It doesn’t feel right talking about John Carpenter the director without mentioning John Carpenter the composer. One of the most indicative things about his movies are the strength of the scores. Admittedly, some can be a little heavy on the guitar solos, but all of them are undeniably original, haunting and most of all memorable. [...]
There are few bands that hold their hometowns close to their hearts. Down are such a band. Almost synonymous with New Orleans for two decades, they have come to represent the musical force of the city with vehemence and power. An assimilation of members of Corrosion of Conformity, EyeHateGod, Crowbar and of course Pantera, they [...]
It was with great joy that I stumbled upon a ‘new’ video by Rainer Hass (Pure Hate) via the Gravewax Records Youtube channel. Gravewax is the home of some of my favourite artists, such as The Route 66 Killers and Sons of Perdition. Details of Hass’ story are sketchy but his biography reads something like [...]
I thought that this was an actual movie and I was so happy. Then I discovered that it was just an ‘homage’ to 1960′s surf movies by the Team Unicorn girls. BOO! Make the movie! You know you should. Regardless, it’s a fun few minutes and well worth a bop to.
B Dolan, Dan le Sac and Buddy Peace drifted into town last night. I hadn’t seen the latter before this but Dolan has played previously with Le Sac on last year’s tour with Scroobius Pip. The setup for this appearance was somewhat different though, with both Le sac and Peace doing solo sets before the [...]
Henry Rollins just turned 50. This is something he references frequently throughout his spoken word set in the Black Box in Galway which ended just over an hour ago. There are, however, no evident signs of him slowing down, which is something that is a benefit to us all. Over two hours of frantic, entertaining, [...]
Scroobius Pip is becoming a somewhat regular visitor to Galway throughout the last few years. From the early appearances with Dan Le Sac in De Burgos, to their most recent shows in Kellys and The Roisin Dubh. This is, however, the first time that Pip has wrapped up his belongings in a handkerchief on a [...]
Slipknot / Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor has realeased a Xmas song. It sounds like it landed somewhere right in the middle of a Hank III track and ‘Grandma got run over by a reindeer’. I just never imagined that this would ever be something that my brain would have to process, so I am [...]
Cult Of Luna’s epic 2008 album ‘Eternal Kingdom’ is one of the most compelling and fascinating concept albums of recent times (with the grand exception of Fall Of Efrafa’s peerless Watership Down trilogy). When the band were scouting for rehearsal space in the run up to recording, they chanced upon the site of a demolished [...]
Sick Tonightdan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip | MySpace Music Videos Wow. As Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip draw to the end of their European tour (promoting new album Logic Of Chance and Scroobius Pip’s new book ‘Poetry In (e)Motion) They present to us, like benevolent viral video gods, a new promo for album [...]