Deerhunter – Monomania – Album Review
Bradford Cox and his troupe follow up 2010's Halcyon Digest with an impressively scuzzy and melodic record.
What Deerhunter do as good as anyone is bring harrowing beauty out of noise and vocals, with Monoma...
Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold – Album review
The latest guitar band to burst out of New York is Parquet Courts. Garage riffs and shout-y vocals, a couple members with bad facial hair and unanimous retro slim fit t-shirts are the staples for 90 per cent of...
The music industry isn’t a sinking ship. It’s a submarine.
In the week following the now worldwide bandwagon hop of Record Store Day, news stories begin to highlight the change in the music industry. Today the Guardian reported that ‘Daft Punk break Spotify record: Get...
Interview with Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Jacob Portrait
Unknown Mortal Orchestra hit Dublin for the first time on May 2nd I nabbed Jacob Portait for a quick Q+A about bands success, ‘chicks’ and…. Ireland!
Ruban Nielsen began recording demos for fun in ...
Interview with Tim from The Hot Sprockets
I caught up with Tim from The Hot Sprockets to talk about their upcoming single launch (Saturday, April 20th @ Whelan’s), the recording of the not so ‘difficult’ second album, financial struggles and the buzz o...
Kurt Vile – Walkin On A Pretty Daze – Album Review
Kurt Vile’s gentle psychedelic warbling returns in earnest.
In 2011 with the release of ‘Smoke Ring For My Halo’ the pop-iest LP Vile has produced, saw him garner a broader fan base but it didn’t sit easy wi...