Jim Carroll

• Clubs News
• January 31, 2012, 14:12

We’re big fans around these parts of the Red Bull Music Academy and how it works. A school for DJs, producers and music makers, you’ll find many of the RBMA’s past pupils in your record collection. Craftsmen and women like …

• Banter
• January 31, 2012, 09:06

After a very successful Banter session on the Joys Of Running the other week, we’re taking a very different tack this time around with a look at the evolution of the hipster. The spiel: as long as we’ve had street …

• Festivals Live music Music business
• January 30, 2012, 08:56

You know it’s MIDEM weekend when the newswires are full of Paul McGuinness giving out yards about the internet. Yesterday, McGuinness used the annual gathering of record label big-wigs in Cannes to do some fuming and feather-spitting about Google. We …

• Legal Music business Technology
• January 27, 2012, 09:39

It hasn’t gone away, you know. Most of us thought that the debate around music piracy would have been done and dusted by 2012. Yet years after the record industry ran the original Napster out of town but never got …

• Now Playing
• January 27, 2012, 08:33

Francois & The Atlas Mountains “E Velo Love” (Domino France) Fourth album from Francois Marry and friends comes loaded with charming Afropop guitar lines, superbly pitched melodies and cracking tunes. Santigold “Big Mouth” (Atlantic) Gleeful congatastic taster from Santigold’s forthcoming …

• Plug The Ticket
• January 26, 2012, 13:36

What you’ll find in The Ticket on your newstands, app and online tomorrow: The Descendants: when it comes to flicks about a mid-life crisis, director Alexander “Sideways” Payne is your go-to guy. Plus five great mid-life crisis films to put …

• New music
• January 26, 2012, 09:19

Here are the latest New Music selections from the On The Record column in tomorrow’s edition of The Ticket. Please feel free to share New Music tips below. Sad Soul Circus The work of Cork producer and film student Finn …

• The Far Side
• January 25, 2012, 13:51

As played on The Far Side, Phantom 105.2, Tuesday January 24. DJ-ing plug: I’ll be DJ-ing at Glider on Friday (January 27). Glider happens on the last Friday of every month at the Workman’s Club, Dublin 2 from 10pm and …

• Festivals Gigileaks Live music
• January 25, 2012, 09:00

Word from our Windy City sources last night that Wilco will play on the Monday night at the Forbidden Fruit festival in Dublin over the June bank holiday weekend (June 2 to 4). They join the previously announced Factory Floor …

• Food
• January 24, 2012, 14:21

Times are tough and we all need to get paid. Considering the bills from the Harvest festival which was held on his farm last year, perhaps Alex James needed the cash from The Sun for his quite remarkable feature on …

• Festivals Live music Speculation
• January 24, 2012, 09:07

No doubt many of you have been keeping an eye on The Cure’s website over the last few weeks where they’ve been having the crack announcing European festival shows for summer 2012. An Irish show is definitely on the cards …

• Economics Ireland Politics Society
• January 23, 2012, 09:03

After the parties come the protests. In the last 12 months, you were no-one if you didn’t get out there, do some fuming, shake your fist and say that you were as mad as hell and were not going to …

• Media Music business Technology
• January 20, 2012, 09:38

The cool kids may have abandoned MySpace, but that doesn’t mean it’s gone the way of Bebo (yet). The once mighty music social networking site has been on deathwatch since the advent of newer, brighter and snazzier sites Twitter and …

• Now Playing
• January 20, 2012, 08:49

The 2 Bears “Be Strong” (Southern Fried) Top-ranking old-fashioned house buzz from Joe Goddard and Raf Rundell. Playing Dublin’s Button Factory on February 17. Marsha Ambrosius “Sour Times” (J) The US r’n’b diva puts a new, sultry, bittersweet twist on …

• Plug The Ticket
• January 19, 2012, 13:43

What you’ll find in The Ticket on your newstands, app and online tomorrow: Margin Call: he might be a famous Vulcan (Spock) and mutant baddie (Sylar in Heroes), but Zachary Quinto tells Tara Brady he has no problem being fully …

• New music
• January 19, 2012, 09:16

Here are the latest New Music selections from the On The Record column in tomorrow’s edition of The Ticket. Please feel free to share New Music tips below. Dott Sunny garage rock with dash, shizzle and, as evidenced on debut …

• The Far Side
• January 18, 2012, 14:17

As played on The Far Side, Phantom 105.2, Tuesday January 17. First hour last night was a Far Side Of Eurosonic special, featuring some of the hits from last weekend in Groningen. DJ-ing plug: I’ll be DJ-ing at Glider on …

• News
• January 18, 2012, 09:00

It may have been rather quiet in the last few months but Dublin’s O2 still puts a lot of bums on seats. The venue was the fifth best-attended music arena globally in 2011, with ticket sales of €36.26 million, per …

• Lists Reviews
• January 17, 2012, 09:14

Now that 2011′s musical comings and goings have been settled (though we’re still waiting for the Irish record industry to let us know about sales for the year – they’re obviously too busy suing this plucky little outcrop of rock …

