Posted on 17th Sep 10 by Gwen Langford | 
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Released in anticipation of an album release in November Songs for the Road from Evil Uncle is a five track EP which does indeed whet the appetite of the listener for what is to come. The songs will appeal to those who like singer/songwriters and who appreciate interesting lyrics with some beautiful melodies and strong vocals. Evil Uncle ticks all [...]
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Posted on 16th Sep 10 by Jonathan Keane | 1
“Frankly, there’s just nothing on A Thousand Suns that grabs you by the balls, the figurative balls of course…”
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Posted on 16th Sep 10 by Mike McGrath Bryan | 0
Ohio’s finest one-man ambient/post-rock/shoegaze/djent project, Cloudkicker, has released its second album proper today for pay-what-you-want on its Bandcamp. Beacons follows on from Ben Sharp‘s creation’s ]]][[[ E.P., which won rave reviews everywhere it went to review for its shoegaze bent on Cloudkicker‘s already immense sound. The album is available as a download, but in an [...]
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Posted on 16th Sep 10 by Mike McGrath Bryan | 0
BAFTA-nominated music game hits the internet for free in casual-gaming-friendly form…
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Posted on 15th Sep 10 by Connor Moloney | 0
With a particularly beardy, new agey, nu-folky band name and album title you might expect, a, well, particularly beardy, new agey, nu-folky set. You’d be right.
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Posted on 15th Sep 10 by Kevin Forde | 0
It seems nowhere can escape the pinch of the tightening belt of a recession, even Ireland’s favourite boutique festival had to scale back a bit this year. Some early exploring revealed the cinema tent was no longer with us, Arcadia and it’s fire breathing monoliths had been scaled back and a few other smaller stages [...]
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Posted on 14th Sep 10 by Mike McGrath Bryan | 1
Cork’s premier grind entertainment system I’ll Eat Your Face recently posted quite an interesting video from their August 10th excursion to Fred Zeppelin’s: what appears to be a grind cover of one of those dance tunes that no-one remembers the name of, followed swiftly by chunky riffing on MC Hammer’s obviously grind-friendly crossover hit, Can’t [...]
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Posted on 14th Sep 10 by Ciara O Brien | 0
Brendan Muldowney’s feature debut Savage is an unflinching look at the violent world we live in, and the weight of masculinity. Savage has been spoken about as being a ‘revenge film’, which on the surface it is, but underneath it is something much more. A powerful investigation of our contemporary culture which, Muldowney suggests here, utilizes [...]
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Posted on 14th Sep 10 by Jane Ward | 0
The Astral Plains festival took place in the grounds of Birr Castle, Co. Offally on 26th June. The festival is one of a number of Boutique Festivals popping up all over the country. The festival had a really laid back family atmosphere that I enjoyed and it had a lot to offer other than music. [...]
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Posted on 14th Sep 10 by Jonathan Keane | 0
Audio Secrecy, Stone Sour’s third album, should be one more step to the band shedding the “side project” stigma, hopefully. 2006 predecessor, Come What(ever) May was a major step up from the self titled debut in all aspects, from Corey Taylor’s increasingly melodic vocals, but maintaining some razor edge intensity, to the overall song writing [...]
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