Highlights: Alt-J, I Am The Cosmos / Ships split launch, White Collar Boy’s launch, Trinity Orchestra perform Radiohead, Walls, Paul Kalkbrenner, Africa Day and Life Festival. This is the weekly list of recommended gigs taking place over the next seven … Read More... →

Listen to 34 new tracks from around the world, as chosen by the Guardian and other bloggers in the Music Alliance Pact Click the play button to listen to individual songs, right click on the song title to download an MP3, or grab a zip file of the whole 34-track compilation through Ge.tt here . ARGENTINA : Zonaindie Prietto Viaja Al Cosmos Con Mariano - Ey, Esa No Es Forma De Decir Adiós PVACCM is a psychedelic rock duo (Mariano, drums and vocals; Prietto, guitar and vocals) from Buenos Aires. Their first recordings were kind of lo-fi experiments but in the past ...

Guest Post: Bitzl R This week for our ongoing Guest Post Feature we hand the the reins to Bitzl R founder to showcase what his blog is all about. Read about Bitzl R and give a listen to his 5 amazing song choices he hand picked for you. Bitzl R started in September 2010 as a space to share music and videos of immediate interest to myself (Alan Reilly.) Initially it was just a pinboard of artists works, posted with no real context, built using Tumblr purely because the nifty interface. However I quickly got wrapped up in the Tumblr ...

Highlights: Sharon Van Etten, Floating Points & Eglo records showcase, Eleanor Friedburger (left), Popicalia #15 (right), Laura Sheeran, Tim Hecker,The Jezebels, Michael Kiwanuka, Johann Johannsson, Hauscha, Dustin O’Halloran… This is the weekly list of recommended gigs taking place over the … Read More... →

Neneh Cherry & The Thing - ‘Dream Baby Dream’ (Four Tet remix) Including covers of  The Stooges, MF Doom, Ornette Coleman, and Don Cherry, Neneh Cherry and Swedish jazz ensemble The Thing will  release an album called  The Cherry Thing next month  on Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound. Also lifted from the record is their rhythm and horns version of ‘Dream Baby Dream’ by Suicide. Kieran Hebdon has history with The Thing, he played with saxophonist Mats Gustafsson at the  Live at the South Bank concert with the late Steve Reid . Four Tet’s spin only extends the song by 30 seconds but ...

Music Alliance Pact é um projeto global que envolve cerca de 40 blogs especializados em música, de diferentes países, que mensalmente realiza uma coletânea com bandas independentes/alternativas desses países. Todo dia 15 é publicada a coletânea com uma música escolhida pelo representante de seu respectivo país de origem. No Brasil, essa função é exercida pelo Meio Desligado, que em Maio selecionou "Linha do trem", do CD de estreia do mineiro Leonardo Marques. Você pode ouvir cada uma das músicas abaixo ou fazer o download gratuito da coletânea completa .   BRASIL :  Meio Desligado Leonardo Marques  -  Linha do Trem Certa nostalgia melódica ...

Highlights: Camden Crawl Dublin takes over most venues (Nialler9 night on Friday in The Grand Social), Lunice, Keep Shelly In Athens, the Trap Door Rapp Tour with Edan, Mr. Lif  and more; Amon Tobin, The Horrors. This is the weekly list … Read More... →

Highlights: Bodytonic’s Beatyard Weekender, SBTRKT, Solar Bears with Letherette and SertOne, Yacht, Alabama Shakes, Matthew Dear, Kuedo, James Pants, Lapalux, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis; Last Days of 1984,  Cian Nugent… This is the weekly list of recommended gigs taking place … Read More... →

On Friday, Irish music critic extraordinaire Niall Byrne aka Nialler 9 wrote a fantastic post called “Five reasons why Irish trad has been reinvigorated in 2012“. It’s the kind of piece that made Nialler9 so popular in the first place, and it’s wonderful to see him taking the time to [...]

Highlights: Nu-Mark, Ane Brun, Dry The River, Magnetic Fields, Popicalia, Joinery Fundraiser,  Mossy Nolan, Wolf & Lamb / Soul Clap, TrócaireLive, Bombay Bicycle Club. This is the weekly list of recommended gigs taking place over the next seven days in Dublin … Read More... →

Nialler9 and State.ie are streaming the Record Store Gay compilation and the new album from Drunken Boat.

Highlights: THEEsatisfaction (pictured) , Ryan Adams, Record Store Day gigs, Ships, Miyagi">Fujiya & Miyagi, Trinity Ball, Katie Kim, Seamus Fogarty, Werk & more. This is the weekly list of recommended gigs taking place over the next seven days in Dublin published every Tuesday. … Read More... →

When critics say that "this is the band that will be on everyone's lips," this really means that you have a short amount of time before this band are everywhere and unavoidable. Zambri are that band with their dark-yet-cheery debut album, House Of Baasa . Notable Irish music blogger, Nialler9, pointed out that their song, 'Hundred Hearts', sounds like Berlin's 'Take My Breath Away' and I'm relieved that I wasn't the only one reminded of the glorious power ballads of the 80s. Traces of Roxette, Kate Bush, Tears For Fears and Simple Minds trickle throughout this album ...

Listen to 35 new tracks from around the world, as chosen by the Guardian and other bloggers in the Music Alliance Pact Click the play button to listen to individual songs, right click on the song title to download an MP3, or grab a zip file of the whole 35-track compilation through Ge.tt here . ARGENTINA : Zonaindie Diosque - Melancolía Del Futuro Diosque is a singer-songwriter born in Tucumán. Melancolía Del Futuro is our favorite song from his brand new album, Bote, in which Diosque enjoys playing with samplers and acoustic instruments like guitars and percussion. It was released by QQ ...

Highlights: Honningbarna, Andrew WK, Sea Of Bees, Tinariwen, Not Squares, Elaine Mai, Melodica Deathship, Alphabet Set 10th anniversary and We Cut Corners. This is the weekly list of recommended gigs taking place over the next seven days in Dublin published … Read More... →