• Festivals Live music Reviews
• January 16, 2012, 09:02

The hits kept coming at Eurosonic on Friday. After chairing the Irish music in Europe panel – which came to the conclusion that Irish acts need to work harder and smarter (and get a few lucky breaks) to make a …

• Festivals Live music Reviews
• January 13, 2012, 10:44

If it’s January, it must be Groningen and time for OTR to return to the lovely Dutch city for the annual Eurosonic festival. For a couple of nighrs. festival bookers, radio programmers, agents, promoters, media folk and your ordinary decent …

• Music business Technology
• January 13, 2012, 09:30

There are many acts out there who will nod their heads in recognition when they read Wayne Fahy from Dublin band Sleep Thieves’ latest blog post. In December, the band discovered that their debut album “Heart Waves” had been illegally …

• Now Playing
• January 13, 2012, 08:37

Julia Holter “Tragedy” (Leaving) An album released with little fanfare in 2011, the Los Angeles composer and conceptual artist’s “Tragedy” is hypnotic, beautiful, euphoric and inspirational. Chase N. Cashe “Trill Living 2.0” (White) Beats and rhymes to get you rocking …

• Plug The Ticket
• January 12, 2012, 13:59

What you’ll find in The Ticket on your newstands, app and online tomorrow: J Edgar: screenwriter Dustin Lance Black on the new flick about former FBI director J Edgar Hoover Delorentos: Nial Conlan and Kiernan McGuinness on the ups and …

• New music
• January 12, 2012, 09:15

Here are the latest New Music selections from the On The Record column in tomorrow’s edition of The Ticket. Please feel free to share New Music tips below. Faws Right now, we know zilch about this Dublin-based producer or producers …

• Choice Music Prize
• January 11, 2012, 15:15

Here we go: the 10 albums on the Meteor Choice Music Prize shortlist for Irish Album of the Year 2011 are: And So I Watch You From Afar “Gangs” (Richter Collective) Bell X1 “Bloodless Coup” (Belly Up Records) Cashier No …

• The Far Side
• January 11, 2012, 09:33

As played on The Far Side, Phantom 105.2, Tuesday January 10. Boddika “Up & Dance” (White) Blawan “Peaches” (Clone) Jim-E Stack “Lemme” (Good Years) Scissor Sisters vs Krystal Pepsy “Shady Love” (Polydor) Ava Luna “Wrenning Day” (Infinite Best) The Cast …

• News Recommended music Reviews
• January 10, 2012, 13:46

It will not have escaped your attention that David Bowie turned 65 at the weekend. There were a few gigs to mark the birthday, plenty of lengthy articles hailing the man hitting the bus-pass milestone and a lot of Bowie …

• Banter
• January 10, 2012, 08:42

On your marks, get set, go! It’s Banter time again and our first outing for 2012 is The Joys of Running. It really seems as if there is someone running up and down outside your window at every hour of …

• Randomiser
• January 9, 2012, 08:58

If it’s the second week of the year, that can only mean one thing for the Irish music scene. The Choice Music Prize shortlist is announced on Wednesday afternoon and, as has become the norm, we’ll carry all the fuming, …

• Music business Technology
• January 6, 2012, 10:00

It’s not just baseball managers like Billy Beane who have the hots for data-mining. The news that the world’s biggest live music company Live Nation has acquired media metrics analysts Big Champagne shows that even seasoned music business veterans see …

• Now Playing
• January 6, 2012, 09:00

Delorentos “Little Sparks” (Delorecords) Third album from Delerontos comes with strong songs and ace musical chops. Emeli Sande “Our Version Of Events” (EMI) The Scot who swapped neuroscience for singing delivers an album with considerable heft and mighty hooks. Oliver …

• Plug The Ticket
• January 5, 2012, 13:51

What you’ll find in The Ticket on your newstands, app and online tomorrow: Movie previews: Donald Clarke runs the rule over cinema releases from now until April. Cashier No 9: Danny Todd and his bandmates are finally hitting the big …

• New music
• January 5, 2012, 10:59

Here are the latest New Music selections from the On The Record column in tomorrow’s edition of The Ticket. Please feel free to share New Music tips below. Firehorse Prepare to be hypnotised by the songs and sass of Leah …

• Live music
• January 5, 2012, 09:17

Oh yes. Azealia Banks, the lady behind “212″, our tune of 2011, plays Dublin’s Whelan’s on February 6. Tickets €15 plus TM fees on sale tomorrow. Meanwhile, the excellent Grimes, who was one of our hits from SXSW 2011 and …

• The Far Side
• January 4, 2012, 13:51

As played on The Far Side, Phantom 105.2, Tuesday January 3. First show of the new year and we’re back in business with a ton of new stuff (and a 1957 beauty from Miles Davis). Outasight “Let’s Go” (Asylum) Django …

• Archive
• January 4, 2012, 09:25

It’s not every day that one of your past interviewees decides to stand for president of his country, but I suppose Youssou N’Dour could never be regarded as your typical interviewee to begin with. His decision to challenge Senegal’s incumbent …

• Irish music New music
• January 3, 2012, 08:54

There’s something quite invigorating about the start of a new year and all that the changing of the calendar on the wall brings with it. Time to start anew. Time to try out well-known Gucci model Sam Beckett’s great line …