Local Natives
This week saw the release of the eagerly awaited second album from Local Natives. Following on from the success of the self-funded Gorilla Manor, this indie offering is the first…
Greenday- Dos
Transition Year intern James Kelly reviews Green Day’s latest offering,’Dos’. Greenday are back with their 2nd album in a trilogy, “Dos”. The Bass guitarist “Mike Dirnt” says that he hasn’t…
Someone Great is Gone
LCD Soundsystem are a once in a lifetime band. They are important and timeless in the same way that other pioneering bands become irrevocably associated with a time period, a…
The Siren’s definitive guide to… Stalking
Do you spend your nights in a garden, longingly looking up at a lit window, or steal clothes from washing lines? If so, this may just be the soundtrack to…
The Rolling Stones- GRRR!
????? The Rolling Stones are back with their greatest hits compilation album GRRR!. The album is out to celebrate fifty years of being general rock gods. Is it a case…
Lana Del Rey- Paradise EP
? ? ??? Lana Del Rey is back with a mixed bag of moodiness and sexiness in the form of Paradise, physician the EP to follow her hit and miss…
ExitMusic – Whelan’s November 10th 2012
Nobody was prepared for what happened in Whelan’s last weekend. Hushed voices and murmured conversations were cut short by the sounds of “The Sea”, the opening track of ExitMusic’s set…
Triangles Are My Favourite Shape
Kathryn Toolan takes a look at Mercury Prize 2012 winners Alt-J, their winning album and what this means for the band's future On Thursday evening Lauren Laverne gave Alt-J some…
Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra – THEATRE IS EVIL
(8 Ft. Records, 2012) It’s rare anyone these days refers to a group of distinctly rock-flavoured songs as a “great pop record”, let alone such a group released by a…
Taylor Swift – Red
Red is topping both the UK and US charts. Released on October 22nd it is Swift’s fourth studio album, following the success of Speak Now in 2010. Whether you are…
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
In the run up to the American Presidential Election, Ciaran Breslin looks at the increasingly nuanced role of music in politics In the wake of Bruce Springsteen recently releasing a…