There are four tracks here, and this EP clocks in at an excitable 35 minutes. Alma is possibly one of the most challenging listening experiences of the year, but a challenge wholly greeted with open arms, or more specifically open ears.

2009 has definitely been a year where Justin Broadrick has had the urge to keep busy, very busy with his current lifeblood Jesu. This year has seen the release of the monolithic and strangely cathartic 50 minute long one track effort Infinity.

Some bands will always remain an anomaly and the feeling of getting a new album will always feel like a treat, Porcupine Tree are one such band. The Incident is the band’s tenth studio offering, a double album, of which the first disc is an absorbing 55 minute concept spread across fourteen tracks, it’s a [...]

Some shots taken at the Super Extra Bonus Party gig last friday at the Academy, plus special guests Bats, Le Galaxie, the Heathers and Band On An Island.

Spank the Chemical Christians seem something of an enigma if you attempt to do any research on them. Well, maybe they just aren’t that kind of an artist.  In fact, what can be said is that the person behind the weird name is singularly Donal McGuinness who apparently works somewhere in Dublin. On a laptop.  [...]

Some photos taken at the Ham Sandwich’s gig at Whelan’s… from Alessio Michelini

Biffy Clyro have a lot to be proud of. In 2007, with the colossal Puzzle they fulfilled a promise they made with their 2002 debut, Blackened Sky. That promise was that one day these unhinged Scots would shatter the glass ceiling and inexorably invaded the mainstream, entirely on their own terms.

All good things must come to an end so here Drop-d presents it’s final part of our running interviews with the four members of Dublin’s finest, Readers Wives. This time we get to chew the proverbial fat with head-bottle washer Niall James Holohan to find out what makes the band tick and his fantasy involving [...]

With The Academy steadily filling up, and the crowd anitcipating the arrival Marina and the Diamonds, Dublin based artist Valerie Francis takes to the stage as the support act for tonight, a lone figure armed only with an accoustic guitar.  

Dublin Rocks! festival takes place in the Village, Wexford St this weekend (Novemeber 13th and 14th).
Drop-d are delighted to announce that we are giving away two passes to tonight’s leg (Friday) of the Dublin Rocks! festival for a chance to see Dub County, Jaded Sun and headline act The Spikes.
So to win entry and to find out just [...]