Featuring So Cow, Tieranniesaur and Biggus Diccus plus Popical & State Social DJs.…

Mogwai are to release their first ever live album / compilation (Special Moves) and DVD (Burning) package on August 20th. Recorded over three nights in New York last year, the visuals have been handled by Take Away Shows directors Vincent Moon and Nathanaël Le Scouarnec. The track-listings are as follows:
Special …

The second album from Adebesi Shank is to be released on August 20th through the Richter Collective label. The follow up to This Is The Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank, This Is The Second Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank… has an epic running time of 40 minutes (as opposed to

A trend that is still to take off here, the one day urban festival is alive and well in the UK. London in particular, with its mass of parks, is proving a prime spot and while no-one could claim that Shoreditch Park is one of the city’s great beauty spots, it serves the purpose of…

It’s a Richter Collective double bill on Wexford Street on Friday 13th August with The Cast Of Cheers and support Enemies at Whelan’s. Tickets €10 (incl booking fee) available from WaV [lo-call 1890 200 078], Ticketmaster, Tickets.ie, City Discs.…

The number of people killed at the Love Parade in Germany now stands at 19, with a further 340 people injured. While many are blaming the organisers for routing festival goers through one tunnel, the mayor of Duisburg has said that it is too early to know what happened. “”The Love Parade has always been…

The chances are that you’ll be aware of this record. It has not been received kindly and any subsequent review must be aware of the elephant in the room. There he is, strutting round in shades and a leather jacket. Most of what you have heard is true. Everything about the new album by Richard…

In the film industry above all others, even the music business, the battle between creative awareness and the need to make money is a hugely unbalanced one. Every summer we find ourselves faced with a series of sequels that are mostly shadows of the original idea. This year we’ve already had a fourth Shrek film…

It’s one of the best tracks on his excellent album The Boxer… and now Kele has released ‘Everything You Wanted’ as his second solo single.
Here’s the moving pictures…

Our plan to take the much heralded US trio Mountain Man into the sumptuous environs of the Iveagh Gardens seemed a splendid idea when we arrived to find the sun splitting the trees and the park full of sunbathers and happy, playing children. Fast forward an hour and we’re in the middle of a torrential downpour.…

State readers who have become increasingly irritated by the seemingly endless stream of -h’ dropping, vowel mangling, accent shifting English indie pop stars will no doubt be viewing the prospect of a debut album from Eliza Doolittle with a fair amount of dread. Yet while Eliza Caird seems to have shown her hand with chosen…

Today has seen the announcement of a number of new names for the Electric Picnic. Joining the masses at Stradbally in September are Two Door Cinema Club; Robyn; Laura Marling; The Antlers; The Tallest Man on Earth; Cymbals Eat Guitars; Chew Lips; Fang Island; The Riptide Movement; Donal Dineen & Friends; Brian Deady.…

Original Big Star member Andy Hummel has passed away after a two year battle with cancer aged 59. His death comes just four months after the demise of Alex Chilton.…

Bands or artists taking a sudden change of direction is a rare thing these days, especially if they’ve had even a modicum of success in a previous incarnation. Bombay Bicycle Club turned enough heads as a rough and tumble indie outfit to suggest that their particular future lay in battling it out with the Pigeon…