• Track Record: Brian Foley (The Blades)

    February 2, 2015 - By 

    In the latest installment of Track Record, The Blades‘ Brian Foley gives us an insight into his record collection, featuring everyone from Hank Williams to The Clash. Photos by Shaun Neary. Hank Williams – The Very Best Of I love traditional country music as sung by Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Don Gibson and best of all, Hank Williams. Some people find his voice a bit jarring but I find it quite appealing and it adds to some of his more bleaker songs. The little yodel he sometimes uses blends in with the pedal steel guitar and the country fiddle. The lyrics are always…

  • Track Record: Aisling O’Riordan

    January 21, 2015 - By 

    In the latest installment of Track Record, we delve into the record collection of Aisling O Riordan, Music Programmer for Quarter Block Party which runs from February 6-8. She plays with Morning Veils and she is also one of the co-founders of the Southern Hospitality Board which promotes music and craic in Cork city. Photos by Brid O’Donovan. THEESatisfaction – awE naturalE I found out about THEESatisfaction when I was working in The Pavilion, Cork. Joe and Stevie sent me on a song called ‘Enchantruss’ as a Soundcloud link. Joe was like, “Oh I think we’re gonna try and get these…

  • Track Record: Contour

    January 14, 2015 - By 

    All throughout 2014 we dotingly pried into the prized record collections of some of our favourite Irish artists via Track Record. Taste abounded from every photo and giddy admission, and all was well in the world. Before delving into all of those (which we’re certain you’ll do so with fervent abandon in due course) dig the latest with Dublin electronic duo Conan Wynne and Anna Doran AKA Contour. Photos by Tara Thomas. Anna Doran Prodigy – Music for the Jilted Generation Nostalgia buzz. I bought this for Conan for his birthday! Underground Resistance – The Final Frontier I only have a…

  • Track Record: Bantum

    December 15, 2014 - By 

    Dublin-based Corkman Ruairi Lynch AKA Bantum has a fine taste in music. “But where’s your proof?!” we hear you cry. And cry you shall. Our response is the following piece. Read and delve in unison. Photos by Tara Thomas. Metallica – Master Of Puppets I keep going back to this album. I don’t listen to as much metal as I used to but this will always stick with me. As relentlessly fast and heavy as this album was, it made space for melody here and there, and some of the arrangements were just insane. Playing along to that album really helped…

  • Track Record: Oh Boland

    December 19, 2014 - By 

    We head back to Galway for Track Record, this time to hang out with Oh Boland, where Niall Murphy (vocals) mostly discusses his favourite albums and Eanna (MacDonnacha, bass/vocals) sneaks in with a few words about Weezer’s Blue Album. Photos by Sean McCormack. The Sonics – Here Are The Sonics One of the first garage bands they say. It’s hard to disagree, and what a band. That super primitive sound, mad rackety rock n’ roll played by pimples on a one day studio bender. That guitar sound is just to die for! Total belligerence. The beat is total energy and Gerry Roslie…

  • Track Record: Neal Keating & Kayleigh Forsythe

    December 12, 2014 - By 

    In this special edition of Track Record, we head over to the apartment of Neal Keating, who is the frontman with hardcore band Frustration, and Kayleigh Forsythe, a very talented jewellery designer to have a look through some of their favourite records. Special guest appearances from their two Persian cats Wilbur and Frankie, who do everything in their power to steal the limelight from the couple! Photos by Isabel Thomas. Have Heart – The Things We Carry There’s very few records that you can legitimately say changed your life. This record did that for me. When I first heard it, I was working a really bad…

  • Track Record: Meltybrains?

    December 10, 2014 - By 

    In the latest installment of Track Record, the utterly inimitable Meltybrains? take us on a boundlessly intriguing journey into their minds/record collections. Photos by Tara Thomas. Micheál Snarky Puppy – Tell Your Friends This was the first Snarky Puppy album I was introduced to. A great friend of mine, the infamous ‘Jimmy from Boston’, showed them to me. ‘Skate U’ was the first track I ever heard, and I instantly became enthralled. I thought it was the best music I had ever heard, and I still do. I took it as a personal mission to show everyone I met Snarky Puppy. I genuinely think they are…

  • Track Record: Daniel Paxton (Buffalo Sunn)

    December 3, 2014 - By 

    Daniel Paxton has been a staple in the Irish music scene for over ten years now having played in Mainline, The Brothers Movement, Sweet Jane and his current band Buffalo Sunn, so it’s no surprise he’s amassed quite an impressive record collection ranging from the pioneering country of Neil Young, alt-folk favourites Fleet Foxes and harmonic generators The Byrds. We spend the evening with him in his house in Dublin and chat about some of his most prized possessions. Photos by Shaun Neary. The Flying Burrito Brothers – The Gilded Palace of Sin How cool do these guys look on the cover…

  • Track Record: Bobby Aherne

    November 28, 2014 - By 

    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)…

  • Track Record: Jen Connell (Cave Ghosts)

    November 26, 2014 - By 

    We hang out with Jen Connell from Cave Ghosts in her bedroom and discuss some of the most important records in her collection and how they’ve influenced her from Leonard Cohen to Beach House, and everything in between. Photos by Aaron Corr. Blue – Joni Mitchell Joni Mitchell has the purest voice I’ve ever heard and this is such a perfect record, from start to finish. I learned a lot about songwriting and singing from Joni, she’s a true storyteller. I think my favourite tracks from this are ‘Case of You’ and ‘Blue’. She paints such a detailed picture with her…