The Berlin experience began on the Friday morning at around 7am on a bumpy landing with a certain cheap airline. As much as I truly love Ireland, going away really makes me wish we could do things a little better. It’s the small things. Like effective public transport from an airport. Things are immediately easy [...]

Suicide Silence (SS) are in somewhat of a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” scenario. With the recent surge in deathcore in recent years many bands are tarred with the same brush as some lacklustre bands. Why? Because they hit the scene at the same time as those lesser bands. Californian bruisers Suicide [...]

With a name like Fukkk Offf, you’d be moronic not to review it wouldn’t you? You know when you see that stunner across the floor in a packed club and you just get the feeling that she’s nothing but an attention seeking bimbo so you turn in disgust. Only then you discover while your outside [...]

It’s so frickin’ hot! And he’s jumping around in that crazy, nitted red hat/gimp-mask thing! That bass player from Adebisi Shank must be a lizard or some shit. I’m in a t-shirt, dressed for warmer weather than this dude is expecting and I can still feel my kidneys simmering to boiling point. [...]

The shindig that put Stradbally on the map, Electric Picnic, is back with a bang. But before you reach for a head-torch in honour of the return of Orbital, or a Hawaiian shirt in homage to Brian Wilson take a while, as I’m sure you will, to sift through the array of downright exotic and [...]

Beer, beer, beer, kebabs, beer, beer, Mariachi hats, beer, aprons, beer, punters, beer, cider, beer, slaps, beer, cross-dressing, beer, cocks, beer, cocks, beer, arses, tits, guns, beer, hosiery, beer, punters, sunglasses, beer, cars, Cannibal Corpse, beer, birthmarks, beer, wine, beer, curly haired men, guitars and drums: you’ll need Polo mints after 20 minutes of filthy [...]

Well we mightn’t be the first to let you know that Ireland’s greatest songwriter Jinx Lennon is releasing a DVD called Magic, Rawness and Rage, on October the 9th but we can better our rivals with an exclusive track featuring the man himself.

When Yeah Yeah Yeahs (YYY)played Oxegen in July of this year, their show included pouring rain, technological malfunctions and Karen O adorned in a multi-coloured cape that only she could pull off. Well Miss O did it again. Donning the same cape and a single glow-in-the-dark pink glove (in honour of the late MJ perhaps?), she [...]

It is difficult to know what exactly to say about Red Eskimo’s The Grey Death Billow. On the one hand, it is a record that will not make any great impact. It is too limited, too constructed, and too much of an attempt to create a certain type of genre record. On the other, the musicians [...]

Nowadays, you don’t seem to have to do much to be called a legend. Most of them are leg ends, as the saying goes. But on this day in 1990, an absolute true legend died. Stevie Ray Vaughan was the brightest spark in blues in years. And a poxy helicopter killed him. SRV was an [...]