Artist: The Hitchcock Blondes" Computers That Breed and The Ultra MontanesAuthor: David Phillips
DROP"D Dublin Showcase
After an afternoon of dirty skies and incessant rain" Wednesday was coming to an end as I waited on the Guinness at the bar of Radio City. The people were still trickling into the venue as I sat down" crossed my [...]

Artist: Fionn Regan"""InterviewAuthor: Jason Golden
Just one listen to Fionn Regans debut album The End of History and its clear you have just experienced something special. An album of magical beauty" gorgeous vocals and stunning guitar playing" this album is one of the most exciting debuts I have heard in a long long time. The [...]

Artist: Duke SpecialAuthor: Scott Edgar
DUKE SPECIAL
SONGS FROM THE DEEP FOREST
V2 RECORDS
Already one of the most talked about albums of the year" Duke Special's 'Songs From The Deep Forest' has finally been released to the public on CD and download. The selection of songs will not be surprising to the thousands of fans old [...]

Artist: Beveren"s toy"""InterviewAuthor: Maaike Mijland
Beveren"s toy reveal their explosive recipe
How to introduce a band like Beveren"s Toy without doing them injustice" Let"s take the easy way out and just copy/paste their own brilliant description" found on their myspace site:
" "The Toy"" as the band is sometimes known" is a five"piece anarcho"rock post"funk demipunk quasi"vegetarian [...]

Artist: The Blizzards"""InterviewAuthor: Nicola Marie O Riordan
Who"s the ride"" Well Cork girls certainly have no shame/class. Ah they do". sometimes" just not when they catch their first glimpse of The Blizzards" lead singer Niall "Bressie" Breslin" It"s not everyday a 6"+ ex pro rugby player comes to town fronting a band with 4 more [...]

Artist: Blast gig at Radio CityAuthor: Susan Keally
In 1998 a new monthly event was going to change every rock loving teen"s gig calendar. Blast was somewhere you could finally start spending your Saturday "first of every month back then" afternoons without getting in a lick of trouble. It was an event that was organised [...]

Artist: Iain ArcherAuthor: Scott Edgar
IAIN ARCHER
MAGNETIC NORTH
PIAS RECORDINGS
I have no reservations in calling Iain Archer one of the most under"rated
songwriters of our time. His work with Snow Patrol and The Reindeer Section has
been highly commended over the last number of years with an Ivor Novello award
being added to the ever growing list of [...]

Artist: GuillemotsAuthor: Scott Edgar
THE GUILLEMOTS
MANDELA HALL" QUB" BELFAST
SATURDAY 14TH OCTOBER
The Guillemots are named after a relatively unknown type of seabird and rightly
so" for they soar effortlessly on some elevated plain through a mystical scenery
we could only ever imagine" occasionally swooping down into the mainstream to
pick apart the best of today"s throwaway trash before taking [...]

Artist: SwitchesAuthor: Jason Golden
THE SWITCHES
"Lay Down The Law" is the debut single from UK indie starlets Switches. Get ready for this one because pretty soon it will be dominating the airwaves and bombarding our ears with a stomping slice of funked up indie gold. Not since Franz Ferdinand"s Take Me Out have we [...]

Artist: ASH talk to Drop"dAuthor: Nicola Marie O Riordan
Ash talk to Drop"d.
I don"t really think these guys need much introduction"especially if you were a teenager in the 90"s. They inspired many of us to take up guitar. Their debut album Trailer was exactly what it says on the tin" a taste of what to [...]