In no particular order....

My 5 fave interweb costumes from this years halloween

Mother and daughter 

The Grady Sisters

Chill things this Friday!

You may be familiar with Swedish sister-duo First Aid Kit. Both born in the 90s, the young act have quickly risen to notoriety with their sweet and simple approach to folk. “Winter Is All Over You” was on their first album The Big Black & Blue, but this remix actually only came out after their *second* album was released. Perhaps Baauer was feeling sentimental? 

First Aid Kit play Dublins Vicar Street Nov 25th.

 

Meet Electric Guest

Electric Guest is a Los Angeles-based band comprising Asa Taccone, Matthew Compton, and the brothers Todd and Tory Dahlhoff. Until 2011, Electric Guest was a duo with original members Taccone and Compton, before the Dahlhoffs joined to make it a four-member band. Having worked with Danger Mouse as a producer, they were featured on MTV’s list of Artists to Watch in 2012. 

On April 24, 2012, the band released their debut album, Mondo. The band has released two music videos, the first for their single “This Head I Hold”, and the second for their song “American Daydream”. Electric Guest began touring in 2011 in Europe, and is currently touring America until May 27, 2012. They performed at the film festival South by Southwest in 2012.

 

Thursday Funnies

Donegal Abú!

Mercury Music Prize nominations announced!

Florence and the Machine Presale Info

FLORENCE PRESALE ALERT:

Florence and the Machine goes on tour soon, the dates are:

Dec 4 - Exeter, Westpoint
Dec 5 - London, O2 Arena
Dec 8 - Coventry, Ricoh Arena
Dec 9 - Aberdeen, AECC
Dec 10 - Liverpool, Echo Arena
Dec 12 - Dublin, The O2

Tickets for the tour will on go on pre-sale through http://tickets.florenceandthemachine.net/ from 9am on Wednesday 12th September. They will then go on general sale from 9am on Friday 15th September.

What a beautiful song....

Since winning the GMA Songwriter of the Year award in 2006, Christa Wells has been best known as the writer of top songs for other artists. In 2009 she released her own solo album, Frame the Clouds, featuring performances by some of the artists who have recorded her work, such as Plumb, Todd Smith (member of Selah), and Sara Groves.

In 2011, she released her second solo project, HOW EMPTINESS SINGS, which received high accolades from both reviewers and fans, followed by a joint effort EP, IMAGE OF GOD, with fellow singer/songwriter Nicole Witt. Under the Radar Radio has included songs from How Emptiness Sings on their list of top gourmet songs of 2011.

As a songwriter, her songs have been hit singles, including most notably “Held” recorded by Natalie Grant, which received airplay in both Christian and mainstream markets.

Born in Texas and raised in a military family, Christa spent her childhood in various states and overseas in Germany. Her earliest influence was Amy Grant, but listeners will hear more prominently traces of Natalie Merchant and Norah Jones, among others.

Today Christa lives with her family in North Carolina, where she works at balancing her musical work with family and community life and is an advocate for Masterpiece Ministries, a creative arts camp for high schoolers.

Patrick Wolf

Patrick Wolf is releasing a 2-disk album in October that is a re-imagination of his songs. The album is in honor of the ten year anniversary of his first released album, and every song on Sundark & River is going to acoustic. This is the released preview track for that album. This song is ridiculously beautiful.

 

New Sigor Rós!

For what they describe as a Mystery Film Experiment for their new album Valtari, Sigur Rós gave twelve filmmakers identical modest budgets and invited them to create videos based on ‘whatever came into their head’ when they listened to songs from the album.

