• Nickelback – Feed The Machine

    June 30, 2017 - By 

    This review is the most recent entry in Will Murphy’s 12000 word thesis on Nickelback. He speaks from a place of knowledge, understanding and a begrudged appreciation due to stockholm syndrome. Feed The Machine is Nickelback’s ninth album. Let that sink in. Nine albums. This band has released a full-length LP as many times as 50 Cent has been shot. Given the notoriety surrounding them, it’s hard to fathom how they’ve kept on trucking all these years. The group has become more meme than band at this point. Every joke has been mined and we are all comfortable with the…

  • Q+A: Jesca Hoop

    June 30, 2017 - By 

    Ahead of her slot in Mitchelstown Cave as part of this year’s Clonmel Junction Festival on Saturday, July 8, Californian singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop talks to Zara Hedderman about inspiration, collaboration and aesthetic as a form of fuel. Go here for more info about the show You’re set to perform in a cave for your appearance at Clonmel Junction Festival. Will this be the most unusual stage surrounding that you will have performed in? Are you looking forward to perform in a cave? Well, if this cave is as reverberant as others I have been in then yes, I am very much looking…

  • BadBadNotGood @ The Sugar Club, Dublin

    June 29, 2017 - By 

    Seven months ago, BadBadNotGood performed to a modest crowd during the early part of Metropolis Festival’s inaugural evening. Earlier this week, having recently played at Bonnaroo and Glastonbury, the Canadian quartet played two sold-out shows in The Sugar Club, taking time out of festival slots to put on a show where their music was the sole focus. BBNG are known for their innovative approach to composing intricately textured, experimental jazz infused hip hop instrumentals that speak to even the staunchest purist of either genre.  Their debut release on Bandcamp, I, caught the attention of Odd Future leader Tyler, The Creator…

  • TLC, Leftfield and More For Metropolis

    June 28, 2017 - By 

    Metropolis have announced their first wave of acts for the returning festival on October 28th and 29th of this year. The line up so far includes TLC, Leftfield, Death in Vegas, Mount Kimbie and many more to be announced. Weekend Tickets go on sale this Friday 30th June at 9am via Ticketmaster.ie & Usual Outlets. www.metropolisfestival.ie

  • Disillusionment and Self-Discovery with Shookrah

    June 28, 2017 - By 

    Having featured in the sixth issue of our magazine back in early 2015, Cork RnB maestros Shookrah have evolved into something quite special over the last couple of years. Following a memorable set at Body&Soul at the weekend, Senita Appiakorang and Emmet O’Riabhaigh open up about process, metamorphosis, new material & their peers. Hi guys. First thing’s first: for those not in the know, how did you Shookrah first come about? When and where were the seeds sown? Senita: We all loosely knew one another from college and mutual friends. There was a glory period we called “the holy trinity”…

  • Red Bull Music Academy 2018 x Bodytonic Dublin Launch

    June 28, 2017 - By 

    On Saturday, July 1, Red Bull Music Academy and Dublin’s Bodytonic will team up to present a day-long event at the Bernard Shadw brimming with guest lectures and a Q+A RBMA alumnus and Belfast DJ Timmy Stewart. Later in the evening, Timmy, French electro-funk wizard Gary Gritness, Fort Romeau and the Bodytonic DJs will keep the party going until late. Want in? Entry is via RSSP on the Bodytonic website right here. Revisit T-Bone’s Boiler Room set from 2015’s AVA Festival below.

  • The Horrors Announce New Album, Irish Dates

    June 28, 2017 - By 

    Three years on from the release of the exquisite Luminous, Essex’s finest indie/gaze post-punk revivalists The Horrors have announced its follow-up, V. Produced by Paul Epworth, the album will be released in September and followed by a string of UK and Irish dates, including Belfast’s Mandela Hall on October 16 and Dublin’s Tivoli on October 17. With the band exploring new sonic territory on the release, keyboardist Tom Cowan said, Tom Cowan continues: “It’s natural, if you do see yourself as an artist, to progress and not play it safe. Bowie pre-empted the modern condition of not being able to…

  • Mark Lanegan Set For Irish Dates

    June 28, 2017 - By 

    Having recently released his stellar tenth solo album, Gargoyle, it’s been announced that Mark Lanegan will return to Ireland for dates in December. The Seattle alternative rock legend and former Screaming Trees frontman will play Belfast’s Mandela Hall on December 5 and Dublin’s Academy on December 6 respectively. Support on both nights come from The Icarus Line’s Joe Cardamone. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 9am, priced £22.50 and €28.00. Definitely worth hitting up if you gave Slane a miss.