Underworld have been announced as Music Directors for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games .
Underworld’s Rick Smith and Karl Hyde join artist director Danny Boyle for the event for a three-hour ceremony on July 27th. Both have worked together on music Boyle’s films in the past such as Trainspotting, A Life …

Drake will kick off his European tour in Dublin on Saturday March 24th in The O2. The Club Paradise Tour will then go on to the UK, mainland Europe, Scandinavia and back to English dates in April. Full dates below.
Drake will be promoting his recently released second album Take Care… (read State’s favourable review).

Radiohead release a double A-side single of ‘The Daily Mail’ and ‘Staircase’ on December 16th. The songs were recorded during the From The Basement… sessions which itself is released on DVD and Blu-ray on January 20th 2012 or can currently be bought through thekingoflimbs.com.
Radiohead have lined up US and European tour dates for 2012.

Back in September news reached us that St. Vincent had recorded a song for the soundtrack to the excellent Boardwalk Empire series.
At almost 90 seconds, ‘Make Believe’ is a lovely interlude that fits right into the 1920′s Atlantic City setting of the programme. It was used in the closing credits of episode 11 of…

A message posted on the Goldfrapp site leads us to some new info from the band. On February 3rd, they will release the 14-track The Singles …which features two new songs “new wave ballad” ‘Melancholy Sky’ and the “slow building synth-pop” of ‘Yellow Halo’ as well as previous singles from their last five albums.
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If you didn’t manage to get free tickets to Lisa Hannigan & James Vincent McMorrow in the Button Factory as part of the Meteor Choice Music Prize 2011 series of gigs tonight, don’t fret as State are streaming the gig plus a live Q+A via MUZU.TV below from 8pm.

The Meteor Choice Music Prize announces…

After their set at Other Voices in Dingle over the weekend, Jason Pierce has settled on a name for Spiritualized’s forthcoming seventh album – Sweet Heart Sweet Light… which is released on March 16th through Domino Records imprint Double Six.
“When you make a record, it has to be the single most important thing in

Please note: The date has been changed to June 11th.…
Legendary ska and Two Tone band The Specials will return to Ireland next year . They are lined up to play The Marquee in Cork on 11th June 2012 with a new version of the show they’ve been playing over the last two years.
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Fiery Irish punks Logikparty are set to release their debut album Oh Cult!… in March of next year, recorded in London with producer Alalal (Al O’Connell). First up, however, is a free single ‘Anti Omerta’ via The Richter Collective, a track that sees the band expand on the promise of their debut EP. Get it

After dropping the brilliant video for ‘Lonely Boy’ last month, Ohio’s Black Keys will release their new seventh album El Camino… this Friday. Check out five tracks from it below and pre-order the album here.

Harmonic present Will Oldham aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy at Vicar Street on 31st of January 2012 in support of recently released album Wolfroy Goes To Town.
Tickets on sale Thursday 1st December priced €28 (incl booking fee) from www.ticketmaster.ie & Ticketmaster outlets nationwide. 0818 719 300 – Republic of Ireland customers 0844 277 4455 –…

Update: Grandmaster Flash has been rescheduled from Dec 2nd to Jan 27th.
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The return of the Grandmaster this December has us all weak at the knees. He sold out last time he played The Village. In fact 300 people were turned away at

Owensie launched one of our favourite Irish albums of 2011 back in January and 11 months later, he is releasing Aliens as a free download for a limited time along with a cassette version featuring remixes entitled I Saw The Flashing Lights Remixes… on the B-side of the tape by Sertone, Sacred Animals, Tenaka, Bantum,

Adele has released a live version of her smash-hit album 21. The Live At The Royal Albert Hall… concert film DVD and Blu-Ray with a live CD of the show is in shops now since Friday but you can listen to the audio of the show and watch one video below.

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Hometown Glory