REVIEWS
Album reviews
Indisputably one of the finest songwriters of all time, Bruce Springsteen is also perhaps the greatest live...
Somewhat dubiously overlooked by this year's BBC Sound of... poll,...
The sound of a guitar being plugged in at the start of 'Sweet Sour' – which opens the new...
"We know we belong to the land / And the land we belong to is grand! / Oklahoma!"
“When things aren’t going quite as planned / You often hear the truth from your family and friends...”
Almost exactly two years ago, in reviewing Florence and the Machine’s debut LP, this writer surmised...
In case you've been in a coma for the past few years, the eighties have come back into fashion in music in a big way - or, to put it another way, they have put the ‘fashion’ back into...
Listening to Belfast's Cashier No.9, it’s hard to believe that frontman Danny Todd once plied his trade as one-third of mid-noughties electro rockers...
After the hit-and-miss mishmash of an album that was 2008's Evil Urges, it seemed almost impossible to guess which direction...
It’s been more than three years since Glaswegian quartet Sons & Daughters released their third album, the Bernard Butler-produced ...
Caught live
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 ope...
"There is a freedom in violence that I don't understand / And like I've never felt before..."
The last time Merrill Garbus' ...
Onstage stands a young man, Telecaster in hand. His early-nineties grunge hair sweeps across his face, a stark contrast to the shimmering golden jacket he is wearing. This is...
As the tagline of Guy Maddin's 2007 'docu-fantasia' masterpiece, My Winnepeg, proclaims: "The truth is relative". This is the...
Sunday brings me (in no particular order) bowling, a roast, an emo-ta-tha-bone beach, basketball,...
Saturday at ATP tells me this: Minehead does not possess a single mobile phone shop, or anywhere that might repair your car after midday at weekends. It does, however, have a lot of charity shops,...
Just over a year ago, Little Dragon performed at Dublin's Crawdaddy to an audience of not much more than a dozen punters. This evening, by contrast, havin...
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Well-read Northerners – and recent Lady Gaga remixers – ...
There has always been a sense of fragility attached to The Antlers, as if at any moment the band's material (and perhaps even the band members t...