Category: News & Reviews
-
Support in Self Isolation #1: COVID-19 Online Resources
For everyone who is self-isolating and staying at home there is the opportunity of time alongside the crisis. Regularly throughout our time in lock down I will share useful and interesting online resources, such as open documents created by music communities, feminist e-books, books to order online, music podcasts, feminist podcasts and communities. This first…
-
Latest EP from WOB! shows strong technique and inspiration from Greek myth
Odysseus, the latest EP from producer and multi-instrumentalist WOB! has made me thing about the creative journey. A creative project originates from somewhere in our mind. We feet it, it exists in abstraction, far away from tangible reality, and we have an intangible sense of what it is. Ultimately, we aim to draw it out…
-
All Tomorrow’s Parties: gigs in Cork, Dublin, Galway (Jan-Feb)
Cork Friday February 7th Gyda Valtysdottir, Dreamcycles & Mark Waldron Hayden / An Spailpín Fánach / €15 / 7:30pm The Bonk, Myles Manley & Soft Focus / Kino / €14 / 8:30pm Saturday February 8th Lemoncello & Maija Sofia / Kino / €12 / 3:30pm Friday February 14th Borders Irish Tour with Stephen James Smith…
-
Is ‘Raised Consciousness’ Enough to Tackle Discrimination and Abuse in Ireland’s Music Industries?
In a conversation with Marian Finucane in October 2019, Head of Department, Work and Employment Studies and a Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at the Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick, Christine Cross stated that it is difficult to quantify how the so called ‘#MeToo movement’ has impacted Irish workplaces.…
-
2019 in music culture: takes and low points
Some notable takes and low points in music culture in Ireland and across the Twittersphere in 2019
-
New zine, Spread, to launch at sex worker’s art exhibition in Dublin
A zine for music, sex, and DIY culture, Spread was born from an eruption of frustrated creative energy, which initially had no direction. It quickly found a suitable outlet in the very source of its provocation: commercial media. Drawing inspiration from piles of music magazines, regional and national newspapers, wildlife journals, international political monthlies, furniture…
-
Not Bad: new three-day DIY event showcasing West of Ireland music in Galway
Ireland’s music scene has been gifted an innovative live experience for supporting local indie acts, and supporting young people in music. Not Bad is a new music festival, that also aims to showcase music from the west with informal networking opportunities, and runs from November 29 to December 1, 2019, with each day fostering a…
-
PUZZLEvents returns to the Boat Club in October with fully loaded line-up
Following a brief hiatus after a Balter farewell party, the heavy bass loving crew PUZZLEvents are returning this coming October. To mark the occasion they’ve put together a chunky line-up with a special UK headliner. It’s a jam packed affair with seven artists representing a cluster of labels and collectives; local underground collective Puzzle, Dublin…
-
Foxy Jangle Galway record launch to host cutting edge UK jungle producer in August
Since Foxy Jangle smoothly arose from the underbelly of the jungle scene earlier this year, the jungle-focused and unofficially more eccentric sister label to Rua Sound has supported and released music from two critical music producers – Sully, Kid Lib – and is about to release a third. Tim Reaper is a London based breakbeat…
-
Last of the summer sweat: Gash Collective are throwing a bank holiday garage/house party
On Saturday, August 4, the Galway based music agents Gash Collective are hosting a specially curated garage and house party down at the much loved session bar Bierhaus. Headlining the night is Staxx Lyrical, DJ and radio host on Dublin Digital Radio (Staxx Lyrical). Staxx’s sound brings out the best from garage, funk-as-fuck, house and…
Lazer Guided Reporter 