For her latest music video, Britney Spears has gone with a bizarro theme. From a weird press conference (someone thinks it’s funny I guess), crotch-grabbing Britney, public flasher Britney, fun-poking cinema signage (‘Crossroads 2: Cross Harder’), whistling dogs and babies, Terminator-style robot paparazzi and a milk-pouring fetish (?) scene, the video for ‘I Wanna Go’…

Popical Island’s next release after this Saturday’s Popical Island #2 compilation launch and all-day party will see Annie Tierney aka Tieranniesaur release her self-titled debut album on July 29th.
Now a five-piece counting Annie’s husband and fellow Yeh Deadlies member Padraig O’Reilly, Ian McFarlane of Squarehead, Saileóg O’Halloran (formerly of Feed The Bears), Sara Golding…

After a previous cancellation, the Wu Tang Clan’s Dublin gig is now BACK ON for July 1st. The show in Cork on July 30th was always going ahead. Now the show will be solely promoted by POD as opposed to a POD/Choice Cuts joint.
Tickets are €29.50 & €33.50 plus fees are on sale this…

The Antlers have been announced to play a gig in The Academy, Dublin on Thursday November 17th.
Tickets priced €16.45 plus fees on sale this Friday June 24th from Ticketmaster outlets nationwide and Ticketmaster.ie.
Read Dara Higgins’ review of their new album Burst Apart.…

The Antlers have been announced to play a gig in The Academy, Dublin on Thursday November 17th.
Tickets priced €16.45 plus fees on sale this Friday June 24th from Ticketmaster outlets nationwide and Ticketmaster.ie.
Read Dara Higgins’ review of their new album Burst Apart.…

Laura Marling’s third album A Creature I Don’t Know… gets a release on the 9th of September through Virgin Records. With production by Ethan Johns (Kings Of Leon, Ryan Adams, Ray LaMontagne, Emmylou Harris), here is a trailer for a featuring a new song:

Laura Marling plays Vicar Street, Dublin this Thursday and The Pavilion

More additions for Electric Picnic in Stradbally, Co. Laois (September 2nd-4th) today.
The Rapture
Warpaint
James Blake
James Vincent McMorrow
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
The Unthanks
John Grant
Gemma Hayes
The Japanese Popstars
The Lost Brothers
Funeral Suits …
Tickets
Weekend Tickets are €240 / Family Camping Ticket EU240

The B-side to Bon Iver’s physically-released single ‘Calgary’ is a studio-recorded cover of Bonnie Raitt’s version of ‘I Can’t Make You Love’ Me which Justin Vernon performed live on Fallon last month as part of a medley.
The proper version recorded also includes a coda from Raitt’s ‘Nick Of Time’. Listen to that and the…

Donal Dineen has been delving into curated live music lately so it’s no surprise that the late night radio presenter has set up the Parish Recordings project. The first release is called Hi Five-O and features Aminah Dastan & Liam O’Maonlai on vocals (and harp & guitar), Niwel Tsumbu on guitar, Stephen Mogerly on bass,…

A weekly feature in which our writers share their favourite tracks of the week.
Handsome Furs – ‘Repatriated’ (Chosen by Simon Roche)
This side project from Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner and his wife Alexei is now approaching the third album Sound Kapital… and on ‘Repatriated’ they just keep pumping out their dirty, fuzzy synth sounds

Castlepalooza has announced a further round of musical acts for the festival in Charleville Castle, Tullamore, Co. Offaly (29th – 31st July).
The inclusions are:
Mercury Rev DJ set
Doves DJs Andy & Jez
Krystal Klear
Dry the River
Feldberg
Somadrone
Bitches with Wolves
Diamond Dagger
Attention Bebe
The Dying Seconds
The Kanyu Tree
Ghost…

Diplo and This Is Fake DIY dropped this Major Lazer remix of the best track off the Beasties’ Hot Sauce Committee Part.2… album – ‘Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win’. It’s pretty much what you’d expect from Major Lazer these days – sirens, big beats and Jamaican Major Lazer idents.
Beastie Boys –

Adebisi Shank have been added to the Econo Blowout gig taking place in Button Factory on Saturday June 18th. They join the lineup of Mike Watt & The Missingmen, Tera Melos & Estel. Admission is €14 and it all starts at 8pm.
Here’s a video teaser for the gig and a Facebook page.

Here’s Adebisi…

Bon Iver’s ‘Calgary’ gets an official video treatment courtesy of Justin Vernon and directors of the clip. Andre Durand and Dan Huiting. The video was shot in Fall Creek, Wisconsin in April, the same place where Bon Iver’s self-titled second album was recorded, in a disused pool of a vet’s clinic. The album is released…