[City of Arabia image from Dark Roasted Blend] Blogs are dropping like flies lately – pay your respects to UnaRocks and The Chancer. Latest odds on The Choice Music Prize (via paddypower.ie): Jape – Ritual 9 – 4, Lisa Hannigan – Sea Sew 7 – 1, Oppenheimer – Take The Whole Mid-Range And Boost It [...]

Bestival, the three day festival held in September on the Isle of Wight has announced its line up for this year’s event. An article on the BBC last year suggested a link up between Bestival and a series of other events such as Electric Picnic. While at this moment it is purely speculative, the net [...]

“No Line on the Horizon” The b-side to Boots, this is the better song of the two and a decent album opener with Bono screaming against a droning wall of sound, and an undercurrent of 50′s sci-fiesque whistling guitar. A great marriage of sound and lyrics as the soundscape opens up with a crash of [...]