Fair play to the MN collective for thinking way outside the box this weekend. The Dublin-based dance promoters have secured Detroit maestro Mike Huckaby for two nights — including a special one-off set to mark the birthday of the late great jazz futurist Sun Ra, who would’ve been 97 this year.
As part of MN’s…

It’s been 30 years since Talking Heads members Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz set up Tom Tom Club, and the husband and wife team are dusting off new wave classics like Wordy Rappinghood and Genius of Love for a world tour that’s stopping in Dublin.
Tom Tom Club’s full live show hits Vicar St on…

You wait around for an Edan gig and three come along at once – on a bank holiday weekend no less. OK so it’s not that long since his show at last year’s Picnic, but Irish hip-hop heads are still raving about his shows in Crawdaddy in 2006 and the Tivoli in 2008.
The Maryland…

So it’s Easter Sunday and you’ve just wolfed down a giant Aero egg and a bin bag full of Maltesers. Don’t just flop down on the sofa and wait for the Simpsons when there’s 10 hours of techno for the taking.
Brand new Dublin electronic collective We Are Electronic launches this Sunday in Dublin’s Grand…

Raekwon couldn’t have picked a better time to bring the Wu-Tang Ruckus. It’s the night before Paddy’s Day, everyone’s on a booze blitz and scowly empty-handed touts are outside the Button Factory trying to score tickets. The place is hopping with anticipation – it’s billed as a run-through of Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…,

OK, it’s pissing rain in Dublin and you’re not on your way to the Bloc Weekend. Instead of moping about the house, get down to the Academy tonight to see Ricardo Villalobos – the one DJ Bloc didn’t manage to nab. Expect anything from minimal techno to marching drums and obscure vocal house gems.
Heads…

Armed with slabs of vinyl, an 808 and “beats that go (((BOOM))) (((BOOM))) (((BOOM)))”, electro pioneer Egyptian Lover lands in Dublin this Friday for a rare live show. He’ll be joined at the Grand Social (formerly Pravda) by his accomplice MC Jamie Jupiter for some Computer Power.
After nearly three decades of fusing Kraftwerk-style melodies,…

According to a Twitter announcement from promoters Choice Cuts, Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon ‘The Chef’ is set to cook up a storm by performing his album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx in Dublin. The gig is said to be on March 16 at the Button Factory, so it should kick Paddy’s Day off with one…

Bobby Farrell of Boney M is heading to the great glitterball in the sky after being found dead in his St Petersburg hotel room, aged 61. Farrell was the only male member of the iconic 1970s disco group.
In a turn of events that’ll get conspiracy theorists working overtime, Farrell died on the same date…

The sweat’s dripping off the Tripod walls but MC Djum Djum is bringing Big Freeze chic indoors – bouncing around the stage in a puffy parka jacket. It’s a half an hour in and his frantic African scat singing is whipping the crowd into a frenzy while the frazzled marimba samples on ‘Afro-Left’ take us…

It’s up there with CBGB’s, the Hacienda and Studio 54 as an iconic music venue, and now Paul McCartney has given the thumbs-up to a gig in London’s 100 Club this Friday, December 17.
It’s the Beatles icon’s smallest gig in over a decade — only 300 fans will get tickets for the lunchtime gig…

November has once more been re-dubbed Movember, in tribute to brave men of Ireland who have spent the month cultivating – often ridiculous – facial hair in order to raise funds for the treatment of prostate cancer. In celebration, we bring you the top ten ‘taches in musical history:
1. Nick Cave
First the No…

“We have truly embraced the darkness and the chaos of the seas,” hails MC Exile Eye halfway through Melodica Deathship’s voyage into deepest, darkest hip-hop waters. It’s fair to say the Dublin-based crew are in uncharted territories – this has to be the only nautical-themed hip-hop record out there, sailing along like a phantom ship…

Shuffling on stage in a manky checked dressing gown, fluffy slippers, straggly hair and three-day stubble, Chilly Gonzales has that spaced-out aura of a man who’s just rolled out of bed to watch Jeremy Kyle for the day. But then he silently takes the stool at the grand piano and lets his fingers to the…