It’s a path that occurs way too often in pop. A promising young artist gets noticed for their idiosyncratic take on pop and then proceeds to be stripped of each interesting trait until nothing but a sanitised blandness remains. Back in 2009, Anita Blay aka
Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt have all of the cute…Frank Loesser’s 1947 song was covered by Nancy Wilson and Ella Fitzgerald.Original post via Hello Giggles.
A list of recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin and especially New Year’s Eve . All times are 7.30pm /8pm unless stated. Feel free to recommend gigs not listed in the comments.Thursday December 29thPrimal Scream Screamadelica, Adrian Sherwood
tUnE-yArDs - ‘Bizness’
M83 – ‘Midnight City’
Adele – ‘Rolling In The Deep’ Jamie xx remix
Active Child – ‘Hanging On’
Austra – ’Lose It’
The Weeknd - ‘The Morning’
Active Child - ‘Playing House’ feat. How To Dress Well
Hudson Mohawke – ‘Thunder Bay’
Holy
Hit play and hear a song from each album in my top 30 of 2011.30. The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (whole album stream)
29. Cut Copy – Zonoscope
28. Modeselektor – Monkeytown
27. Ghostpoet – Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam
Here we are. The end of the sixth year of the Nialler9 poll. Thank you all once again for voting. We had about 100 or so votes that made up the results in songs, new artists, EPs and now, the big one – albums. Our
The top 25 Irish songs as chosen by you featured eight of my own personal choices in its midst, so we all seem to be in general agreement right? Not bloody likely. Thanks for voting. Tomorrow, I’ll reveal the top 25 Irish albums while Irish
I’ve had my say, now we’re kicking off your say in the first results of the readers’ poll with your top Irish EPs and new artists of 2011.Both those lists follow along with links and embeds to where you can hear why they got the
I spent all of Monday afternoon listening to the first two mixtapes from The Weeknd, House of Balloons and Thursday. There’s enough quality material there that I really didn’t anticipate the final part of the trilogy would come before the end of the year but
To conclude the new artist series of guest posts, we have an exclusive collection of The Rubberbandits’ top 5 new artists of 2011. Blind Boy Boat Club and Mr Chrome have just released their pretty serious double album Serious About Men which contains the earworms