These two ladies play Twisted Pepper Thursday night along with Temper-Mental MissElayneous. Read an interview with them on State by Bitzl R’s Alan Reilly.
THEESatisfaction – ‘QueenS’ (video)
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Listen to Record Store Gay – a compilation of gay anthem covers from Irish bands
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 3 comments
Record Store Day is happening on Saturday and as well as a buttload of once-off special releases and lots of daytime events in Dublin, nationwide and worldwide.
One of the more unique releases “coming out” on Saturday is Record Store Gay in which a bunch of independent bands have recorded covers of their favourite gay anthems. So we get Logikparty doing Jimmy Sommerville’s You Make Me Feel Mighty Real, Crayonsmith doing Blondie’s ‘Atomic’, Drunken Boat doing Culture Club’s ‘Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?’, Gaz Le Rock covering Anita Ward’s ‘Ring My Bell‘, Hello Moon revising “I Feel Love’ and an Abba medley by Kiss By The Book.
Humansuit feat. Gonjasufi – ‘Lawnmower Man’ (Flying Lotus production)
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 1 comment
Not much information on this other than Humansuit are Isaiah Toothtaker and Mestizo and here, they’ve teamed up with Gonjasufi on a Flying Lotus production.
Kool Thing – ‘We Are Here’
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - Add a comment
Kool Thing dropped their debut EP Light Games back in January and next month the Berlin-based duo of Jon Dark and Julie Chance will follow that up with another EP at the end of May. ‘We Are Here’ is taken from that release. Its gnarled and creeped rhythm turns with shadowed guitar notes and voice treatments while synths ping in the distance. The song’s beat keeps us on the beaten track rather than lose us in the darkness.
Kool Thing will be playing Camden Crawl Dublin on May 12th as well as Forbidden Fruit and other plans include a 12″ of ‘Plan.Life.Go’ in June with remixes by two of Cork’s finest Toby Kaar and REID. They’ve also remixed Light Asylum recently. Hear that below.
The Nialler9 Dublin gig guide // April 17th – 23rd
Monday, April 16, 2012 - Add a comment
Highlights: THEEsatisfaction (pictured) , Ryan Adams, Record Store Day gigs, Ships, Fujiya & Miyagi, Trinity Ball, Katie Kim, Seamus Fogarty, Werk & more.
This is the weekly list of recommended gigs taking place over the next seven days in Dublin published every Tuesday. All times are 7.30/8pm unless stated. Feel free to recommend events not present in the comments below. If you’re looking for tickets to sold out gigs try #ticketfairy on Twitter.
Jessie Ware – ’110%’ (production by Julio Bashmore)
Monday, April 16, 2012 - Add a comment
I saw Jessie Ware’s gig at Eurosonic and I wasn’t that impressed. I didn’t think the live show was ready at that point so I had sort of written her off a bit. ’110%’ tells me I might have been a bit unfair to dismiss her which is why I overlooked her Sade-esque previous single ‘Running’. Not that it seemed many bookers in the audience that day felt the same; she’s since been booked for Melt, Pukkelpop, Bestival and Field Day.
Songs like ’110%’ are why. It’s a click-clacking soulful track with subtle production and an odd sample that fits from Julio Bashmore. It reminds me of Body Language’s ‘Social Studies’ a bit. Jessie’s album is due in the summer. I hope her live show is better now.
Introducing: Pure Bathing Culture – Vetiver duo’s sweet indie-pop project
Monday, April 16, 2012 - 1 comment
Portland(ia) is hometown for Pure Bathing Culture, the oddly-named indie-pop duo of Daniel Hindman and Sarah Versprille. Their debut self-titled EP is out on May 22nd through Father/Daughter Records. Its four tracks are full of sweet melodies, ’80s guitar effects and subtle synth sounds.
The pair are in the band Vetiver together and started writing songs as a duo in 2009 in New York before moving to Oregon last year where they hooked up with Richard Swift to record the EP. The band’s bright arrangements are comparable to Tennis and Beach House. ‘Ivory Coast’ is the free-to-download lead track from the EP and it embodies all of the aforementioned qualities.
More tracks from the EP are on Bandcamp and below. Vinyl pre-order.
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Album stream roundup: Death Grips, Clark, Santigold Clock Opera, Spiritualized, Nicki Minaj, Maps & Atlases, Battles & more
Monday, April 16, 2012 - Add a comment
The best of new album streams this week in A-Z form. See recent album streams in the category page. Definitely wrap your ears around Death Grips, Clock Opera and Clark for sure.
Battles – Dross Glop
Bleeding Knees Club – Nothing to Do
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Introducing: Forrests – Channel One members make sky-reaching electronica
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While Dublin’s Channel One are on hold, band members Paul O’ Reilly and Owen O’ Mahony have made an album of electronic material together as Forrests. ‘Billions’ is the first listen to the band, a succint instrumental track that mines similar sky-reaching terrain as M83′s starry-eyed moments. Ones to keep an eye on.
Download the track from Bandcamp and like the band on Facebook.
Major Lazer – ‘Get Free’ feauring Amber Coffman of Dirty Projectors
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Diplo and Switch asked Amber Coffman to collaborate on Major Lazer’s superb new digital dancehall single. Her tones shine through when she’s front and centre away from the cacophony of Dirty Projectors. It’s a free download at majorlazergetfree.com along with a Bonde Do Role remix. Amber Coffman previously collaborated with Rusko.
