Muted, coiling and graceful, Burrowings is the debut album by folk-abstractionist Deaf Joe. A combination of acoustics, waltzing blues and ambient stretches, the album is both hypnagogic while rooted in familiar terrain and it is streaming below for your listening pleasure.
Deaf Joe will release Burrowings… on The Delphi Label, this Friday, February 17th. He

Electronic experimentalist Alec Koone, better known as Balam Acab, will play Twisted Pepper in Dublin on Saturday, February 11th – details below.
Playing live, Koone will be dropping eerie jams from is debut record Wander/Wonder… and hopefully some remixes too.
We have a pair of passes to giveaway, mail us on giveaway@state.ie with your contact

For the latest presentation by 12Sundays, Brooklyn synth-ravers Blondes will play their first ever Irish show in The Bernard Shaw, Dublin on Sunday, February 12th.
The duo released their debut album Wine… just last week, opening with the throbbing ‘Lover’ and ‘Hater’ singles, on RVNG Intl – full stream below.
12Sundays presents
BLONDES (Rvng Intl,

Up, down. In, out. A trial by Twitter can see a career soar, crash, then burn before a single is released or live show played; a rising star can burn white hot only to be quenched without becoming a household name. The ascent of Azealia Banks would appear to be on such a trajectory –…

As premiered over on DIY, Sinéad O’Connor recruited London band / multi-media crew Breton, or BretonLABS, to create the video to her latest single,’The Wolf is Getting Married’ – the result is an unraveling, lacy affair. The song itself is both delicate and strong, reminiscent of The Lion and the Cobra… days.
Taking to Facebook,

As it stands, Guns N’ Roses are Axl Rose (of course), Frank Ferrer, Tommy Stinson, Richard Fortus, Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, Dizzy Reed, Chris Pitman and Dj Ashba.
The band played a sold out show in Dublin’s O2 last year and it ended it disarray, so they are back for another round on Thursday, the 17th…

Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells album Everything’s Getting Older… is a pairing of two Scottish greats, a multi-instrumentalist composer (Wells) and a heavy accented poet (Moffat).
The duo will play The Grand Social in Dublin on Friday, 30th of March. Ticket are priced at €18 (including booking fee) available from Tickets.ie and Ticketmaster.

Following on from a splendid year of live shows, a spectacular album and a Meteor Choice Music Prize nomination, State favourites Tieranniesaur have announced a headline show in Whelan’s, Dublin on Friday the 9th of March – the day after the Choice Awards!
Support on the night comes from Last Days of 1984.
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In a surprise announcement, Factory Floor will play the Banquet club night at Dublin’s Tripod on Saturday the 4th of February.
The synth-noir post-industrialists are renowned for their live performance but this will be their debut Irish show – a support slot for Mogwai and Electric Picnic appearance fell through last year. It’s also rumoured…

Irish folk linchpins The Chieftains will celebrate their 50th anniversary with a new studio album and world tour, culminating in a special St. Patrick’s Day show at New York’s Carnegie Hall. The band will play Dublin’s Grand Canal Theatre on May 29th.
The album, produced by T-Bone Burnett, is entitled Voice of Ages…, and

Once Upon A Time Back In The West is a series of gigs happening in Galway kickstarting the live scene for the year.
The gigs are in association with Heineken Music and will run from January 26th to 29th in the clubs and venues in the West End are of the city; namely, Róisín Dubh,…

Ryan Adams has announced two intimate acoustic shows in Dublin and Belfast in April of this year.
Adams will play fully seated solo shows in Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on Thursday April, 19th and The Waterfront Hall, Belfast the following night.
TICKET INFORMATION…
Thursday 19 April: Olympia Theatre, Dublin
Tickets priced from €44.05 inclusive of booking

The Cast of Cheers have announced that they will tour the UK in February and March, co-headlining with up and coming new wave pop band Theme Park.
The jaunt kicks off in Glasgow and ends in Kingston, no Irish dates have been announced – full dates are below.
If you haven’t heard Theme Park, this…

Limerick producer Ronan Carroll makes brooding electronica under the moniker of Tenaka. Collaborating with Sacred Animals, Holy Roman Army, Sorcha Brennan, Daithi and Elaine Mai, his Ephemeral EP is an introspective collection of metronomic arrangements and live instrumentation with casting scope and ambition whetting our appetites for Tenaka’s debut full length album in 2012.
How …