JK Simmons is more than a supporting actor in breakout jazz drama Whiplash says MacDara Conroy
MacDara Conroy surveys the landscape of heavy, noisy and interesting music over the past 12 months
Tickets are on sale now for Lean Left (The Ex Guitars meets Nilssen-Love/Vandermark Duo) who play Whelan's on 18th September.
"...a blueprint that takes the rapid-fire attack of grind and applies it to abrasive take-no-prisoners free jazz. Or maybe it's the other way round." - MacDara Conroy faces the aural onslaught that is Dead Neanderthals.
Sunn O))) return to Dublin for a performance in The Button Factory on July 18th
'There is definitely an element of trying to control things that are not controllable' - Norwegian avant-jazz guitarist Stian Westerhus talks to Ian Maleney ahead of his date in Dublin this week.
‘A voyage, as all performances by The Necks are, and this one braves some particularly stormy waters’ - MacDara Conroy on the Australian improv jazz trio’s gig at the Peacock
'It feels fresh and unencumbered, perhaps because I know nothing about it' - Ian Maleney on Decoy With Joe McPhee's 'Spontaneous Combustion'.
Australian ambient jazz trio The Necks return to Ireland for four dates next month, including a performance in Christ Church Cathedral
The Bad Plus kick off a 6 performance Irish tour in Belfast this Friday. Siobhán Kane nabbed pianist Ethan Iverson for a quick chat just before he jumped on a plane.