• Watch: No Age – An Impression

    L.A. experimental punk two-piece No Age have unveiled a video for new track, ‘An Impression’. Taken from the band’s fourth studio album entitled An Object – released today in the UK and tomorrow in the US via Sub Pop – the video for the track the brief, decidedly abstract clip was directed by the duo, Randy Randall (guitar) and Dean Spunt (drums/vocals). Watch the video below.  

  • Gateways To Paradise – How REM Gave Me A Music Collection

    I was 13, living in Antrim, and it felt like the entire world was very, very far away. But then I would pick up my Walkman, slot in a copy of Fables of the Reconstruction or Out of Time, and find myself in an exotic world, a place of mystery and magic, a place where the kudzu vine spread over everything, and nights were spent by the railway line, watching the trains. To that 13 year old boy, REM were more than a lifeline; they were a life. As the years went by, my love of REM would fluctuate, their 21st century missteps leading…

  • Belsonic: Basement Jaxx, Leftfield, Le Carousel

    Our photographer Alan Maguire captures Basement Jaxx headlining Day One of this year’s Belsonic at Custom House Square, Belfast. Supporting the British electronic duo on the night was London two-piece Leftfield and Phil Kieran’s band project Le Carousel. View Alan’s photos from the night below! at Custom House Square, Belfast. Supporting the British electronic duo on the night were London electronic two-piece Leftfield and Phil Kieran’s band project Le Carousel. View his photos from the show on Friday, August, 16 below.

  • Mogwai – Les Revenants EP

    Zombies. Fucking zombies. There are few things that have assimilated as many cultural touchstones as the zombie phenomenon. They’ve taken movies, classic novels, video games, music and now they’ve taken beloved Scottish instrumentalists Mogwai with the group’s Les Revenants EP (As an aside, if anyone wishes to create a Gremlins zombie mash-up, I won’t complain). The EP, the group’s first release since 2009’s fantastic Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, probably won’t win any new fans for the group but is a neat little treat for longtime fans. For a bit of context,  Les Revenants is a collection of…

  • Dan Hegarty: Obsessive Compulsions

    He sports one of the most splendid moustaches that you’re likely to see, and he’s proven that he can pen a tune or two over the years. Jerry Fish has brought us one of the catchiest tunes of 2013 in ‘Barefoot & Free’. He’s enlisted the services of R.S.A.G on drums, and put together a pretty funky video to go with it! If you’re going to the Electric Picnic, make sure to pay a visit to his ‘The Jerry Fish Electric Sideshow’ stage at Electric Picnic’s Trailer Park.   We all have the potential to become slightly obsessive about things;…