jOG isn’t a game, but it can enhance the way you play games, and help your fitness into the bargain. Essentially, it’s a motion-sensitive controller that enables the player to control on-screen characters through their own body movements: if you run (on the spot, of course), your character runs too. The jOG controller detects…

Three of Ireland’s indie legends are appearing Upstairs in Whelan’s next Friday, June 19. Martin Egan, former Power Of Dreams frontman Craig Walker (pictured), and Fearghal McKee, legendary frontman with Whipping Boy with his new Line-up (SSS), share a triple bill.
Egan, whose songs have been recorded by Christy Moore, Hothouse Flowers, will be…

Editors have announced a three-date Irish tour later this October in support of their as-yet-untitled third album, due for release later this year. The band will play St George’s Market, Belfast, on Wednesday, October 7, the Olympia Theatre in Dublin on Thursday, October 8, and Dolan’s, Limerick, on Friday, October 9.
Tickets for all…

Almost three years after their debut (“we prefer to say two and a half”), Director are back with a new album, I’ll Wait For Sound, rejuvenated, refreshed and ready to reconnect with their fanbase.
“We spent a long time trying to get a release in the UK. At the end of it all, we…

Gregory And The Hawk make their Irish debut in The Infirmary (Mardyke Complex), Cork, on June 21, with a gig Upstairs at Whelan’s on June 22. Support comes from Jean Elliot Senior (Crëvecoeur).
Made up of native New Yorker Meredith Godreau, on guitar and vocals, alongside upright bass-player Mike McGuire, Gregory And The Hawk…

Legendary rock band Alice In Chains have signed an exclusive worldwide deal with EMI’s Virgin Records and are gearing up for the release of their first new studio album in more than 10 years. The band and producer Nick Raskulinecz (Rush, Foo Fighters) began recording last October at Studio 606 in Northridge, CA and…

Set in 1864, before the events of the original Call Of Juarez, Bound In Blood is another Western-themed shooter, following the fortunes of the McCall brothers, during and after the American Civil War. Playing as both Thomas and Ray (who ends up as the pistol-wielding preacher of the original game), two Confederate soldiers who…

Movies about movie-making tend to be either hilariously vitriolic (The Player) or poignant (Lost In La Mancha): unfortunately, The State Of Things is neither. Wim Wenders’ re-released 1982 film follows the fortunes of maverick German film director Friedrich Munro (Patrick Bauchau), as he travels from Portugal to LA in search of his missing producer,…

The second part of acclaimed French director Jean-Claude Brisseau’s trilogy exploring society’s taboos, The Exterminating Angels is all based around sex and sexual fantasy. Ostensibly an examination of women’s innermost desires, it nonetheless plays out like your average male’s wet dream, involving graphic all-female threesomes and two women mutually masturbating each other at a…

Based on Stefan Aust’s book of the same name, The Baader Meinhof Complex tells the true story of the Red Army Faction (RAF), an ultra-violent terrorist organisation dedicated to the overthrow of what they perceived as the rise of fascism in the 1970s, including US imperialism in Vietnam and the growth of a police…

Check out Julie Feeney’s snazzy new video for ‘Love is a Tricky Thing’, the first single from her new album, Pages. Pages releases on Julie’s own Mittens label in Ireland on Friday, June 5.
Julie plays Dublin’s Crawdaddy, on Wednesday June 10, and also has some record store visits lined up around the album’s…

Here’s a cracking new video from Irish electro pop duo Caterpillar Jones for their song ‘Complicated’. It’s a nice send-up of the reality ‘talent’ shows currently infesting our television screens from all corners of the globe. Ireland’s got talent, indeed.

Caterpillar Jones TV on MUZU.

Radio Ireland is a brand new online independent radio station which exclusively plays Irish unsigned acts.
“We arent interested in making money,” explains Radio Ireland’s Cris Rorschach. “We just want to support unsigned talent that does’nt get a chance in a very restricted and clicky irish music scene.”
According to Rorschach, Radio Ireland was…

See the cracking new video from Irish electro pop duo Caterpillar Jones.