• AAA: September Girls @ Bello Bar, Dublin

    In this installment of AAA (Access All Areas) we spent Friday evening with September Girls for the launch of their new EP Veneer at the Bello Bar in Dublin, a particular favourite venue of the band. Support on the night came from Squarehead and Sissy. Check out the gallery before for more great photos by Joe Laverty.

  • Little Hours w/ Bairbre Anne @ The Sugar Club, Dublin

    Serving up a sumptous set of folk-pop sound, the up-and-coming Little Hours delighted Dublin’s Sugar Club with their first headlining gig and eponymous EP launch on Thursday evening. The Donegal duo dazzled the house with a fresh array of work that’s garnered them a worthy following since the release of their first single ‘It’s Still Love’ in June, including a respectable line-up of support acts to play their momentous evening as well. The show was a night of new artists who toil, and an impressive one, at that. Kicking off the evening’s line-up was Dublin’s own Bairbre Anne, promoting new…

  • Track Record: Bobby Aherne

    Bobby Aherne is one very busy lad who can be found bouncing between various bands such as No Monster Club, Ginnels and Women’s Christmas to penning a hilarious book about Dublin legends. We caught up with him and his Kalamazoo synth-pop house guest,  M.Sord for a fun flip through his record collection. Photos by Isabel Thomas. Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam I got more and more into Animal Collective as I grudgingly made my way through university – with a particular fondness for the one in which the only lyric is the drawn-out line “You don’t have to go to college”. During the (very welcome)…

  • AAA: East India Youth @ Mercury Lounge, NYC

    We head Stateside for this installment of AAA (Access All Areas) with William Doyle aka East India Youth as he kicked off his brief U.S tour in New York’s mercury lounge, before joining Welsh veteran of quirk, Gruff Rhys, over on the west coast for a string of support dates. Doyle, with his small crew, had just landed in from London as our photographer Joe Laverty caught up with them to capture proceedings. After taking in some of East Houston street’s immediate attractions such as Katz Diner (the diner where Harry met Sally!) the serious business of winning over (new) New York fans begins…

  • Premiere: Gross Net – Gross Net EP

    Recently-arrived post-punk/neue Deutsche welle-influenced duo Gross Net – comprised of Girls Names‘ Philip Quinn and Autumns‘ Christian Donaghey, completed by programmed drums – have announced a brooding, excellent new three-track self-titled EP in the form of a cassette, recorded by the band themselves over the course of a day. The EP is out on Sligo label Art For Blind, who have accommodated releases from The Altered Hours, Hands Up Who Wants To Die, Perfect Pussy and more. The limited edition coral red cassette is available to pre-order for just £3.50, with a free download code – or simply only £2 digitally – from the Gross Net Bandcamp. You can…

  • Watch: Elastic Sleep – Slip

    Cork dream-pop quintet Elastic Sleep have just unveiled the video for new single, ‘Slip’, following their debut EP, Leave You, which came out in April; and with fellow shoegazers The Altered Hours also hailing from the county, it seems to be fast-becoming a minor hotbed for all things psychedelic. ‘Slip’ – released through Big Tea Records as the second of their Winter Trio of singles – is available now from iTunes and Bandcamp for just £1. Watch the video below: