'If you’ve never tuned-in, turned-on and dropped-out, then you’re not just missing out on the joys of one particular sub-genre of rock music, you’re missing out on pretty much the whole damn thing' - Hugh McCabe on this year's Liverpool Psych Fest
Aoife Barry hit the road to see Marina and the Diamonds, Miike Snow and Digitalism gig in Carlow, of all places.
Midlake 'radiate a different kind of light' on their return to Cork, says Siobhán Kane
'if you’re not into posting to Instagram constantly, you’re probably at the wrong show' - Dara Higgins on Múm's recent gig at The Button Factory
'MBV have an impossible task ahead of them. Like an indie George Lucas they are surely aware that they will disappoint a lot of people by not curing cancer with their new album' - WatchingCattle checks out My Bloody Valentine's Asian tour warmup show at the Brixton Electric in London.
"... it might have seemed ramshackle, but had assuredness at its core, something which Muhly references as disorganised and casual but instead seemed more like fluid poetry." - Siobhán Kane attended Nico Muhly & Owen Pallett's recent performance at the Barbican Centre in London.
Paul G Smyth and Chris Corsano's 'engaging double-team attack on the senses' leaves an impression on MacDara Conroy
"It’s time to throw punk rock out the door and embrace middle age. The balcony it is, vertiginously positioned above the seething, balding mass below, pogoing and crowd surfing and acting as if tomorrow wasn’t a work day." Dara Higgins reviews last Sunday's PiL gig at The Button Factory.
Siobhán Kane made the trip to France for the Justin Vernon-curated Pitchfork Paris (and a little illicit sandwich smuggling) a couple of weeks ago.