I want

Music for your...umm...summer

Fang Island is an American indie rock band formed in Providence, Rhode Island, and based in Brooklyn, New York. The group consists of guitarists Jason Bartell, Chris Georges and drummer Marc St. Sauveur. Their self-titled debut album on Sargent House was released in February 2010. MOJO praised the band for being “simply killer fun”, while The 405 described the album as “A joyous stomp with bouncing drums and tightly played guitarmonies… a real winner” and named it one of the best albums of 2010. Pitchfork called the music on Fang Island “honest and life-affirming and infectious”, tagging the album with the high praise of “Best New Music”. In March 2010, the band performed at the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas, and were named by social networking analytics site Next Big Sound as the artists who experienced the fastest growth in online fandom during the festival. Following their rapid gain in attention, the band spent the remainder of 2010 playing a plethora of shows including support for The Flaming Lips, Stone Temple Pilots, Matt & Kim and numerous headline shows across the North America, the UK and Europe. Whereas Fang Island described their debut as “everyone high-fiving everyone”, their highly anticipated follow up Major is evermore confident, triumphant and brimming with infectious enthusiasm. Its warm harmonies are given proper berth with more expansive dynamics and focused pop song craft. Fang Island’s Major was be released on July 24th, 2012.

Fair point! :)

Photos from the Olympics, 104 years ago.

Sit back and enjoy this series from the 1908 Olympics. This was the first year that London hosted. It’s remarkable how much has changed in just the last 104 years. What would these folks think if they saw the clothing our athletes wear these days? I simply can’t stop looking at these! Full spread here.

“The Stigma Has To Be Broken.”

Made by the students of IT Tralee, about Youth Suicide. It’s honest, insightful and helps raise awareness about a problem that is all too often stigmatised.

Meanwhile in South Africa

Morning!

The Gaelic League Anniversary

A 1913 poster for The Gaelic League, which celebrates its anniversary today (it was founded on July 31, 1893 by Douglas Hyde).

tee hee hee

Some lovely Bob for lunchtime

The cutest thing IN THE WORLD!

USA Olympians try their hand at Cockney Slang

A United States Olympic wrestler says she knows that "people in London talk funny," but does she know that the Cockney dialect she's speaking of actually has specific social and geographic ties?


To get themselves in the London spirit, a gaggle of U.S. Olympians took to the classroom to try their hand at the infamous Cockney accent. Their efforts are both hilarious and unfortunate, but in the end, one thing was true: USA should be grateful that Cockney impressions is not an Olympic sport. If it were, the Americans would dominate for all the wrong reasons.

 

Some new FUN.

July Fails

Dizzy much?

Hello Wednesday!

Slightly Belle + Sebastian

Ryland Blackinton had written a few songs which were heavily rooted in bossa nova and folk music. Alex Suarez quickly learned the songs and brought a cohesive poppy edge to them. The culmination of the two styles produced a folky-pop sound that both were pleased with, creating .This Is Ivy League This was the basis of their first single, “London Bridges,” which was released by indie label Twentyseven Records in 2006. Their debut full-length was released April 1, 2008.

Just putting it out there....

My first world problem! :) (one of many! :) )

I was crapping myself just watching this!

Professional jumper (Daniel MosI) from Bagjump demonstrates his skills of performing flips and stunts and diving tricks from extreme 30m heights onto a large air bag.

5 guys, one piano, play One Direction

Pay it forward

I found this story to be uniquely sad and in a weird way uplifting. This woman [Agnieszka Jablonska] is on a pilgrimage because she lost the love of her life [Maurice Crowe, from Waterford city, who was killed by Pit Bulls while working in Malaysia]. And she’s with a donkey. Ireland should not only welcome her with open arms but try and make sure she’s safe and looked after, if for nothing else but for karma brownie points. 

Waterford News Story

Original story of Maurice Crowe death

I got 99 problems....

LOVING this cover!!

Sound Advice

Escape the madness

In preparation for the London Olympics, Tourism Ireland try to get some British o Ireland

Good morning!

Game of Thrones Roleplaying (NSFW)

Just sayn'

For Brian

Now, that's how you play guitar!

Go go Katie Taylor! - St. Stephens Green

Ear Candy

Is there no justice in the world?

I normally don't really do serious issues, but reading this mornings headlines I came across the following:

"Mum gets 16 months for sexually assaulting and filming four year old daughter"

A 28 year old mother who sexually assaulted and exploited her four-year-old daughter by filming her with the child's father naked from the waist down has been jailed for 16 months.

Full story

If you can't trust your parents, and you can't trust your judicial system who the hell CAN you trust?

16 MONTHS.

Gotye and Carly Rae Jepsen mash up

Mid dive @ The Olympics