BATS, Squarehead, Logikparty, Jogging & Hands Up Who Wants To Die are all playing this year's Richter Collective Christmas Party in The Button Factory on Friday 16th December.
Rusted Rail's 2011 Christmas party with will Rites, The Driftwood Manor, Yawning Chasm & more will be held in the Roisin Dubh on December 19th.
"Together they tackle a few of the classics in a way Dean Martin might have done if he were just waking up from a coma." - Not much festive cheer from Dara Higgins for She & Him's A Very She & Him Christmas.
Squarehead have released a cover of the Phil Spector classic Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) as a free download.
'Jimmy Cake' sounds like a sweet gangster or spiced teacake but instead is the name conferred by a seven-piece spread of musicians in Dublin. Nay McArdle spoke to Vincent Dermody and Paul G.Smyth ahead of their December 23rd Crawdaddy gig.