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New Dublin venue Electric Lounge launches this weekend
Located in the basement of the old Shebeen Chic (now The Speakeasy Cafe), new venue The Electric Lounge launches tomorrow night (20th) with a very much State approved bill. Based on Dame Lane, the boutique venue is completely curated, designed and run by artists and musicians – with a booking policy to match. The first…
Win a signed copy of the 101 Irish Records You Must Hear book
State dropped its Faces of 2012 digital mag last week, but if you’re looking for something a little more historic than you can check out Tony Clayton-Lea’s book 101 Irish Records You Must Hear…, a guide to some Irish albums down the decades that Mr Clayton-Lea reckons you have to hear. It includes U2,
Incoming: The Jon Cohen Experimental
Once a member of The Dears and The Social Register, Montreal native Jon Cohen is now stepping out on his own. Having recently released his debut album Behold…, featuring guest spots from the likes of Murray Lightburn (The Dears) and Evan Cranley (Stars, Broken Social Scene), The Jon Cohen Experimental plays The Grand Social
Grand Pocket Orchestra confirm new album
Having impressed us immensely with their debut album The Ice Cream, State is delighted to hear that Grand Pocket Orchestra will be releasing a follow up next month. Coming our way via the mighty Popical Island, Ronald & Sylma… will be out on February 24th. Talking of the record, the band’s Paddy Hanna says
Win Lanterns On The Lake tickets
This Friday night sees Newcastle-based sextet Lanterns On The Lake pay Dublin a visit for a show of fragile and graceful folk music at the Workman’s Club. Released on the Bella Union label, who know a thing or two about that sort of music, debut album Gracious Tide, Take Me Home… has seen the band
First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
Four years into their career, Swedish sister duo First Aid Kit (Johanna Söderberg and Klara Söderberg) return with distilled and purified sound. Considering their impact so far, it is perhaps no surprise that the pair have managed to land themselves in the presence of one of the most dazzling indie producers of the 21st century,…
Faces of 2012: Digital Magazine and Compilation
All this week we’ve been bringing you our annual pick of new Irish musical talent, featuring the twenty acts that State feels will come to define 2012. From hip-hop and electronica to quiet acoustic sounds and loud guitars, we think it’s our best list yet. Now you can enjoy the Faces of 2012 in sound…
Faces of 2012: Tenaka
Limerick producer Ronan Carroll makes brooding electronica under the moniker of Tenaka. Collaborating with Sacred Animals, Holy Roman Army, Sorcha Brennan, Daithi and Elaine Mai, his Ephemeral EP is an introspective collection of metronomic arrangements and live instrumentation with casting scope and ambition whetting our appetites for Tenaka’s debut full length album in 2012.
How …
Faces of 2012: The Debutantes
Chiming beneath a veil of reverb, the music of The Debutantes is structurally straight-forward indie but shimmers in its own simplicity. Sounding more sun-soaked than their home turf of Galway, the band’s wash of layered noise, hazy vocals and strummed guitars ring out in heart-melting dream pop.
Describe yourselves and your music.…
Our music changes
Faces of 2012: Tara Masterson Hally
A gleaming new talent from Dublin, Tara Masterson Hally is a fresh voice in timeless folk. Her airy vocals and cooing harmonies are wrapped by the woozy acoustics of harp and guitar creating a resonating ambience. For a girl so young – she still boasts a teen in her age – Hally conveys a weighty…
Glen Campbell: The Goodbye Tour – New York
Director Bob Fosse gave his cinematic alter ego, the womanizing, amphetamine-popping Joe Gideon, a splashy showbiz send-off in the1979 semi-autobiographical film All That Jazz…, staging a musical finale that enabled Gideon to bid farewell to everyone in his life before meeting Death, in the comely form of Jessica Lange.
There is a slight reminder
Faces of 2012: SertOne
Another of Ireland’s bright new stars in electronic music. Drawing inspiration from the intricate bumpin’ hip-hop instrumental style of J Dilla, SertOne is a Portadown native who, at the age of 21, has already been DJing for ten years and making his own music for five.
Who or what inspires you?
I just spend a…
Shame
Director: Steve McQueen
Cast:Carey Mulligan, Michael Fassbender
Cert: 18
Running Time: 99 min
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An average man thinks of sex every seven seconds. Or is it every three minutes? Though the details tend to vary, we’ve all heard the adage revealing mans active cerebral sex life. And like so many old clichés, it’s completely unfounded. But
Faces of 2012: Hush War Cry
Young four-piece Hush War Cry all met while studying Architecture in college together in Cork. Their delicate, nuanced sound is already frightfully well developed. Rich arrangements of guitar, piano and subtleties recall the ornate histrionics of Wild Beasts. The Apparitions EP out this month will be the world’s first taste of these promising young learned…
