Artist: """"""""""""""""""Author: Jason Golden
18th Galway Film Fleadh offers rich pickings for film lovers
The programme for the 18th Galway Film Fleadh is being announced in Galway tonight and promises to cover a lot of ground with a heady mix of controversial documentaries" high profile premieres and heavy hitting stars attending throughout the week of July [...]

Artist: The MaccabeesAuthor: Paul Mc Connell
Remember the days when you found a CD "or tape" of a band you barely knew" threw it on the stereo and it just sounds different" Maybe not" after all it has been awhile since the rapture of Nirvana" the sheer balls of " pre disappearance"up"their"own"arses " Oasis or the [...]

Artist: Viva VoceAuthor: Dave Scanlon
God I"m glad I got given that interview. Viva Voce are great. Just bloody great. Sod clinical objectivity " they"re great. Any band where the drummer plays kazoo" synthesizer" drums "naturally" all at the same time" and the song"s still catchy as hell" is "say it with me"""yes" great. "The song [...]

Artist: JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN " REAL LIFEAuthor: Aoife
JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN "
REAL LIFE
In life" we are often judged on the company we keep. So imagine being a musician who once was in a relationship with Jeff Buckley" who writes songs with Buckley"s bandmate Michael Tighe" who is a member of Rufus Wainwright and [...]

Artist: Darkroom Notes" Mirakil Whip" Betamax Format and 66eAuthor: Aoife
ROISIN DUBH" Friday 23rd June
Featuring: Darkroom Notes" Mirakil Whip" Betamax Format and 66e

Galway"s music scene is blossoming at the moment" and one radio show that"s at the forefront of celebrating Galwegian music" as well as underground music from all over Ireland and beyond" is "An [...]

Artist: Sound TeamAuthor: Jason Golden
Over the past few months almost every American music blog has featured an article touting Sound Team as the new messiahs" of music. So" as you do" I avoided them. I just hate it when a band is over"hyped but Sound Team kept being compared to Interpol" who I love" [...]

Artist: CPU gig " May "06Author: Dave Scanlon
CPU gig " May "06
Butterfly ExplosionThe SDM and The Ruse

Okay" I"m going to go out on a limb here and assume that if you"re on this site" then you like music" right" Okay" good. And I"d also warrant that you"re probably Irish" yeah" Or have some sort [...]

Artist: The Beekeeper Summit: Sea " SadnessAuthor: Scott Edgar
The Beekeeper Summit: Sea " Sadness

Jack" Chris" Gary and Rick are The Beekeeper Summit who have unfortunately been labelled as an acoustic indie band. Based on their latest release that sort of labelling doesn't seem to do justice either the band or the songs.

The CD has [...]

Artist: World Music FestivalsAuthor: Gary

So it"s that time of year again boys and girls" Time to dig out the tents" stock up on the bogroll and hit a festival near your town. We all know about the Oxegen"s" the Glastonburys and the Readings" but for those you who maybe have some dough and are looking [...]

Artist: Duke Special at the Belfast EmpireAuthor: Scott Edgar
Duke Special" The Amazing Pilots" Shookman" DJ's Para " Baila
The Empire Music Hall" Belfast 27th " 28th May 2006

The two clean"cut and dapper dressed young men on stage have the appearance of someone you could safely take home to meet your mother. They look well and make [...]