Category: News & Reviews
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5 new(ish) records that you need to hear (Issue#3)
This weeks mix of genres is refreshing, and your top five for the weekend features some new music that’s only a day old — happy birthday! I know you’re sick for new tunes, feast your ears on these. #1 Novacane — Abra (September 2017) Abra’s first R&B EP was released in 2015, and her continued success the next year…
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Album review: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002) by The Flaming Lips
Rating: 4.5/5 A strange and finely crafted masterpiece. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is an unintended concept album that tells the story of one Japanese woman’s battle with cancer. It is unintended, in that the band did not set out with any story in mind when they began recording for the album, it just ended…
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5 new(ish) records that you need to hear (issue #2)
There isn’t an article in the world that is long enough to give the music of the last five years, or ten years, justice. This is a modest salute to the new music of 2017, broken up into weekly chunks because I am a human and I need to sleep. Catering to all sounds, here’s…
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For 9 days I presented on 2 radio shows — here’s the story of Griff FM. Part 2: The Electric Hour #3,#4
Continuing the saga of Griff FM, we come to the final two hours of the Electric Hour, an electronic music show that had a very short but exciting life on the Griff FM station earlier this year. I was delighted to host these hours of noise pollution. Numbers 3 and 4 were particularly special — I had…
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5 new(ish) records that you need to hear (issue #1)
Music is food for the soul, and those moments where we can spend time doing nothing but listen to these beautiful sounds are precious. Wasting no more time, here’s some delicious, fresh audio nourishment. #1 The Gate — Björk (2017) This is the first track to be released from Björk’s upcoming album, as yet untitled, which will…
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For 9 days I presented on 2 radio shows — here’s the story of Griff FM. Part 1: The Electric Hour #1, #2
Every year for nine days on the campus of Griffith College Dublin, Griff FM becomes the HQ of the movements of Journalism and Media Communications students. Run entirely by some 43 clued in minds, Griff FM 107.8 was live all day every day from 28 January until 5 February. Our team signed up for a…
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