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Welcome to One Track Minded, where we pick a select cut from a chosen act and delve beneath the surface. This time out, Justin McDaid delves deep on a blues and soul classic… “I would rather go blind, boy/ Than to see you walk…

It’s the Stooges contrary, opening lyric from this record’s first single that kind of sums up Sophie Allison’s themes throughout her debut proper: “I don’t wanna be your fucking dog/ That you drag around…” It’s a realisation - an admission…

At The Drive-In  In•ter a•li•a  "ATTENTION ! To whom it may concern: AT THE DRIVE-IN will be breaking their 11 year silence. THIS STATION IS .... NOW ....OPERATIONAL." Five simple words that elicited a collective “Fucking YES” from…

They never simply go through the motions; never play it as if a set is just another box to be ticked off on the touring circuit. On their previous visit to Dublin, in the National Concert Hall last August, Warpaint kept the crowd on their…

Angel Olsen My Woman Midway through Angel Olsen’s fourth release as a solo artist comes a plea - no…a demand, and an invocation. “Oh, let the light shine in”, she sings, as the drum rolls abide in the mid-section of ‘Not Gonna Kill You’…

Welcome to THE PLAYLIST, where we pick a theme and, er, make a playlist around it. Sometimes you might get an essay, other times you might get just one sentence as a precursor to the laser-focused audio delights that await below. Justin…

Welcome to THE PLAYLIST, where we pick a theme and, er, make a playlist around it. Sometimes you might get an essay, other times you might get just one sentence as a precursor to the laser-focused audio delights that await below.…

“I dread to think what the future will bring” Top Of The Pops, August 1979: Coventry ska band The Specials have caused a minor stir in the charts with their first single, ‘Gangsters’, released on their own 2 Tone label and kicking off what…

Animal Collective Painting With There’s an interesting caution from Animal Collective on ‘The Burglars’, buried in the middle of Painting With - “What you think you own you don’t/ Watch out the burglars.” Is it a reference to sampling…