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In Photos: Sons & Daughters + Peggy Sue + Bonfire Nights @ The Ruby Lounge, Manchester (23.10.11)

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In Photos: Sons & Daughters + Peggy Sue + Bonfire Nights @ The Ruby Lounge, Manchester (23.10.11)

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Caught Live: WHY? (Acoustic Piano show) + Serengeti @ The Button Factory, Dublin (22.10.11)

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Caught Live: WHY? (Acoustic Piano show) + Serengeti @ The Button Factory, Dublin (22.10.11)

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In Photos: Ragged Words @ Elastic Witch, Dublin

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In Photos: Ragged Words @ Elastic Witch, Dublin

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Interview: Big Deal - "Any fool can make something complicated..."

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Interview: Big Deal - "Any fool can make something complicated..."

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Caught Live: All Tomorrow's Parties Presents... I'll Be Your Mirror USA, Curated by Portishead & ATP @ Asbury Park, NJ

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Caught Live: All Tomorrow's Parties Presents... I'll Be Your Mirror USA, Curated by Portishead & ATP @ Asbury Park, NJ

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Caught Live: Other Lives + Gypsies on The Autobahn @ The Academy 2, Dublin (23.10.11)

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Caught Live: Other Lives + Gypsies on The Autobahn @ The Academy 2, Dublin (23.10.11)

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In Photos: Cut Copy + Le Galaxie @ The Button Factory, Dublin (25.10.11)

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In Photos: Cut Copy + Le Galaxie @ The Button Factory, Dublin (25.10.11)

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In Photos: little xs for eyes (Album Launch show) + The SeaSharps + Water Cycle @ The Sugar Club, Dublin (26.10.11)

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In Photos: little xs for eyes (Album Launch show) + The SeaSharps + Water Cycle @ The Sugar Club, Dublin (26.10.11)

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In Photos: David Kitt Performs The Big Romance + Sunken Foal @ Vicar Street, Dublin (09.12.11) photogallery on Ragged Words

It just about snuck into our Top 100 Albums of The 2000s list a couple of years back, and last month...

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In Photos: The Leisure Society (feat. The Heritage Orchestra) + Loney, Dear @ The Barbican, London (08.12.11) photogallery on Ragged Words

A special show in a special setting brought Londoners to the heart of The City last week. Folk-rock seven-piece...

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In Photos: Heineken Green Spheres Presents... The Drums + Cloud Control @ The Village, Dublin (01.12.11) photogallery on Ragged Words

The latest round of free Heineken Green Spheres gigs brought a host of acts to venues across Dublin at the start of the month. Kicking...

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In Photos: Lucky Thirteen (13 Years of Memphis Industries) - The Go! Team + Field Music + Dutch Uncles + Colourmusic @ KOKO, London (30.11.11) photogallery on Ragged Words

Stellar indie imprint Memphis Industries officially became an awkward teenager this year, and celebrated this fact recently with a midweek blowout...

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Caught Live: Little Dragon @ The Button Factory, Dublin

Just over a year ago, Little Dragon performed at Dublin's Crawdaddy to an audience of not much more than a dozen punters. This evening, by contrast,...

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In Photos: Little Dragon + White Hinterland @ The Button Factory, Dublin (29.11.11) photogallery on Ragged Words

It's been a bumper 2011 for Gothenburg's Little Dragon, with their third album of sophisticated synthpop, July's ...

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In Photos: Ragged Words @ Elastic Witch, Dublin photogallery on Ragged Words

As many of you will already know, there's a brand new fixture on Dublin's sadly...

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Caught Live: WHY? (Acoustic Piano show) + Serengeti @ The Button Factory, Dublin

Reasons to be cheerful: it’s Saturday night, we’re in out of the rain at a seated show, and we're about to be served two prime...

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Caught Live: Other Lives + Gypsies on The Autobahn @ The Academy 2, Dublin (23.10.11) photogallery on Ragged Words

Talk about a square peg in a round hole... One of the most...

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In Photos: Cut Copy + Le Galaxie @ The Button Factory, Dublin (25.10.11) photogallery on Ragged Words

Aussie electropop merchants Cut Copy pretty much have the euphoric dance anthem thing...

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In Photos: Sons & Daughters + Peggy Sue + Bonfire Nights @ The Ruby Lounge, Manchester (23.10.11) photogallery on Ragged Words

Glaswegian blues punks Sons & Daughters brought their eminently danceable live show to Manchester's Ruby Lounge the other week, showcasing...

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Caught Live: All Tomorrow's Parties Presents... I'll Be Your Mirror USA, Curated by Portishead & ATP (Day One) @ Asbury Park, NJ

So, ATP America scoots away from The Catskills to the infinitely more Rock'n'Roll (TM) surroundings of Asbury Park, New Jersey...

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Caught Live: All Tomorrow's Parties Presents... I'll Be Your Mirror USA, Curated by Portishead & ATP (Day Two) @ Asbury Park, NJ

On Saturday afternoon Geoff Barrow’s 'other' band BEAK> are, frankly, tremendous back at The Convention Hall. The...

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Video: The Cast of Cheers - 'Family'

 

"My head, my heart, my heart, the flooor / My Eyes keep movin' ever closer to the door..."

 

Having endured the dubious rite of passage of hearing hyperbole's Zane Lowe practically wet himself (twice) live on air in response to their new song, The Cast of Cheers have now...

 

25 Jan 2012
Win Halves Tickets & A Limited-Edition Screen Print Hand-Numbered by The Band!

Even the grinchiest of grinches would have to admit that, with Christmas now fast approaching, there's an unmistakeably festive buzz in the air. And while we're not sure whether Dublin multi-instrumentalists...

 

7 Dec 2011
Win Tickets to Tonight's Clock Opera Show in Dublin!

Having tipped them for success back at the start of the year, we'd be lying if we said we weren't a tad disappointed that 2011 has failed to yield a debut album from Clock Opera. That hotly-anticipated LP is now due for release "some time early in the new year", we're told - fingers crossed it'll prove worth the wait when it...

2 Dec 2011
Listen: The Gorgeous Colours - 'Chopped Heart' (Exclusive), Plus Win Tickets to The Single Launch Gig This Friday

Symphonic pop five-piece The Gorgeous Colours will be launching their new single 'Chopped Heart' with a gig at Dublin's Grand Social tomorrow night (November 11), and we've got the exclusive first play of the track for your listening pleasure below. What's more, we've also got a pair of tickets to the launch show up for grabs, so listen up if you want to get your name in the hat.

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10 Nov 2011