MacDara Conroy surveys the landscape of heavy, noisy and interesting music over the past 12 months
Efterklang play The Button Factory on October 26th as part of their three date Irish tour and we've a couple of tickets for you to win.
Whelan's will host a free screening of Efterklang's documentary The Ghost Of Piramida on Monday evening.
Win tickets to see Purity Ring & Doldrums, playing The Button Factory on Thursday 29th November.
"It's difficult to know how to take it really, are you being condescended to? Are you in on the joke? Is it a joke? It's pleasant to listen to anyway, but its purpose – if it has one – is difficult to divine." - Ian Maleney on Mature Themes, the new album from Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti.
"Of course, if Mister Mr Lewis didn’t want a review becoming a breakfast club full of references to the nineteen eighties then he wouldn’t have gone right ahead and made an entire album out of them."
Dustin O'Halloran plays The Sugar Club with Johann Johannsson and Hauschka on Sunday. Ian Maleney spoke with him about Berlin life, collaborations, and finding your own audience.
"When it works, it's terrific, but otherwise I'm left with an overwhelming sense of ambivalence." - Dara Higgins thinks the internet might be wrong about Grimes.
"We may as well be dressed in black, standing by a pile of dirt next to a grave, about to toss a flower onto a wooden casket." - Aoife Barry on Blues Funeral, the new Mark Lanegan Band album.
