Taken from the world’s first orchestral rap album, The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales, ‘Party In My Mind’ is a bongo-centric bust rapping blast.
The video was directed by serial Chilly-collaborator Jonathon Barré and is as hilarious as the song itself with our protagonist banging the skins and busting rhymes (sorry).
The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales… drops

Update: Stage Times are here!…
Time to get planning, the Oxegen 2011 day and stage breakdown has been unveiled.
The Main Stage is typically heavy hitting as Black Eyed Peas, Foo Fighters and Coldplay headline Friday, Saturday and Sunday respectively, also boasting slots from My Chemical Romance, Arctic Monkeys and Beyoncé no less, with The

Biophilia… is the latest album from the perpetually experimental Bjork. The LP is the recorded accompaniment to her latest multi-media project in which she attempts to to answer: Where do music, nature and technology meet? Or more specifically “how sound works in nature, exploring the infinite expanse of the universe, from planetary systems to atomic

2009 marked the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. As part of the celebrations Hotel Pro Forma, a progressive theatre production company based in Denmark, commissioned Tomorrow, In A Year…, an opera based on Darwin’s life, work and theories, under the direction of Ralf Richardt

Guess what? There’s no longer need for the opposite sex. Honest. What’s more, and maybe even more monumental – sax is back. Though bold, both these statements are true. We’re talking modernist pop music here. Gender bending is common place now, by overtly playing the part or by disguising it – vocal transformation made easy…

Nick Cave and the rest of Grinderman bring their fuzzy-blues and hard rocking Grinderman 2… album to Dublin’s Vicar St this weekend.
We have three pairs of tickets for Sunday’s show in Vicar St, to win simply tell us who from Grinderman is Nick Cave’s film score buddy. Send your answer to giveaway@state.ie with your

Following an intermediate solo record from front man Alec Ounsworth, Brooklyn alt rockers and indie-internet leaders Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are back with their third studio LP, Hysterical…, set for release in September on V2 Records.
The lead track from the album is ‘Same Mistake’ and this early slice finds the band turning

Last week Morrissey recorded a session in the BBC studios last week where he performed three new songs. ‘Action Is My Middle Name’, ‘The Kid’s a Looker’ and ‘People Are The Same Everywhere’ were premiered on Janice Long‘s BBC Radio 2 program last night. The songs will feature on his 10th solo album which is…

Dinosaur Pile-Up are set to play a re-scheduled Dublin show at the Academy 2. The new date is this Friday, June 17th. All tickets for the original show remain valid. The band have also added a new date at The Half Moon Theatre Cork on June 18th.
Dinosaur Pile-Up are an alternative rock band hailing…

Nine Types Of Light: The Movie… was released in April as a visual accompaniment to the excellent new album from Brooklyn art-rockers TV On The Radio. The film is a mix of animation, cam-corder and higher-end film by various directors selected Tunde Adebimpe. Each director created a video for a song on the album, then

So here we have it, Justin Vernon gone all ornate. The eponymous Bon Iver follow up LP has taken a bold redirection from the acoustic and majestic melancholy of For Emma, Forever Ago…, instead opting for a more synthesized production quality and intricate arrangements – with even some 80s-influenced balladry – but don’t let

Between NPR and Hype Machine there’s a healthy supply of album streams these days. The latest to be hosted by Hypem is It’s All True…, the fourth studio album from Canadian synth-poppers Junior Boys.
The 9 minute album closer ‘Banana Ripple’ was released in early May, earning a spot as State’s single of the

He worked his magic on the Thurston Moore’s Demolished Thoughts album and now Mr. Beck Hansen is lending his hand to another guitar-legend, Stephen Malkmus.
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks are working on new album Mirror Traffic… with Beck at the production desk.
‘Senator’ is the lead single with the line “I know what the

So here we have a tale of three bands. College bands from the US (New Jersey to be precise) embarking on a trek across Europe together – Big Troubles, Ducktails and Julian Lynch. With varying levels of success, there’s none of them too affluent so they pitch in and help each other out. Three quarters…