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As the tension mounted at last week's Meteor Choice Music Prize Live... Artist page:
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Arguably the most prestigious night in the Irish musical calendar, the Choice Music Prize... Artist page:
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Indisputably one of the finest songwriters of all time, Bruce Springsteen is also perhaps the greatest live... Artist page:
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First Aid Kit have come a long way since their last visit to Dublin. That was almost three years ago, when the Swedish sibling duo... Artist page: First Aid Kit
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He had hinted last week that he might break out a Waterboys cover or two, and last Friday night at his band... Artist page:
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"There is a freedom in violence that I don't understand / And like I've never felt before..."
The last time Merrill Garbus' ... Artist page: tUnE-YaRdS
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Boisterous Kells rockers Ham Sandwich played their biggest headline show to date over the weekend in front of a capacity crowd at Dublin's Academy.... Artist page:
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Since scoring big with 2009's now-ubiquitous summer jam 'Let's Go Surfing',... Artist page:
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With the sun beating down on Dublin for much of the past week, it's almost as if the weather gods are already gearing up for this summer's fast-approaching festival season. Or maybe we're just going to get (another) one of those weird 'Indian summers in reverse', where March, April and May are nicer than they should be and then it pisses rain for the next three months solid. Who knows? But I digress...
Ragged Words was out to lunch washing its hair...
We remember being quite taken late last summer with Reptar's Ben Allen-produced debut EP, Oblangle Fizz Y'all, on which the Athens, GA quartet lived up to their cartoonish moniker with a bouncy collection of psychedelic pop jams. Giddy group chants, tumbling world-music grooves and exclamatory blasts of synth made for an upbeat, fun listen - crucially, the band members all sounded like they were...
"Can't see the wind but I see the trees sway..."
We hadn't even heard of Willis Earl Beal before the start of the year. Since then, the jack-of-all-trades Chicago native has had all the right people tweeting his praises. He's also been...
It's a fairly damp and dreary Monday here in Dublin, so we've been catching up with our good friends Vimeo and YouTube.
Below we've grouped together some of the more noteworthy music promos currently doing the rounds, along with relevant release info, tour details etc. for each vid. Enjoy our roundup, which features a mess hall knees-up, a 3-D seafaring adventure and a stroll through a deserted L.A. cityscape.
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