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Live Review: Hermitage Green – Vicar Street, Dublin 6.11.2021 plus gallery

Hermitage green are a Limerick based five piece rock band consisting of Dan Murphy (guitar and vocals, Barry Murphy (Bass and vocals), Dermot Sheedy (drums and bodhran), Darragh Graham (percussion,…

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Live Review: Frankie Beetlestone / Minds Idle – Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield 6.11.2021

Words: Martin Clarke // Pictures: Jason Siddall Last night was the debut headline gig for Sheffield’s emerging indie-pop prince Frankie Beetlestone – fresh from a triumphant run of support shows…

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Track: Napalm Death Share Video For Track ‘Contagion’ And Announce UK Tour Dates

UK Grindcore band Napalm Death are currently on the road all across North American as part of the “Scumdogs 30th Anniversary Tour” with Gwar as well as labelmates EyeHateGod. The…

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See: Samana drop the languorous, calm-before-the-storm psych-folk of ‘The Beach’; announce an album and tour for ’22

WITH one fully acclaimed record of super-atmospheric, haunting psych-folk under their belts – 2019’s Ascension, for FatCat – and also having spent a couple of years rebuilding an 18th-century farmhouse…

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See: Mess Esque release dreamy, whimsical video for heartbreakingly beautiful track ‘Wake Up To Yesterday’

Hot on the heels of the release of their brilliant debut self titled album (reviewed by me here), the super duo Mess Esque have unveiled a video for the track…

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Film Review: Uppercase Print

Of all the directors from the Romanian new wave who have made an impression on international cinema, it is perhaps Radu Jude who has been the most confrontational. And he…

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Track: Napalm Death’s Shane Embury’s Project Dark Sky Burial Share Video For New Track ‘Mind Rat’

The 4th album from Shane Embury’s venture Dark Sky Burial, ‘Omnis Cum In Tenebris Praesertim Vita Laboret’ which translates as “Life is one long struggle in the Dark”, is due…

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Blu-ray Review: Sailor Suit and The Machine Gun

There have always been child prodigies whose talent and dedication have allowed them to succeed in their area of expertise. Performing well ahead of their years. This success if usually…

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See: The kosmiche of New Age Doom & Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s ‘Step In Space’: a final, collaborative dose from the dub genius

LIKE his unparalleled predecessor Sun Ra, much-missed dub legend Lee “Scratch” Perry always claimed he came from outer space – and who are we to argue? Let’s hope he’s returned…

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See: Alyssa Gengos drops the lighter-than-air, bedroom pop caress of ‘Gothenburg English’ – the world may well already be at her feet

SHE’S already being touted in certain quarters of the music press as the first big thing of 2022. which seems quite an epithet to carry given we’re not even there…

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Live Review: Hermitage Green – Vicar Street, Dublin 6.11.2021 plus gallery

Live Review: Frankie Beetlestone / Minds Idle – Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield 6.11.2021

Track: Napalm Death Share Video For Track ‘Contagion’ And Announce UK Tour Dates

See: Samana drop the languorous, calm-before-the-storm psych-folk of ‘The Beach’; announce an album and tour for ’22

See: Mess Esque release dreamy, whimsical video for heartbreakingly beautiful track ‘Wake Up To Yesterday’

Film Review: Uppercase Print

Track: Napalm Death’s Shane Embury’s Project Dark Sky Burial Share Video For New Track ‘Mind Rat’

Blu-ray Review: Sailor Suit and The Machine Gun

See: The kosmiche of New Age Doom & Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s ‘Step In Space’: a final, collaborative dose from the dub genius

See: Alyssa Gengos drops the lighter-than-air, bedroom pop caress of ‘Gothenburg English’ – the world may well already be at her feet