Jim Carroll

• New music
• January 31, 2013, 14:17

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 tips below or check out all past New Music selections here. Ady Suleiman The Nottingham native …

• Bruce
• January 31, 2013, 08:28

The facts: Bruce Springsteen has added two more Irish dates to his Irish tour in July. In addition to previously announced shows in Limerick, Cork and Belfast, Springsteen & The E Street Band will now play Kilkenny’s Nowlan Park on …

• Radio OTR
• January 30, 2013, 14:20

The playlist meeting is over for another week and we’ve a ton of new additions to the Radio OTR schedule. New additions for your listening pleasure this week include tracks by Ryan Hemsworth, Eats Everything, Foals, Gunplay, LULS, C2C, Pascal …

• Banter
• January 30, 2013, 09:45

After our debut appearance with Other Voices in Dingle last month, it’s time for the Banter Salon’s second outing with the festival and TV show as they head to Derry next month for the UK City of Culture 2013 celebrations. …

• Randomiser
• January 29, 2013, 09:28

The wrap isn’t the only thing that’s back, Mack. Say yo (again) to Gizoogle. Bruce Springsteen playing Kilkenny in July? That’s the word on (some of) the streets of the Marble City. All will be revealed about who exactly is …

• Arts Irish Times
• January 28, 2013, 15:12

You’ll find my piece from the weekend’s paper about how FundIt and Kickstarter campaigns have turned artists into chuggers here. It’s something which has become more and more noticable in recent times as some projects struggle to raise funding and …

• Electric Picnic
• January 28, 2013, 09:25

Many OTR readers will have seen one or other – or, indeed, both – of this paper’s news stories over the last few days about the Electric Picnic. On Friday, Gordon Deegan and myself reported on the festival’s €2.1 million …

• Music business Reissues
• January 25, 2013, 09:30

Every so often, you get a reminder that bright sparks still exist in the record label business. Everyone knows about the interesting labels like Glassnote or XL who continue to find new bands, groom them for greatness and send them …

• Now Playing
• January 25, 2013, 08:45

Disclosure featuring AlunaGeorge “White Noise” (PMR) Early contender for tune of the year as a superb Disclosure groove goes large with thanks from AlunaGeorge. Various “Deutsche Elektronische Musik 2” (Soul Jazz) Upcoming double-CD compilation of Kraut-edge electronic music including Can, …

• Plug The Ticket
• January 25, 2013, 07:54

Flight: Oscar nominee (take one) Denzel Washington talks hitting the bottle with Tara Brady. Zero Dark Thirty: Oscar nominee (take two) Jessica Chastain chews over the controversy surrounding Kathryn Bigelow’s new film about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. Biffy …

• New music
• January 24, 2013, 14:00

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 tips below or check out all past New Music selections here. Ryan Vail Derry lad Ryan …

• Festivals Music business
• January 24, 2013, 09:25

It’s not just the record business who want to go back, way back, to a better time and place. I surely wasn’t the only one who was thinking “1993″ when Barcelona’s Primavera Sound announced their line-up yesterday. Blur, the Jesus …

• Banter
• January 23, 2013, 16:04

It’s back! Last October, we had a fabulous night out with The Anti Room ladies at Banter when they dropped by with their guests for a live recording of their monthly podcast. It was such a fantastic night out that …

• Radio OTR
• January 23, 2013, 13:19

It’s that time of week again when we re-up the Radio OTR playlist. New additions to the schedule this week include tracks by Foxygen, Everything Everything, Elliott Smith, Angelo Badalamenti, David Bowie, FaltyDL, Matthew E White, Lord Huron, Temples, No …

• U2
• January 23, 2013, 09:45

You can read my piece in today’s paper about U2′s charity donation and what this tells us about their business affairs here. It’s very interesting to read the urbane and smart Paul McGuinness talking about the band’s profits from live …

