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In Photos: Ragged Words @ Elastic Witch, Dublin

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In Photos: Ragged Words @ Elastic Witch, Dublin

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In Photos: Ham Sandwich + little xs for eyes @ The Academy, Dublin (18.02.12)

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In Photos: Ham Sandwich + little xs for eyes @ The Academy, Dublin (18.02.12)

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Interview: The Drums - "People have always hated the music we make..."

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Interview: The Drums - "People have always hated the music we make..."

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Caught Live: tUnE-yArDs + Thread Pulls @ The Button Factory, Dublin (12.02.12)

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In Photos: Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin Launch Night - James Yuill + tieranniesaur @ Upstairs @ Whelans, Dublin (15.02.12)

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In Photos: Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin Launch Night - James Yuill + tieranniesaur @ Upstairs @ Whelans, Dublin (15.02.12)

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Album Review: Band of Skulls - Sweet Sour

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Album Review: Band of Skulls - Sweet Sour

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News: First Acts Announced for This Year's Electric Picnic

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News: First Acts Announced for This Year's Electric Picnic

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Album Review: Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball

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Album Review: Django Django - Django Django

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Caught Live: First Aid Kit + Samantha Crain @ The Workman's Club, Dublin (25.02.12)

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Caught Live: First Aid Kit + Samantha Crain @ The Workman's Club, Dublin (25.02.12)

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In Photos: The War On Drugs + Owensie @ Whelans, Dublin (24.02.12)

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Caught Live: All Tomorrow's Parties Presents... I'll Be Your Mirror USA, Curated by Portishead & ATP (Day Two) @ Asbury Park, NJ

On Saturday afternoon Geoff Barrow’s 'other' band BEAK> are, frankly, tremendous back at The Convention Hall. The...

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Caught Live: All Tomorrow's Parties Presents... I'll Be Your Mirror USA, Curated by Portishead & ATP (Day One) @ Asbury Park, NJ

So, ATP America scoots away from The Catskills to the infinitely more Rock'n'Roll (TM) surroundings of Asbury Park, New Jersey...

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In Photos: Girls @ Electric Ballroom, London (09.11.11) photogallery on Ragged Words

Long-time RW faves Girls stopped by Camden's Electric Ballroom on Wednesday night to showcase songs from their sublime sophomore album, ...

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In Photos: Ragged Words @ Elastic Witch, Dublin photogallery on Ragged Words

As many of you will already know, there's a brand new fixture on Dublin's sadly...

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In Photos: Sons & Daughters + Peggy Sue + Bonfire Nights @ The Ruby Lounge, Manchester (23.10.11) photogallery on Ragged Words

Glaswegian blues punks Sons & Daughters brought their eminently danceable live show to Manchester's Ruby Lounge the other week, showcasing...

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Caught Live: Other Lives + Gypsies on The Autobahn @ The Academy 2, Dublin (23.10.11) photogallery on Ragged Words

Talk about a square peg in a round hole... One of the most...

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Caught Live: WHY? (Acoustic Piano show) + Serengeti @ The Button Factory, Dublin

Reasons to be cheerful: it’s Saturday night, we’re in out of the rain at a seated show, and we're about to be served two prime...

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First Acts Announced for This Year's Electric Picnic

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...

 

2 Mar 2012
MPFree: Reptar - 'Sebastian'

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...

 

29 Feb 2012
Video: Willis Earl Beal - 'Evening's Kiss'

 

"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...

 

28 Feb 2012
Video Roundup: Beirut, Bear In Heaven, Lower Dens and More...

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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Beirut: 'Vagabond' // Taken from the Pompeii LP The Rip Tide (out now)

 

27 Feb 2012