The year 2009 in music.

The final results are in.  Rage Against The Machine are the official Christmas UK Number One with Killing In The Name Of.   Simultaneously they’ve reached number 2 in the Irish Charts.  And that’s not all!  They’ve grabbed the record for the first ever Christmas Number One available for purchase through download only.  Not bad [...]

One of the hardest parts of writing regularly is when you see the sequence of words you type before you and still don’t want to accept it. That unreal feeling that you don’t want to believe what you’re writing about is something anyone in this line has to deal with, but doesn’t make the medicine [...]

I think it’s fair to say that the vast majority of you readers have a band that you champion. Well, I say “champion”. I really mean that you breathlessly, frantically espouse their quality to any set of working human ears unfortunate enough to be in your general vicinity at any given moment.

Channelling a multiplicity of influences like that of rock, jazz and metal Túcan are destined to scale dizzying heights. Equipped with two acoustic guitars, Pearse Feeney and Donal Gunne, both Sligo natives hammer out an insistent barrage of acoustic instrumental tunes which at times relentlessly strides and at others gently soothes. Now they’ve morphed into a [...]

Some shots taken at one of the funniest gig of this year, Electric Six, who played at the Academy last 5th December, supported by the Eureka Machines, a four pieces punk rock band from Leeds, UK.

 
With a well-received long-player Romance, Romance, the  memorable Immoveable Feet EP and a veritable smorgus board of gigs under their  belt, Land Lovers have cracked Ireland in most ways. Drop-d caught up with Land Lovers front-man Padraig Cooney, and looks back over a succesful debut year in the Irish music scene, frustrations over difficulties in cracking [...]

Pay attention. This is very important. In 2007 Between The Buried And Me more or less cast aside their early hardcore leanings and fully embraced their progressive sensibilities that was always present in their music. They did so in the form of the record entitled Colors.

Gomez playing at The Academy last 28th November 2009, which was one of the best live show I’ve seen in the last months. here we go with some shots:

Not intending to generalise all of its disciples, but Black metal is a genre in underground music that has some of the most po-faced fans. Fans that will only accept ‘true’ black metal bands as long as they’re from Scandanavia somewhere, and whose promo photos depict the band waving “intimidating” weapons resembling large television aerials. [...]