesting to see such an album top the list. A few of the albums charted quite highly considering they were only released in the last month or so. Read More…
Yes, it’s still list season. As State kicks off its Top 50 of the year, here are my own top 30 albums of the year in four-page epic form. 30. Channel One – Sound to Light 29. Clark – Totem’s … Read More…
State.ie is holding a little get together tonight for anyone who’d like to come down and harass our writers and photographers for what we’ve done this year (Let’s keep it festive though yeh?). It’s taking place in the Shebeen Chic … Read More…
This Friday night sees Super Extra Bonus Party take over the Academy from 8pm to 2am for a headline show along with four other great Irish bands: Heathers, BATS, Le Galaxie and Band On An Island and DJ sets after … Read More…
Our beloved podcast is back from its unplanned summer diversion and while we were away, we received a nom for Best Podcast in the Irish Web Awards which is nice! It’s up against The Comic Cast, last year’s winner Playlist … Read More…
The excellent Night Horses has been out a couple of months now and now you can listen to it in full below. If you’ve been listening to the radio at all lately, you will have heard ‘Comets’ the poptastic tune … Read More…
It’s July 1st, the mid-point of the year, a good time to reflect on what we’ve been offered musically so far in 2009. There’s been some stonkers like Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective and Fever Ray but you know about them … Read More…
