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Arriving a little late to a Matmos gig is a bit like gatecrashing a college lecture: by the time Ragged Words arrives this evening, Drew Daniel, M.C.... Artist page:
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A victory lap that felt "both well-deserved and well above... Artist page:
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Mike Hadreas's achingly intimate songs of loneliness and despair do not make for easy listening in the... Artist page:
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A younger and more enthusiastic crowd than one might expect from a band schooled in the ways of Jeff Mangum... Artist page:
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Texan post-rockers Explosions In The Sky brought their widescreen guitarscapes to one of Dublin's widest stages the other night, playing their... Artist page:
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Sufjan Stevens certainly knows how to put on a show. Backed by around a dozen illuminous Tron-suited horn players/pianists/drummers/... Artist page:
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Fresh from appearing at last weekend's... Artist page:
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Irish playwright Samuel Beckett once remarked: "James Joyce tries to put everything in; I try to take everything out." On their debut, 2008's... Artist page: Wild Beasts
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One couldn't feel particularly envious of... 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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