The National – Bryce Dessner Interview
Aside from playing guitar with the National, Bryce Dessner has made him name by dipping his talented fingers into a variety of different pies. In between organizing Cincinnati’s MusicNOW Festival,
Reunion
Reunion is the tale of a summer two young boys spend in the spectre of Nazi Germany. Originally a novella written by Fred Uhlman, it has been adapted for stage
Innovation Dublin Festival
After a successful debut, Innovation Fest returns for a sophomore year. Innovation Fest is a collaboration between Creative Dublin Alliance and the Dublin City Council. The aim to is to
Jackass 3D
Comedy, generally speaking, is not put through the critical ringer in the same way that other genres are. For whatever reason, the comedic equivalent of The Hurt Locker (to take
Not In Love (feat. Robert Smith)
There’s something a little bit dislikeable about Crystal Castles ever since they became embroiled in an internet skirmish about plagiarism of chiptune music and abuse of Creative Commons privileges. I
Games
When Antony Hegarty managed to transform Oneohtrix Point Never’s arpeggiated drone dirge Returnal into a soulful piano dirge a few months ago, it was the first time we realized here
R.E.D. (Retired and Extremely Dangerous)
When mainstream genre-cinema attempts to affectionately parody itself, the results are rarely anything less than painful. Red is no exception to this. Setting itself up as a vaguely self-deconstructive action-comedy
Dirty Sanchez
So you might know Matt Berry from the IT Crowd, but he does music too. With the trademark baritone voice familiar from confrontationally weird boss Douglas Reynholm, he sings songs
Small Craft On A Milk Sea
The dome-headed one is back (and on Warp too) with his first album in five years, and approaching this record one wonders which kind of Brian Eno album this will
Belle and Sebastian Write About Love
The issue with the modern day Belle and Sebastian is that they won notebook-scribbling, tea-drinking, glasses-wearing hearts in the first place for making flawed pop – community hall versions of
Klavierwerke
James Blake is increasingly displaying a master’s stroke when it comes to the use of space and silence in his music. Still modelled around the cut and paste sample style
Come Around Sundown
Saboteurs of their own legacy of actually-quite-ingenuous rock built up by their exemplary first two releases (damn, we’ll even take Knocked Up from the third album), CAS is not so
Limit To Your Love
While the cover of last month’s Klavierwerke EP featured a blurred photo of the artist’s profile, this single sees London electronic maverick James Blake baring his soul, somewhat. Shedding the
You Can Count On Me b/w Alsatian Darn
You Can Count On Me is the second in a line of 7″ singles precipitating the release next year of Tomboy, the whetted-after follow up to 2007’s celebrated Person Pitch
Andrew Bird- Hot Math
The Deluxe version of Noble Beasts, released last year contained an adventurous instrumental disc, Useless Creatures which is due for its own release this month with Bella Union Records. Leaving
The Vaccines- Wreckin’ Bar (Ra Ra Ra)
Short, sweet and straight to the point. The hotly tipped Londoners, The Vaccines attempt to rekindle the spirit of the three chord wonder. The relentless assault from this four piece
Lunar Disko
Very much from the D.I.Y school of thought, Andy Doyle and Barry Donovan are the co-founders of Dublin’s Lunar Disko records. Spawned from an Italo/ Electro / Chicago night, they
The Silver Tassie
Tony Award-winner Garry Hynes directs a cast of 19 – Druid’s biggest ever company of actors – in this sweeping production of Sean O Casey’s most controversial play, that uses