• oOoOO – Without Your Love

    July 15, 2013 - By 

    When Chris Dexter first emerged into the mainstream consciousness back in 2010, he was surrounded by much talk in the music press about the so-called ‘Witch House’ genre and was joined by a slew of seemingly like-minded contemporaries, most notably the likes of Salem and Purity Ring. While it was a tag that Dexter attempted to eschew, the similarities were unavoidable — their releases all utilisisng a now-familiar mix of hip-hop, pop and shoegaze to form a hazy blend that had hacks squirreling away at their keyboards. Some three years later and we are now belatedly presented with the first…

  • Watch: Mojo Fury – The Difference Between

    July 12, 2013 - By 

    With their highly-anticipated second album on the horizon, Belfast/Lisburn three-piece Mojo Fury have unveiled the Tommy Keery-directed video to their new single, ‘The Difference Between’. The Michael Mormecha-fronted band have also announced that they have started a pledge campaign to assist the release of the aforementioned album, also named The Difference Between. Go here to learn move. Watch the video to ‘The Difference Between’ below.

  • Everything Sucks #001: Shit Videos

    July 12, 2013 - By 

    So, now that we’re a few weeks removed from the colossal pant-wetting that happened online in the wake of Birmingham teenager Danish Ghaffar (or D4NNY, if that’s your thing) uploading his seminal masterwork ‘Goodbye’ to YouTube and its garnering of over a million views, let’s take a minute to consider the phenomenon of shit music videos before the next one arrives, shall we?   I’m as guilty as the next asshole of laughing at people who perhaps didn’t think their career choices through. I’m currently sitting on Drop-d.ie, a site I run, until we reboot it at some point in…

  • Dan Hegarty: Sweet 95

    July 12, 2013 - By 

    It was a time when the Blur Vs Oasis nonsense was reaching its peak; the Battle of Britpop as it was called. Bret ‘Hitman’ Hart was WWF (now WWE) Champion, and it would be just a number of years before Irish Rugby fans would become familiar with a man by the name of Brian O’Driscoll. Kerbdog – ‘Sally’   1995 was a year when the grit of what was known as grunge had been replaced by the aforementioned Britpop bands of varying merit. While on these shores bands like Rollerskate Skinny, Whipping Boy, Kerbdog, and Watercress were doing their respective…

  • Chic announce Irish dates

    July 12, 2013 - By 

    Having wowed at Forbidden Fruit and set for Derry’s Ebrington Square on July 28, Chic featuring Nile Rodgers have announce a string of Irish dates in October. Starting in Belfast’s historic Ulster Hall on Wednesday, October 23 the five-date leg will culminate in a second night in Dublin’s Vicar Street on October 30. View the full dates below. October 23 – Ulster Hall, Belfast October 25 – Milk Market, Limerick October 27 – Radisson Hotel, Galway October 29/30 – Vicar Street, Dublin Tickets for the show go on sale next Friday, July 19. Good times!

  • Glasgowbury festival announces end

    July 12, 2013 - By 

    The organisers of arguably Northern Ireland’s finest and most respected homegrown musical festival, Glasgowbury, have announced that this year’s festival – the thirteenth in its history – will be its last. Taking on Friday July 19 and Saturday 20 at Eagle’s Rock Valley, Draperstown, this year’s showcase – headlined by The Japanese Popstars, And So I Watch You From Afar and The Answer – will mark the transitional point where the Glasgowbury team move onto the next stage of its development. According to a press release posted on the official Glasgowbury website: “Progressing to the next stage of its forward-thinking…

  • Watch: Tera Melos – ‘Weird Circles’

    July 11, 2013 - By 

    Sacramento math rock trio Tera Melos have unveiled the Behn Fannin-directed video for their song, ‘Weird Circles’. The opening track from the band’s superb fourth album X’ed Out – released via Sargent House in April – the song is a typically bananas slice of experimental pop wonderment, something the video manages to reflect – via luminous cereal milk, robotic squirrels and dancing hotdogs – extremely well. Watch the video below. Alternatively/also stream X’ed Out via Bandcamp here.

  • Floor Staff – The Good Luck EP

    July 12, 2013 - By 

    It’s really difficult to write good pop music; unlike most other genres, great pop requires a level of clarity of vision and perfection that can be cripplingly hard. So it’s always a real treat when exciting pop music lands straight on your lap. With their debut release, The Good Luck EP, Dublin duo Floor Staff have given the world a proper Summer treat. Working with a kitchen sink mentality, the EP mixes emotionally volatile vocals, tight and powerful rhythms and a cracking brass section with effortless effect. The production and mixing is one of the most laudable aspects of the…

  • Hotline Miami (Dennaton Games, PS3/PS Vita)

    July 11, 2013 - By 

    Most videogames, whether or not they choose to profess it, are rooted in violence. And we’re not just talking about bête noires such as Manhunt, Call Of Duty or Carmageddon. Something as innocuous as Super Mario Bros. involves jumping on enemies’ heads to make them disappear, and at the end of each final stage the big boss plummets into a fiery pit. Space Invaders is all about the shooting. Street Fighter requires beating your opponent into submission. Even Tetris involves making harmless blocks disappear. Call it “deleting” or “subtracting” if these euphemisms make the killing and destroying more palatable. There is no doubt that to progress in any videogame you must be…

  • Interview: Speed of Snakes

    July 11, 2013 - By 

    You may know them as Rupert Morris (lead screamer, lyricist and guitarist in science-dance-metal troupe BATS) and Vinny McCreith (red-hooded bassist in Adebisi Shank and electronic solo artist as The Vinny Club) but together they are Speed Of Snakes. The Dublin-based duo recently premiered the first track from the sci-fi themed electro-rock project, as well as setting out the suitably silly backstory for the whole project: On the first day, 88 trillion years ago, the great snake Metatraxium created the Universe, the Earth and all the life upon it. Each species birthed from a succession of fantastic and horrifying eggs.…