Today’s Cork Independent has the full skinny – Jim and Albert are to bring back Cork’s much missed independent record store by the end of August, sharing the old ESB Substation on Caroline Street with Triskel Arts while the Tobin St Centre is renovated. Plugd will then move to a dedicated floor in the Arts [...]

Canuck Warren Hildebrand is a 20-year-old ‘bedroom producer’ who has clearly been having a healthy Atlas Sound diet – which is no bad thing. Lo-fi synths and fuzzy vocals rule throughout this massaging work, with occasional upbeat/mellow kicks on tunes like ‘Jimi Bleachball.’ Under the alias ‘Foxes in Fiction,’ Hildebrand had been releasing material on [...]

Phil Selway’s debut solo album Familal is out this August and the Radiohead drummer will showcase his new material with a European tour that kicks off at this year’s Electric Picnic. The first track By Some Miracle is now available for download from his site here.