Artist: Okkervil RiverAuthor: Jason Golden
Okkervil River play the Academy next friday" 7th of November. For your chance to win VIP passes simply answer the following:
Can you name Okkervil Rivers latest album released last month"
Answers by email to jason"drop"d.ie

Hotly tipped Scottish band" Broken Records have been confirmed as special guests to Okkervil River for their upcoming [...]

Artist: HalvesAuthor: Jason Golden
First up" Halves have been invited to play in Toronto next March as part of the Canadian Music Week. Naturally they are incredibly excited about the opportunity" and hopefully will have a few more gigs lined up in that neck of the woods to coincide with the festival.
Next up" Bellx1 have asked [...]

Artist: Parenthetical GirlsAuthor: Jason Golden
PARENTHETICAL GIRLS
Nov 21" Whelans" Upstairs
Tickets "10 from WAV" City Discs" Tickets.ie" Road" Ticketmaster.ie

Parenthetical Girls "formerly The Swastika Girls" are an experimental pop band formed in Everett" Washington" and currently based in Portland" Oregon.
Begun primarily as a recording project" the current touring version of the band consists of Zac Pennington" Rachael Jensen" [...]

Artist: Imelda May Author: P"dhraic McArdle
Despite the albums awful title "it screams Pink" it certainly is an interesting debut from the Dublin born" London based Imelda May. Irish Jazz"abilly is hardly a saturated genre of music but one we may be hearing more and more.
After getting an unexplained late call to appear on Later"with Jools [...]

Artist: DeerhunterAuthor: Jason Golden
Released this week" Microcastle " the follow"up to 2006s critically lauded Cryptograms " has sure captured attention. Time Out heaped much praise on it" ""Deerhunter" weave ethereal" wraithlike songs that touch the heights of Flaming Lips" Pavement and My Bloody Valentine"" while Pitchfork scored it an impressive 9.2" citing it to be [...]

Artist: Story Of HairAuthor: Jason Golden
To celebrate the launch of their debut album" Cheap Rate Story of Hair play a special gig at Whelans this Friday" 31st Oct. Story of Hair also release their single Nanny Natch on the night.
Story of Hair are a Dublin based band" formed from a shared love of
inspirational bands such [...]

Artist: JapeAuthor: Jason Golden
" Tickets on sale 9am this Friday "
Biggest Dublin headliner to date for Jape following his lauded shows at the Electric Picnic and in Button Factory last month.
POD Concerts presents
JAPE
Support: tba
Thursday December 18th
Tripod " POD Complex " Harcourt St
Doors " 7.30pm
Tickets "15 "standing" " "20 "seated" "both inc. booking fee" available [...]

Artist: John Illsley "Dire Straits" and Greg PearleAuthor: Jason Golden
Dolittle presents
John Illsley"Dire Straits" and Greg Pearle
and special guest:
Whelans November 11th
Tickets available from WAV "lo"call 1890 200 078"" City Discs" Road Records" Tickets.ie " Ticketmaster
Along with being a part of one of the worlds most successful bands ""Dire Straits"" who pioneered the transition from [...]

Artist: M83
Author: Brendan Morgan
As one of the more familiar names on the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival “DEAF” lineup” expectations are high within the confines of Vicar Street for French electro”shoegazers M83” a feeling exasperated by the fact that American contemporaries Trans Am are playing to similar crowd in Whelan’s. It seems many may have opted [...]

Artist: Max Tundra
Author: Adam Lacey
It”s fair to say this album evoked a huge amount of nostalgia for this reviewer as it played on repeat in the Drop”D issue laptop over the last while.
Years ago” in the days when MTV played music there was a show called Alternative Nation” hosted by the follically”perfect Toby Amies” that [...]