• Porphyry – Ursa Minor/Coming Home EP

    July 24, 2017 - By 

    Experimental singer-songwriter Porphyry has just released his debut EP, Ursa Minor/Coming Home. Solely performed by Derry multi-instrumentalist Daryl Coyle, it’s an ambitious EP that’s difficult to pin down in genre, with lush arrangements and instrumental flourishes, and truly unpredictable songwriting. Independently released, it was recorded by Start Together’s Niall Doran & Smalltown America’s Caolan Austin, and mixed by Doran. The EP, although could be categorised as baroque pop, or psych-folk, or ambient, or shoegaze or even *gasp* prog rock, it manages the unenviable job of being boldly unpigeonholeable as art, and deeply personal, without approaching any level of bloated grandiosity. Check it out below – we’d…

  • Tiny Magnetic Pets – Deluxe / Debris

    July 24, 2017 - By 

    Collecting krautrock grooves, ’70s electronica and oddball pop, Dublin outfit Tiny Magnetic Pets – named after the Japanese collectable toy – release their new album Deluxe / Debris on August 25 through Happy Robots Records. This follows up on their 2009 debut, Return of The Tiny Magnetic Pets and two EPs. Sounded at times like a prime-era William Orbit electronic pop production, featuring the kosmische space race synth sounds of the likes of Harmonia and Neu! – incidentally, the album features two collaborations with Kraftwerk’s Wolfgang Flür. Flür isn’t the only synth-pop fan either, with the band having built support from members of Visage & OMD, as…

  • GoGo Penguin: Koyaanisqatsi – A New Score Performed Live

    July 24, 2017 - By 

    35 year on from its initial release, GoGo Penguin will perform a new score to Godfrey’s seminal 1982 experimental film Koyaanisqatsi at Dublin’s Sugar Club on October 19. With the original production featuring a perfectly transformative, career-defining score from the masterful Philip Glass, this is an unmissable opportunity to witness the Manchester quartet put a new slant put on a cinematic masterpiece that brilliantly blurs the lines between documentary and hypnotic time-lapse photography. According to promoters, originally commissioned by HOME in Manchester as part of the Music and Film Project, promoters said od the performance: “GoGo Penguin’s richly emotional music offers…

  • Oh Yeah Summer Zine 2017

    July 24, 2017 - By 

    When we launched our free physical magazine back in October of 2014 we did so with the boundless conviction that there’s still very much a market and audience for print music magazines. That uniquely fuzzy feeling one gets picking up a lovingly-compiled magazine upon entering a coffee shop or leaving a record store, eager to delve in and get discovering: that’s exactly – and purely – what drove us to produce our own zine, month in, month out, and what will compel to do so again when we re-launch later this year. Working alongside Belfast freelance photographer Carrie Davenport –…

  • LCD Soundsystem To Play Three Headline Shows at the Olympia

    July 24, 2017 - By 

    Here’s some news to ease those Monday morning blues: LCD Soundsystem will headline three very special shows at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre across September 27-29. Marking the band’s first headline shows since reforming in 2015, they will be the James Murphy-fronted band’s only Irish appearances this year. Tickets – which go on sale this Friday at 9am – are priced €54.50. LCD Soundsystem will release their fourth studio album, American Dream, on September 1.

  • Playlist: 20 Acts To Catch at Electric Picnic 2017

    July 24, 2017 - By 

    For all its kaleidoscopic, genre-spanning variety, there’s no denying choosing which acts to catch (and those artists to regrettably miss) at Electric Picnic can be a bit of a headache. Sure, Clashfinder is a big help (seriously, we’d be lost without it) but let us help you out if you’re EP-bound this weekend: from Interpol, Chaka Khan and Parquet Courts to Run The Jewels (above), Soulwax and Car Seat Headrest, here’s 20 acts to catch at this year’s Electric Picnic, returning to Stradbally Estate across September 1-3

  • Guys, There’s a Hybrid Theory Singalong Fundraiser For Pieta House Happening in Dublin

    July 23, 2017 - By 

    In troubling times, it’s to great, and kind minds such as Glenn Fitzpatrick to whom we should turn. Following the tragic passing of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington on Thursday, Fitzpatrick (with help from Dublin musician and former Overhead The Albratross member Joe Panama) will host a Hybrid Theory singalong to raise money for suicide and self-harm charity Pieta House at Dublin’s Fibber Magees on Thursday, August 3. Over at the fundraiser’s Facebook event page, the organisers said: “Linkin Park are a band that meant so much to so many of us during our formative years. Hybrid Theory in particular had…

  • It Comes At Night

    July 21, 2017 - By 

    It is a wonderful thing when Hollywood actually develops some backbone and throws their weight behind filmmakers like writer/director Trey Edward Shults (Krisha). His latest genre bending horror, It Comes At Night, is incredibly brave filmmaking, as even the title is deceptively chosen – some might call it false advertising. This is an intelligent and tautly crafted horror, with its base set in the dystopian nightmare genre, but there will undoubtedly be detractors who may feel shortchanged by the elusiveness in showing what the ‘It’ fully entails. Set at a time of mass extinction for the human race, Joel Edgerton (The Gift)…

  • Boris – Dear

    July 21, 2017 - By 

    There is a delightful uncertainty associated with a new Boris album. The Japanese three piece have spent twenty-five years keep metal fans on their toes with aplomb. Every new release brings with it a myriad of questions of style, tone and content that makes the pre-release period surprisingly fun. This extends to the first few runs through the record. Each iteration uncovers unexpected turns, subtle slivers of sound folded deeply into the mix and new tapestries of noise that you somehow missed. The only real guarantee that the group offers is that things are going to get exceeding heavy at…