Posted in music on Jan 8th, 2010 8 Comments »
Those preppy East Coast college kids are up to speed with this technology thing and are providing an embedded player which allows you to listen to a streamed version of their new album Contrawhich is being released around now in your own blog or whatever.
So, as we have a blog here, I’m embedding it […]
Posted in music on Jan 7th, 2010 2 Comments »
And for anyone else reading.
Fortet doing a remix of Caribou’s Melody Day.
Posted in music on Nov 3rd, 2009 8 Comments »
Sinéad Gleeson, through twitter, said the following yesterday:
Grizzly Bear + St. Vincent = Gig of the year.
Great, my tastes have coincided with Sinéad’s enough times for me to be fairly sure I have indeed missed the gig of the year. Now, I’m not too gutted that I didn’t catch Grizzly Bear. Much as […]
Posted in music on Oct 31st, 2009 2 Comments »
I’ve been away from these parts a while - can’t quite remember where I’ve been - but the hangover is a monster one. For my comeback post I’ll continue in the same vein of triviality I was in before I disappeared.
My dearest and nearest often buys the quite decent French rock/culture mag Les Inrockuptibles […]
Posted in music on Oct 27th, 2009 4 Comments »
While listening to this track from the excellent Dirty Projectors’ 2009 album Bitte Orca today….
I was reminded of this ‘77 stunna…
And while listening to this recently released piece of Andy Weatherall produced electro-drizzle
Posted in music on Oct 15th, 2009 2 Comments »
I don’t know if Sean Baite will be able to see this down there in the back end of France, but Handj*b films, with the compressing skills of Colm Talbot, have a shockingly large number of vids (okay 9) of Nick Cave’s recent visit to Vicar Street to promote his novel The Death of Bunny […]
Posted in Lisbon Treaty, music on Oct 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
It was as I suspected, there was me planning to write a detailed review of the Pixies gig in the Olympia last Wednesday night, and to go on about how it was the best the gig evar, which it was, and I knew that someone would have either video or audio of it which would […]
Pixies Olympia First Muffled Version: Play Now | Play in Popup Pixies Olympia Second Muffled and Shouty Version: Play Now | Play in PopupPosted in music on Sep 30th, 2009 6 Comments »
Dave Lovering, the drummer with the Pixies, performing magic at the International Comedy Club in Dublin the other night.
Let’s hope the rest of the band can perform a little bit of magic to….oh never mind.
I got the video from Nialler9, who got it from Handjob films, and as always many thanks.
Posted in music on Sep 24th, 2009 No Comments »
In the great Powell and Pressburger film A Matter of Life and Death, Marius Goring descends to earth from monochrome heaven to sort out whether David Niven should be dead or alive, that is, on earth or in heaven. In what has been hailed as one of the first post-modern/meta-narrative moments in cinema Goring (as […]
Posted in music on Sep 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Mark Fisher of K-Punk, who also writes for The Wire magazine and a number of other publications has a new book coming out in November. Actually, he has two, the second is a book of essays by various authors writing about Michael Jackson, The Resistible Demise Of Michael Jackson, which he has edited.
“The essays […]