• Hip-hop Politics
• January 22, 2013, 14:04

There are some interviews you don’t forget in a hurry and that was the case two years ago when I interviewed Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco. As the standfirst put it, he had a lot to say about his 360 deal, …

• Irish music
• January 22, 2013, 09:37

It’s December 2009 and Two Door Cinema Club are playing the last of that year’s shows at Dublin’s now departed Crawdaddy. The band’s debut album is still a few months away so the venue is busy, but not quite full …

• Retail
• January 21, 2013, 09:30

The news cycle is a fast-moving beast. Last week’s HMV story had its moment in the spotlight and then something else took over. For those directly involved in the story, especially the 4,500 people who worked for the chain, this …

• Music business Retail
• January 18, 2013, 09:58

Around the same time as the story broke about HMV going into adminstration in the UK (and receivership in Ireland), a survey appeared which threw some interesting light on the news of another high-profile music retail casualty from the point …

• Now Playing
• January 18, 2013, 09:30

Alexander Hawkins Ensemble “All There, Never Out” (Babel) Inventive jazz from the Oxford pianist and his band. Children of the Night “Kids From Queens” (Мishka) New York crew’s throwback rhymes to remind you of halycon old-school days. Monophona “The Spy” …

• Plug The Ticket
• January 18, 2013, 08:58

The Sessions: John Hawkes on getting touchy-feely in The Sessions as a disabled man looking to lose his virginity to sex therapist Helen Hunt Kendrick Lamar: the man behind the album of 2012 talks about Watch the Throne, writing that …

• New music
• January 17, 2013, 14:00

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 tips below or check out all past New Music selections here. The Royal Concept Experienced bunch …

• Sport
• January 17, 2013, 09:28

It’s time for Lance Armstrong to spit in the soup. Tonight – well, tomorrow morning in this part of the world – the Texan cyclist and doper will tell all about his real life on the bike to Opray Winfrey. …

• Radio OTR
• January 16, 2013, 14:00

The stats tell us that we’d a huge number of listeners tuning into Radio OTR over the Christmas break (remember the Christmas break?) so I hope you enjoyed what you heard. As we do every week, we’ve re-upped the playlist …

• Banter
• January 16, 2013, 09:26

There are some topics which are discussed at Banter which you always want to get back to because of the reaction of the audience and panelists. Next week’s Grow It Yourself discussion takes us back to the issue of food, …

• Retail
• January 15, 2013, 09:00

The overnight news that HMV is about to go into administration (the UK version of examinership) means today will be a bad day for a lot of people. First and foremost, there’s the 4,500 people currently employed by HMV in …

• Festivals Reviews
• January 14, 2013, 09:30

If it’s January, it must be time for the annual trip to Groningen. Over the last couple of years, the Eurosonic music festival has become the best possible start to the year in the binge-gigging business. Those seeking fresh new …

• Music business Technology
• January 11, 2013, 10:00

The original idea here was to take a leaf out of Chief Keef’s book. You may already know the bolshie Chicago teen rapper with a propensity for trouble, a fondness for weed and a great naggingly infectious tune to his …

• Now Playing
• January 11, 2013, 09:00

Various “Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984” (Chocolate Industries) Deep, fascinating electronic soul cuts which sound so ahead of their time. Check out “All About Money” from Spontaneous Overthrow Only Real “Backseat Kissers” (ASL) Sunny bubblegum pop and sweet-as hip-hop vibes …

• 500 Words Guest post
• January 10, 2013, 14:00

One more post! One more post! One more post! We’ve reached the end of the 500 Words Of January series and I’d like to say a huge THANKS to all the writers who gave their time, imagination, craft and words …

• 500 Words Guest post
• January 10, 2013, 09:30

More from the 500 Words Of January series: Darragh McCausland on finding “a silver lining of sorts” to resist the gloom.

• Choice Music Prize
• January 9, 2013, 15:15

Yes, it’s that time of year again. The 10 albums on the Choice Music Prize shortlist for Irish Album of the Year 2012 are: Wallis Bird “Wallis Bird” (Rubyworks) The Cast of Cheers “Family” (Schoolboy Error) Adrian Crowley “I See …

• 500 Words Guest post
• January 9, 2013, 14:00

“It’s about the indefinable, the intangible delirium that all good popstars bring, that heady scent of something great”: Jennifer Gannon pays tribute to Lana Del Rey’s debut album, the one scorned by many in 2012.

• 500 Words Guest post
• January 9, 2013, 09:00

Next up in the 500 Words Of January series, Mark O’Connell dives into the Narcocorrido musical phenomenon and finds “an undeniable family resemblance between the Country and Irish standard-bearers and these Mexican troubadours of cocaine and bloodshed”. Contains first ever …

• 500 Words Guest post
• January 8, 2013, 14:00

Anna Murray is both a classical musician and a member of an indie band. Here, she makes some interesting observations on how audiences react to different performances and why this “one audience, two behaviours” question motivated her to co-found Fractal.

• 500 Words Guest post
• January 8, 2013, 10:00

Back in late November, I bumped into All City’s Olan O’Brien at the Shabazz Palaces/THEEsatisfaction show in Dublin and he went off on a superb, brilliant, colourful rant about the state of hip hop right now. On the way home …

• News Reviews
• January 8, 2013, 09:22

A year ago, we wrote about David Bowie on the occasion of his 65th birthday and wondered if we’d ever see him perform in concert or release new music again. A year on, as he turns 66, there’s the re-return …

• 500 Words Guest post
• January 7, 2013, 14:00

I asked West Coast music and hurling sage Peenie Man for some predictions and hopes for 2013 and this is what he delivered. Case in point: “as part of the terms of our bail-out package, can the statute relating to …

• 500 Words Guest post
• January 7, 2013, 09:15

The 500 Words Of January series resumes on the first proper working week of ’13 with Elaine Buckley looking at how 2012 brought fascinating developments from Irish acts who were once ones-to-watch and why taking your time to get things …

• Music business Technology
• January 4, 2013, 10:00

2013, the year the music industry geeks earn their corn. In the last few years, as we’ve noted here time and time again, forward-thinking bands should thinking about adding a tech-savvy dude or dude-ess to their team. But while a …

• Now Playing
• January 4, 2013, 09:00

K-X-P “Melody” (Melodic) Sparkling electro pop from the Finnish combo’s forthcoming second album. Cassie “The Cassie Trilogy” (Download) A trio of mixtapes to remind you of Cassie’s smarts. Download here. Flume “Bring You Down” (Mom + Pop) Our favourite electronic …

• New music
• January 4, 2013, 08:00

Here are the latest New Music selections from the On The Record column in tomorrow edition of The Ticket. Please feel free to share tips below or check out all past New Music selections here. Nocturn Dublin-based producer Craig Babikan …

• 500 Words Guest post
• January 3, 2013, 14:00

Next up in the OTR’s 500 Words Of January series, John Buckley on Ireland’s collective tolerance of inequality, injustice, racism, homophobia, corruption and discrimination and why – and how – this can be challenged in 2013.

• 500 Words Guest post
• January 3, 2013, 09:30

A fortnight from today, Peter Murphy’s second novel Shall We Gather at the River will be in all good bookshops and online retail stores. Here, he talks about some of the influences behind the book.

• 500 Words Guest post
• January 2, 2013, 14:00

The second in OTR’s 500 Words of January series comes from Annie Atkins on dancing in the cinema aisles to Talking Heads’ “Stop Making Sense”.

• 500 Words Guest post
• January 2, 2013, 09:30

We kick off 2013 on OTR with 500 Words of January, a series of guest posts on anything and everything. Back in August 2010, we invited a bunch of guest writers to contribute to OTR and they did so with …