Stephen Mogerley captured Lykke’s in-store Tower Records performance in Dublin on Record Store Day for State Magazine.
The lack of broadcasting outlets for music videos in this country hasn’t done much to quash the creativity of the directors and bands looking to match their music to great visuals. Here are three great recent examples. No Monster Club – ‘The Last Bottle In The World’ (premiere) The world’s first ‘wigglegram’ music video according [...]
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Directed by Rubert Morris of Bats, Squarehead’s first music video sees them partaking in a round of golf only to be foiled by a red-jumpsuited delinquent played by Bryan Robson.Hear the single and B-side.
Funeral Suits are a band who are really finding their own sound at the moment. They were very impressive at the SXSW show I caught last month. The band have been recording with Stephen Street over the last couple of years and ‘Colour Fade’ is my favourite track from them so far. It has a [...]
Nine Types of Light is as much an album as it is a movie by TV on the Radio. The movie is meant to be a visual re-imagining of the record, and includes a music video for every song on the album. The band personally asked their friends and the filmmakers they admired to help [...]
Never trust a trench-coated Martian. Here’s why. Directed by Jordan Kim. Pick up the 12″ via Mexican Summer.Star Slinger plays The Bernard Shaw, Dublin on April 29th.
All kinds of amazing. Two Beastie Boys posts in a week. The trailer for the 30 minute video for the Beastie Boys ‘Fight For Your Right Revisited’ stars Seth Rogen, Elijah Wood and Danny McBride (as vintage Beasties), Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly and Jack Black (as future Beasties), the real Beasties (as cops), Susan [...]
GhostPoet goes walking around the hood with a cup of tea in the video for ‘Survive It’ and encounters some shadowy monsters. Fabiana Palladino is the vocalist on the track. This is the second single from GP’s brilliant album Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam and it’s released on May 9th through Brownswood. It will [...]
VHS-style vid for the latest single off Republic of Loose’s Bounce At The Devil album. Directed by Gareth Averill (of Great Lakes Mystery) and Luke Franklin (who did the GPO ‘Ballet Shoes’ video) and produced by Tidal. if you fancy an…