Tyler, The Creator – Goblin
Ladies and gentlemen, the most anticipated rap album of our time. “Niggas had the fucking nerve to call me immature. The fuck you think I made Odd Future for? To
Popical Island, Vol. 2
The emergence of Irish indie collectives such as Popical Island is evidence that the DIY spirit is alive and well and also that there’s practically no other way to actually
Arctic Monkeys – Suck It And See
I saw Arctic Monkeys at the dying embers of their tour in late 2009. To say they seemed jaded would be an understatement: they were bloody knackered. Whatever the intervening
Only The Lonely Know The Glow Is Failing
Do the Last Sound count as veterans now? Any band that survived the Dublin underground with the same identity for this long surely does. This 7″/digital single is like much
Paul Simon – So Beautiful Or So What
Embracing a “world” sensibility as Simon has during his solo career is the kind of play that can fall flat on its face badly if done wrong. SBOSW doesn’t set
Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
Sometimes a band can just practically repeat its first album, like Room On Fire followed Is This It, and it still just works. Helplessness Blues is that kind of record.
Panda Bear – Tomboy
Like knowing the sex of the baby after the first ultrasound, Panda Bear’s combination of (oft-bootlegged) live sets of new material and drip-drab release of 7″ singles over the last
Chipmunk – Transition
For all the Guardianista pride in London grime/rap/R&B’s rise to mainstream dominance in the UK, and an increasing amount of attention from the already over-subscribed American market, the Genre Formerly
Katy B – On A Mission
There is something about Katy B that makes her incredibly likeable. She doesn’t gargle vowels, and she has the same girl-next-door ordinariness about her that Joanne and Susan from The
Adz Future: Sufjan Stevens Interview
In the pantheon of musicians making Big American Music, Sufjan Stevens might be counted as an analog to Jonathan Franzen in literature. A couple of formative early records (A Sun
Clean Up Time: Interview with Baths
Will Wiesenfeld has been making music in various guises since his teens, both with his band and his ambient music project Geotic, but it is his one-man chillwave identity
Interview: And So I Watch You From Afar
And So I Watch You From Afar’s self-titled debut set the Belfast instrumental four-piece apart from much of the pack in terms of the sheer emotion and ferocity therein. It
The Streets – Computers And Blues
He might have had one of the worst fall-offs in recent memory, going from rapping about returning DVDs to how annoyed he is by people taking pictures of him with
Bright Eyes – The Peoples Key
The past few years of unfulfilling side projects have allowed Conor Oberst to solve the riddle of maturing his Bright Eyes project without the increasing lethargy that’s crept into his
Toro Y Moi – Underneath The Pine
As chillwave runs aground, it is up to each individual practitioner to innovate his way out of sinking with the ship. Toro Y Moi moves into live instrumentation, with a
Cut Copy – Zonoscope
In the accompanying ‘Making Of…’ documentary, Cut Copy leaf through a hearty vinyl collection, poring over a bevvy of 80’s 12 inches and it’s instructive, because Zonoscope has the tendency
Cmd+X, Cmd+C: Cut Copy Interview
Cut Copy have been building a wave of good will over the last few years of touring the world and have no doubt brought a few Irish admirers back from
The Rubberbandits – I Wanna Fight Your Father
In times of economic depression and societal unease, what we all need is two musically talented guys from Limerick with plastic bags over their faces.