Artist: The Gift " InterviewAuthor: Mark McCarthy
Right now seems to be the time of year that bands get signed and with Ireland brimming with quality talent it is no surprise that a few bands have been snapped up double quick. Cork band Lotus Lullaby are one such band and have recently sign to Irish label [...]

Artist: Exit Pursued By A Bear" The CitizenAuthor: Mark McCarthy
Exit Pursued By A Bear" The Citizen" The Blizzards
Yes folks it"s the time of year again when various competitions kick off and make for an exciting music calendar with IMRO Showcases" National Student Music Awards and Murphy"s Live providing highlights for music fans. Exit: Pursued By [...]

Artist: The Aliens
Author: Brendan Morgan
The Aliens ” Astronomy for Dogs 2007 EMI
Arriving at a time when all that was left of 90s Britpop had been snorted up the Gallagher”s noses” it was never going to be an easy path for acclaimed Scottish oddballs The Beta Band. Losing founding member Gordon Anderson almost [...]

Artist: DezAuthor: Dez Foley
The Good German
Steven Soderbergh"s latest film puts paid to the old clich"" "they don"t make them like that anymore"" because they just have. The Good German is set in post WWII Berlin" against the backdrop of the "Big Three" conference in Potsdam. George Clooney underplays perfectly as Jake Geismar" a war correspondent [...]

Artist: Analogue Mindfield Album reviewAuthor: Nicola Marie O Riordan
Analogue Mindfield Album review
A Fine Adjustment of Time
Kicking off with a mellow reggae beat along with some ambient jazz and intricately weaved harmonica "Reckless Behaviour" is the first track on Analogue Mindfield"s second album "A Fine Adjustment of Time." According to Analogue Mindfield musical genius Gizzy [...]

Artist: Hell is for HeroesAuthor: Scott Edgar
Hell Is For Heroes" Fighting With Wire" Mojo Fury" Dopamine
The Limelight" Belfast
22 March 2007
Back in 2004 we were in the midst of a music revolution. Britpop was celebrating its tenth anniversary and whiney northerners had been usurped by art school drop"outs with fashion sense" teenage angst and loud [...]

Artist: MyspaceAuthor: Susan Kealy
Myspace or yours"
Oh admit it" more then half of you have a Myspace webpage" either active or left in the dust. You either used it to chat with those few friends who for their own reasons wanted a myspace instead of a Bebo account. Though Myspace is much older then the [...]

Artist: BeangrowersAuthor: Anna Murray
Interview with Alison Galea of Beangrowers
Watching Maltese band Beangrowers on stage" their strutting confidence and obvious relish in the show makes it easy to believe that they already have three internationally well"received albums under their belt. You can"t help but wonder then" why so few over this side of Celtic Sea are [...]

Artist: SplitscreenAuthor: Scott Edgar

Are Splitscreen happy enough"
To be the next Snow Patrol"
Derry boys Splitscreen have been recording and gigging for almost two years now but until not too long ago they were relatively unknown outside of their home county. Masters of shameless self"promotion and opportunistic gig slots have led to them working up quite [...]

Artist: kiptoAuthor: Kipto
Kipto"s rants" more musings from a tortured soul.
Fucking self pitying wimps
A couple of weeks ago whilst reading the movie bible that is Empire magazine" I came across a full"page ad for Q magazine. Q"s a decent mag" although it"s no Mojo. Anyway" the subject of the ad for the latest addition [...]