Bar Tape – Dublin, Leinster, Ireland Today, I am excited to be involved with the video premiere of Bar Tape and ‘Take Heed x St. Peter’s College Drop-Out’ ahead of the Dublin four-piece unleashing their latest salvo of organic, writhing and raucously gritty melodic Punk. If you’ve not crossed paths…
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Auld Blue Eyes – Cork, Ireland Born from a history traversing comparatively more frantic, violent soundscapes, we have Auld Blue Eyes and The Early Years. A project owned, operated, fronted and arranged by one Ian O’Callaghan of Cork, Ireland, with the help of some fellow noise-makers, aims to take the…
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Brain Donation – Dublin, Ireland Now, how do I go about introducing Brain Donation? Well, isn’t that the question! I shall endeavour to do the best I can to do so on this lunch break of mine but I’ll apologise now for the likely tedium inducing prose I am about…
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Strangers With Guns – Dublin, Ireland Enveloped in a viscous and foreboding sentient groove, Strangers With Guns and Disenfranchised Fetus enter 2020. The Dublin band embody much that is rare in the contemporary music scene, or rather more so that it was. The mighty, abrasive, sonically aggravating three-piece Alternative Rock band.…
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Parhelia – Dublin, Ireland Post-Rock and Post-Metal. These genres are enjoyable to write about, but not the easiest. Parhelia and Celestial Horizons are the latest band and release that I am to tackle within the sonically expansive tapestry that is this wing of progressive guitar music. I shan’t waste any time…
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Turfboy – Dublin, Ireland Grunge. The “its been done” genre. One that has begrudgingly limped along parallel to its own fuzz staring up at the big names. Turfboy and At Tension find themselves in this camp and very much, like all underground bands in this vein, exist to dispel this…
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FLAGPOLERS/Bar Tape – Dublin/Vancouver, Ireland/Canada Music is ubiquitous. Is that an excuse unto why I missed the FLAGPOLERS/Bar Tape and their split EP the first time around? Perhaps, but it’s still a true-enough statement nonetheless. Bandcamp is a wonderful place of discovery and split releases a staple in the Punk…
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