With just 6 days to go, we’ve been scouring all sorts of sites, twitter feeds and blogs in trying to attain ourselves some form of Electric Picnic tickets, as like most people we’ve been feeling the pinch of late. There’s loads of giveaways on the go at the moment, so we’ve decided to share our [...]

Those fine folks at AU have the scoop on this mouth-watering tour, the third in the Shred Yr Face series to come to Ireland. This time ’round it’s more of a folky bill, with Greg Weeks’ Espers headlining over The Cave Singers and Woods.

One of our favourite albums of 2008 was Chad VanGaalen’s Soft Airplane; a collection of “heartfelt songs and lo-fi tinkering” which hasn’t been too far from our record player over the last 12 or so months. VanGaalen has made quite a name for himself as a songwriter, producer and animator – and now he’s dabbling [...]