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News: FORAGER release kaleidoscopic pop offering ‘Fuji or a Trek’ from forthcoming debut album
There’s a lot going on here and it’s all fantastic. Say hello to New York trio FORAGER, who make knotty, complicated pop songs which pull influences in from jazz, Indian classical and an Afro-Cuban musical melting pot that’s a whole thing on its own. If you need more than one listen to ‘Fuji or a …
Live Gallery: Modest Mouse play Daydream Festival in Sydney 29.04.2023
Modest Mouse celebrate return to Australia at Daydream Festival.
Gallery and set-list: Yard Act / Baba Ali – Vicar Street, Dublin 26.04.2023
Yard Act playing their biggest ever Irish venue, last year the guys sold out Dublin venue Whelans at a capacity of 450, this time around they jumped to a venue capacity of 1,050. That’s in just slightly over a year as the Whelans date was March 2022.Opening the night and a new favourite of mine …
Premiere: Jeremy Tuplin invites you to ‘Orville’s Discotheque’ with punchy new single ‘Why’d You Go and Look At Me Like That’
Having heard the forthcoming new record from Somerset’s Jeremy Tuplin, we promise it’s as good as place as any to start with his work. The man’s got a serious way with a hook, and it’s particularly evident on his new single. ‘Why’d You Go and Look At Me Like That’ is the latest offering to …
Gallery & Set-lists: The Slow Readers Club / Amy Montgomery – The Academy, Dublin 15.04.2023
The Slow Readers Club playing their Dublin date of the Knowledge Freedom Power tour, with Belfast’s Amy Montgomery opening the night Amy Montgomery photos and set-list: Soul MedicineChange ChangeAway For FreeIntangibleConstitutionTomorrow Never Knows (Beatles cover)Meet You In The Sun The Slow Readers Club photo and set-list: ModerniseFool For Your Philosophy All I HearThe Greatest EscapeThe WaitHow …
Premiere: Charlie & Margot goes for a ‘Joyride’ on debut album, out tomorrow
Matteo DeBenedetti looks like he’s just realised his album’s out tomorrow, but there’s no need for him to be nervous because we’ve heard it and it’s very good indeed. So good, in fact, that we’re premiering it up front! The New Jersey-based Charlie & Margot is just him – if you didn’t know, the project’s …
Album Review: ‘Yalla Miku’ – Yalla Miku : Gnawa rhythms, East African roots and post punk dynamism connect on this electric debut.
Every city has a true face, a side which, as Lydon said ‘the tourists never see” and revealing that real identity is what Yalla Miku are all about. Formed by the founder of Swiss label Bongo Joe, musician Cyril Yeterian and his band mate from the aptly named Cyril Cyril, percussionist Cyril Bondi, Yalla Miku’s …
Gallery & Set-lists: EELS / The Inspector Cluzo – 3Olympia, Dublin 31.03.2023
American rock band EELS brought their Lockdown Hurricane 2023 tour to Dublin’s 3Olympia with a massive 27 song set-list, bring up the support slot were French rock blues guitar/ drums due Inspector Cluzo. Inspector Cluzo photos & set-list: ACT LOCAL THINK GLOBALRunning A Family Farm Is More Rock N’ Roll Than Playing Rock N’ Roll …
Gallery: Onion Boys / Scustin – The Workman’s Cellar, Dublin 29.03.2023
The beautiful chaos that are Dublin’s Onion Boys playing The Workman’s Club cellar venue with support from the equally beautiful and mayhem causing Scustin.The room from well before the show started was full of such energy, it was electric and the crowd went bonkers to the likes of Onion Boys songs ”Rock Band” / ”Daddy’s …
Premiere: FRANKIIE get ‘Visions’ of déjà vu on otherworldly new single
It’s always nice to hear from FRANKIIE. They’re intent on making up for lost time after going quiet for obvious reasons following 2019 debut album Forget Your Head – this is the Vancouver band’s second single in six weeks following the reveal of ‘Garden’ last month. You can, and should, catch up with it below …