Artist: Therapy"Author: Mike McGrath Bryan
After 20 years and constant reinvention " challenge to the music industry and themselves" Therapy" return with what could well be their masterpiece. Crooked Timber has been three years in the making" and the wait has been well worth it" it not only affirms the band's incredible legacy" but takes them [...]

Artist: Rival ConsolesAuthor: Paul Murphy
Purveyor of intelligent dance music" Rival Consoles" is 21"year old Ryan Lee West from Leicester in the Midlands of England. After having supported his city neighbours and label comrades Kyte on an extensive European tour in November 2008" West locked himself away all winter to finish his first full"length album" set [...]

Artist: NOFXAuthor: Paddy Murphy
NOFX
Olympia Theatre
Saturday 25th April 2009
Tickets "28.50 including booking fee
Over 14"s welcome
Doors 7pm
West coast punk activists NOFX are set to ignite Dublin"s Olympia Theatre this April. NOFX have sold over 6 million records worldwide making them one of the most important and influential independent bands on the planet. Tickets from "28.50 including booking [...]

The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster will be blasting the ears off all and sundry at Crawdaddy this Friday night. The psycho-rockers will be making their Irish debut on the night, and not before time.

Artist: Stand Up Guy
Author: Paul Groome
This is the first release from StandUp Guy I’ve had the pleasure of hearing. And so, I don’t have the benefit of a previous release as a point of comparison. This is not a bad thing. I think Avenue Unawares is well able to stand up on its own too [...]

Dolittle presents Angel Pier and special guests A Lazarus Soul and Lines Drawing Circles at Andrews Lane Theatre on March 7th.

Artist: MagwaiAuthor: Paddy Murphy
MOGWAI ANNOUNCE SUPPORTS AND DJ SET
FOR ACADEMY RESIDENCY
Mogwai have announced supports acts for when they take over Dublin"s Academy for a weekend residency next month on Friday 20th" Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd of March.
Glaswegian rockers Desalvo will open for the band on Friday night and Remember Remember will join [...]

Artist: Brian DeadyAuthor: Naomi McArdle
Cork's own Brian Deady is taking up the mantle of Master of Irish Soul" at least that's the idea. This May sees the release of his debut album Interview and after 2008's single Any Ol' Ting caused much furore and clashing opinion here on Drop"D" we await the album with baited [...]

Artist: Crystal AntlersAuthor: Colm Cullen
Definitely buy this" it"s one of the best things I"ve heard in a long while.
My interweb"thingy"s busted" so I haven"t got any research done on this crowd as I write.
The only info I have is from the bio that came with it" which says they were formed in California in 2006" [...]

Green Lights : Giving Irish Music The Go Ahead
How many times have you fallen in love with a record only to discover, much to your horror, that the band have broken up? Such is the fate of unsuspecting Irish indie music fans who have not yet discovered Green Lights – this Friday 27 February sees [...]