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.

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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

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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).

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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.