The Baltimore kindergarten noiseniks are back with a shiny new video for their flagship tune Celebrate The Body Electric (It Came From An Angel). Ponytail are very much a ‘love it or hate it’ type of band; nonsense lyrics, bouncy guitar sections and spazzy song structures aren’t for everyone – but if they are for [...]

It’s been awhile since our last playlist, so here’s another collection of great music that’s either just been released, leaked, found and loved by our good selves. Personal highlights include new music from David Kitt, Vetiver, The Horrors and a great opener from Australia’s The Parking Lot Experiments – I stumbled across their Myspace last [...]

Awesome photoshop by quackster on Thumped Think the G20 riots were bad? Check Jim Carroll’s discussion on The Ticket’s 50 best Irish music acts right now. Somewhat surprising omissions include Adebisi Shank and Gemma Hayes. Others we’d have tipped our caps to include Ian Whitty and The Exchange and Armoured Bear, both of whom play [...]