Posted on 30th Sep 10 by Jonathan Keane | 
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Ukraine’s Drudkh have, over the course of seven previous albums, maintained some anonymity and mysticism in their atmospheric black metal. However, eighth effort, Handful Of Stars is a stray away from their old beaten path, one that may surprise and in other regards not. After all, this is a band whom not a lot of [...]
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Posted on 29th Sep 10 by Jane Ward | 1
After the success of their first single Secret History Dublin based noise merchants The Minutes are back with Fleetwood, the second single from their forthcoming album Marcata. The video, filmed on location in Bray, was Philip Kelly’s directorial debut for The Minutes and had a budget of under a thousand euro with most of the [...]
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Posted on 28th Sep 10 by Jonathan Keane | 2
What words spring to mind when Swans are mentioned? Fascinating and incendiary may be some of them. Maybe divisive too, but more often than not – celebrated. It’s been 14 long years since this assemblage of rousing and evocative oddballs have delivered some new music. While it’s not a classic line-up reunion, depending on what [...]
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Posted on 27th Sep 10 by Paul Groome | 0
Man, I want to go and see these guys play if the ever come through town. I’m not going to try to put a tag on them because I don’t want to influenced be it. So lets just say they’re a blend of some of the elements of early Green Day, Muse and maybe a touch [...]
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Posted on 24th Sep 10 by Jonathan Keane | 0
Across four exceptional albums the ludicrously technical instrumental metal outfit Canvas Solaris have garnered a much esteemed reputation for themselves. Fifth full length Irradiance, the follow up to 2008’s The Atomized Dream, continues that awe inspiring trajectory with aplomb.
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Posted on 23rd Sep 10 by Ciara O Brien | 1
Sean Kangataran’s début album is self-titled like so many that have gone before. In Kangataran’s case, it is different, here the artist has somehow managed to infuse so much of his own quirky personality into his first offering that it could really be called nothing other than Sean Kangataran.
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Posted on 22nd Sep 10 by Paul Groome | 0
I don’t get this at all. Pheonix23 are a five piece lineup from Belfast who’ve been knocking around for the past three years or so, were noticed by Carl Yerheyeh, guitarist with Supertramp. Carl invited the band to LA to record their debut album in Sunset Studios. Bernard Matthews was flown in for production duties [...]
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Posted on 21st Sep 10 by Alessio Michelini | 0
If a band can do three sold out gigs in the Olympia Theatre it should mean something, right? And I have to say that the hundreds of fan of MGMT weren’t disappointed at the end of the day from the band performance. Someone said that thursday it wasn’t be so great, but the show I [...]
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Posted on 19th Sep 10 by Paul Groome | 0
Musically this EP has it together. These lads have hit the nail on the head. The combination of flavours borrowed from a few different genres, has brought together an interesting few tracks here. There’s a lot going on in each song, using interesting dynamics and a vocal style that refreshing to hear. It lends itself [...]
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Posted on 19th Sep 10 by Mike McGrath Bryan | 1
Northern Irish alt-rock legends Therapy? have unveiled the title and release date for their 20th anniversary live album, recorded in March of this year at the Monto Water Rats venue in London.
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