LCD Soundsystem “Sound of Silver”

LCD Soundsystem, just not like your average dance band, are they?

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Buck 65

Coming in October!

En-raptured

Headlining the exclusive Irish launch of the brand new Coca-Cola and iTunes music partnership, the Rapture with support from Mullingar’s the Blizzards played to an enthralled crowd at the Village. Read more

Making music child’s play

Editor Brendan McGuirk takes a look at experimental electronic duo, Psapp. Read more

Mylo: Superstar DJ

Scottish DJ Mylo is all but living up to his ambition to destroy rock and roll if his recent Dublin date is anything to go by. Read more

The Meteor Irish Music Awards

The Meteor Awards hosted by Podge and Rodge was a colourful night to say the least as the crème de la crème of Irish A and B list celebrities gathered together to pay homage to the finest in today’s music industry. Read more

Simple Ambitions

‘That was the tea arriving’, he says, leaning into my microphone, pours us both a cuppa in the Village’s downstairs bar.
‘Got to keep it civilised, you know?’

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X-Ray Vision

Picture the scene, it’s 1978 at the Hope and Anchor, the filthy North London venue, where a year before the Stranglers had laid down their legendary bootleg. Johnny Rubbish, a twenty something, looking thirty something, try hard in a custom leather jacket, is spitting introductions like a bad vaudeville routine. A tubby kid mounts the stage. She wears a garish trouser suit and braces, and her curly hair is slammed down under a black trilby. The crowd heckles, and in a dirty East End accent, she tell them “Shut ya’ mouth”, and yells out, “Art-I-ficial!”.

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