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The Archives
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04.15.13Record Store Day: The Best of IrishSo, here's the thing. In trying to answer some questions about the modern music-buying community (are most of them online? how much do they spend? how can we get them to breed? etc. ), we've all been able to poke holes in the Record Store Day format. We've all seen the proof that one big, fat day of booming sales isn't enough to save the countless great record shops in Ireland and abroad from being forced out of existence. There's also been lots of talk about major label bogeymen and Ebay pre-sales over the last 12 months, giving RSD a ...
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01.04.1350 Irish Things I Liked In 2012You've probably had enough of End Of Year lists by now, so I'll spare you the ranking and measuring and categorising and commentating that usually comes with any form of musical reportage published at the end of a year. Instead, you'll find a simple collection of EPs, tracks, music videos, performances and remixes made partially, or completely by Irish hands that I doted on during 2012. My initial brainstorm yielded about 90 things, but after telling myself how ridiculous that list would be, I whittled it down to 50 based on how much I listened to said work over the past 12 months. ...
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04.18.12Record Store Day: The Best of IrishHere's something you probably already know; this Saturday, April 21 is Record Store Day. In the unlikely event that you have no idea what I'm talking about, here's what you need to know. 2012 marks the fourth annual international Record Store Day, a kind of Indie-focused pseudoholiday founded in 2007 by record store employee Chris Brown (not that one, silly) in celebration of all things round and shiny that play beautiful music. Since then, the third Saturday in April has bestowed us with exclusive vinyl and CD releases and once-off in-store performances in record stores all around the globe. It's also the only day ...
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12.06.11INCOMING: RGBeats{John Lennon's 'I'm Losing You' as interpreted by Kevin O'Brien} Falling somewhere between PostSecret and those sweet, sweet days when your Art teacher used to call in sick, RGBeats, as well as being a fabulously-named dot com, is a multimedia experiment that invites readers to combine their interest in art and music. Established this past September, the site features paintings created while listening exclusively to one song or album. "The concept came to me one lonely afternoon in Sligo," founder Karen Howley says. "My friend and I were discussing an idea we later termed 'analogue VJing'. We were on the beach, eating ice ...