Prepare for some bowel-shaking sub bass frequencies as dubstep pioneer Mala returns to Dublin to take over Crawdaddy on Friday, November 20. The Digital Mystikz and DMZ label founder will be joined by his main MC Sgt Pokes for some twisted dubbed out beats and off-the-wall rhymes.
Support is courtesy of Safetyboy who’s part of…

After their Academy gig last month, an Oxegen show and a double headliner with Passion Pit at Whelan’s in March, US new wave revivalists Hockey continue their live Irish onslaught with a return to Dublin’s Academy on February 28 next year. The band’s debut album Mind Chaos… is out now, and its blend of infectious

Signalling the arrival of your new album using an online day-hour-minute-second rolling countdown is a bit conceited, but we can forgive Vitalic. Flashmob… is another genre-defying record from the French electro trendsetter, and the chattering dance classes have been drooling in anticipation. Vitalic aka Pascal Arbez doesn’t do quantity, but at least he’s got ruthless

Happy Arthur’s Day – perhaps the greatest Irish marketing campaign of all time by the multinational owners of Guinness. Thousands of online campaigners have even signed a petition to turn September 24 into a national holiday, a Paddy’s Day II. Cynicism aside, Guinness have lined up an impressive range of acts for intimate gigs around…

State caught up with the eminent Mixmaster Morris ahead of his appearance at the Psychonavigation Records 9th birthday on Thursday night (we’ve got tickets to giveaway too) where he discusses The Big Chill, John Peel, Chill-out as a genre in 2009 and yes, that Coldcut remix.
State has two pairs of tickets to give away…

Amid all the customary bickering about this year’s Mercury Prize nominees, bloggers had their knickers in a twist over Kasabian gatecrashing the so-called cool list but fewer bemoaned Toddla T’s exclusion. The 24-year-old Sheffield whizzkid’s debut album Skanky Skanky… seemed to be a shoo-in on the token -urban’ ticket, an achingly cool mash-up of grime,

Legion of Two is the latest project from Decal producer Alan O’Boyle and drummer David Lacey, who have just cranked out Riffs, already a contender for the best Irish album of the year, or anywhere else for that matter. It’s a mass of twisted electronics, dense soundscapes and pounding drums that sounds like it was…

Here’s one record you can judge by its cover. The colossal sound on Legion of Two’s debut album Riffs… is so ‘industrial’ you can almost trace the cables from those spindly pylons back to the turbine room of some imposing power plant. It sounds like metal, but it’s no head-banging power chord onslaught – rather

After helping to rewire popular culture in the late 1980s with their symphonic take on techno, Orbital seem to be edging into -heritage act’ territory, with this third best-of compilation and a reunion tour that hits Electric Picnic in September.
Five years after their tear-jerking -last shows’, Paul and Phil Hartnoll have recharged the batteries…

People expecting one of those cliched ‘intimate’ gigs get more intimacy than they bargained for at Whelan’s as !!! (Chk Chk Chk) frontman Nic Offer drags his hip-shaking sweaty self into the moshpit like a rabid Tony Manero. And on a school night too – he’s got the Wednesday Night Fever all right. “It’s not…