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I must admit, it was harder than I thought trying to find ten albums that I really liked in the past decade. There was a period of four or five years in the late 90s when there seemed to be a... Artist page: Field Music
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That was tough... Artist page: Field Music
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Almost out of time at the internet cafe! Here! Artist page: Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
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Really difficult to decide, but fun to do... Artist page: The Leisure Society
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I found this really hard as it seems most of my favourite records were made in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s... Ho Hum - these are, probably, my top ten for the noughties with some rambling... Artist page: The Leisure Society
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We decided to compile a list of our favorite records rather than a list of the bests... These are records that had a huge impact on our lives and we still listen to pretty regularly. Artist page: Nurses
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With the sun beating down on Dublin for much of the past week, it's almost as if the weather gods are already gearing up for this summer's fast-approaching festival season. Or maybe we're just going to get (another) one of those weird 'Indian summers in reverse', where March, April and May are nicer than they should be and then it pisses rain for the next three months solid. Who knows? But I digress...
Ragged Words was out to lunch washing its hair...
We remember being quite taken late last summer with Reptar's Ben Allen-produced debut EP, Oblangle Fizz Y'all, on which the Athens, GA quartet lived up to their cartoonish moniker with a bouncy collection of psychedelic pop jams. Giddy group chants, tumbling world-music grooves and exclamatory blasts of synth made for an upbeat, fun listen - crucially, the band members all sounded like they were...
"Can't see the wind but I see the trees sway..."
We hadn't even heard of Willis Earl Beal before the start of the year. Since then, the jack-of-all-trades Chicago native has had all the right people tweeting his praises. He's also been...
It's a fairly damp and dreary Monday here in Dublin, so we've been catching up with our good friends Vimeo and YouTube.
Below we've grouped together some of the more noteworthy music promos currently doing the rounds, along with relevant release info, tour details etc. for each vid. Enjoy our roundup, which features a mess hall knees-up, a 3-D seafaring adventure and a stroll through a deserted L.A. cityscape.
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