• Deep Elm Records & How The Mainstream Ate Our Collective Souls Before Selling Them In A Bargain Bin In A Two For One Deal

    It’s hard to be an independent record label in 2014. Between the slow, fluctuating, apparent demise of the CD, the hyper-commercialisation of alternative cultures and the fact that the average modern music consumer has the attention span of a five year old after a can of Monster, it’s a struggle for even the most robust, stubborn indie label to stay indie and stay functional. Today, the decision of a young person deciding to focus their career on working with and financing small bands is seen as admirable – it’s a sweet idea, but they’ll eventually give up and get a…

  • The Beards announce Dublin and Belfast shows

    Hairy Australians The Beards will be bringing their beard-rock to these shores once again this December. The band, whose songs are exclusively about beards, will be performing at The Button Factory in Dublin and the Empire Music Hall  in Belfast on December 10 and 11 respectively.Tickets are on sale now. The band released their fourth album, The Beard Album, about beards this May and are returning after a visit to Dublin in March. Check out ‘Got Me A Beard’ below

  • Album stream: Geotic – Morning Shore

    Will Wiesenfeld, the ambient electronic producer more commonly known as Baths, has released a new full-length album under the alias Geotic, entitled Morning Shore. The producer has been treating us to impossibly pretty electronic music since 2010, and his second release, 2013’s Obsidian received widespread critical acclaim. With this more recent project, the relaxing loop-based songs are more natural and revolve around acoustic guitar, in the style of producers such as Bibio and Tycho. Morning Shore is the first in a line of planned releases entitled Eon Isle, each to be based around a single instrument, and after hearing this first…

  • Beyond Berghain: The Authentic Berlin Experience

    If you have recently thought of visiting, moving to, or simply losing a weekend in Berlin, let me first of all congratulate you. Your sense of judgement is sound. In the words of Metronomy – if you’ve got to go to Berlin… GO. Everyone knows Berlin is quite actually the Laney Boggs of the world. Even when it wasn’t “hot” (thanks Cold War), David Bowie was living here, for Christ’s sake. And, again, like She’s All That, no one was particularly surprised that the moment Berlin took off her glasses (bye bye Wall), she became a shit-hot babe. But, sadly…