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Monthly Archives: February 2013

magicmanpress-1024x682 New Music – Magic Man, Kwabs, The River Cry

New music selections from Rhode Island, London and Ireland

8386146330_b490d89ed6_z Here come the summer festivals

The very tasty bill for the new Longitude festival at Dublin’s Marlay Park ensures it’s going to a hectic summer for Irish music festival fans – and promoters

Beach House Band Photo. New on Radio OTR this week

The latest additions to the Radio OTR playlist

ifpi_digital_music_2013_report_650 Time for a party: global music sales are on the rise again

Yesterday’s report from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry shows music sales have increased for the first time since 1999

The return of The Far Side

The Far Side radio show now resides on On the Record

post_50f971c2b296c8.99049873 The Beatyard festival, Dublin, May

Hudson Mohawke and many more head to Dublin for the Beatyard Festival across the city in May

Girls_Names The age of niche

Why the most exciting and innovative music and art can be found in the magins – and why the mainstream is content to ignore it

Hats off to a second-hand single that’s far from shabby

Right now, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, the brace of rappers from Seattle, are sitting pretty at the top of various charts worldwide with “Thrift Shop”. Thrift shop dudes Macklemore and Ryan Lewis We’ve heard plenty of hip-hop cuts with pop …

1224330296423_1 Now Playing – the sounds of the week at OTR HQ

Five great music selections from the last seven days

What’s in The Ticket today – and your plugs

The best in music and movies from The Ticket in The Irish Times

New Music – Khushi, Them Swoops, The Altered Hours

OTR’s new music picks this week with acts from London, Melbourne and Cork

New on Radio OTR this week

The latest additions to the Radio OTR playlist

Lady Gaga and the business of cancellations

The costs involved in cancelling Lady Gaga’s tour shows us how she has become a lucrative pop act

The National, Cork, June 2013

The National to play their first Irish live show in two years in Cork in June

The wrap of the week

Digital New Journalism, the streaming wars, Stories.ie, Pulp Fiction, Johnny Cash, Bad Brains, LL Cool J, Twitter ads and much, much more

Grizzly Bear, Ireland, July 2013

Grizzly Bear to play Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens and Galway’s Big Top this summer.

You no longer have to sing in English to have a hit

How the rise of Psy and other stars from the east might well spell an end to Anglo-American dominance in pop

Now Playing – the sounds of the week at OTR HQ

Five great music selections from the last seven days

What’s in The Ticket – and your plugs

The best in music and movies’ coverage from The Ticket in The Irish Times

New Music – Lorde, Trill Pill, Hands

OTR’s new music picks this week with acts from New Zealand, London and Los Angeles

Beach House, Dublin, July 2013

Biggest Dublin show to date for the Baltimore duo

New on Radio OTR this week

The latest additions to the Radio OTR playlist

Has showrooming killed browsing?
  • Retail
  • February 13, 2013, 09:25

The closure of HMV’s Irish stores is down to many things, including how showrooming has replaced browsing

It’s Mardi Gras time!

Time to get your beads on and go see the Zulu king

A weekend on the streets of Derry

The view from Derry as the Other Voices show arrives in town as part of the City of Culture shenanigans

The Stool Pigeon flies the coop
  • Media
  • February 11, 2013, 09:25

As music newspaper The Stool Pigeon ceases publication, what can we expect from online music journalism in the future?

Time to answer THAT question again: why are Irish concert tickets so expensive?

It’s the question which never goes away, despite the fact that the answer is so darn tooting obvious.

Now Playing – the sounds of the week at OTR HQ

What we’ve been listening to on our stereo this week including Come On Live Long, Jose James and Marvin Gaye

What’s in The Ticket today – and your plugs

The best writing on music and movies, free every Friday with your copy of The Irish Times

The Tallest Man On Earth, Dublin, July 2013

The Tallest Man On Earth plays Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens on July 12. Tickets for this go on sale on Monday at €33.50 a pop (plus TM height tax) and a full support bill will be announced in due course. The …

New Music – Wild Party, Indiana, Jean Harnett

Why you need to check out Wild Party, Indiana and Jean Harnett this week

Smells Like Teen Spirit: the Irish music tribes

Listen to Shane Galvin’s four-part radio series on six decades of Irish musical tribes

Just how many musicians live and work in Dublin?

New Orleans may hype its music and musicians, but isn’t it time that Dublin did something similar with its music makers?

Bantering in Cork and Dublin
  • Banter
  • February 5, 2013, 16:09

Details of Banter events this month in Cork (Saturday Feb 16) and Dublin (Tuesday Feb 26)

Music business lessons from Chief Keef and Fish

What rapper Chief Keef and veteran singer-songwriter Fish can tell us about music biz economics.

The stuff from the weekend: Beyonce, Oxegen, My Bloody Valentine
  • News
  • February 4, 2013, 09:07

News and views on Beyonce’s Irish dates, Oxegen’s return and My Bloody Valentine’s new album “mbv”

Think before you fume about the price of tickets for gigs

Despite a recent court case ruling in Baltimore about high ticket fees, giving out yards about Ticketmaster’s antics may be misplaced

Now Playing – what’s on the OTR jukebox this week

Jagwar Ma “The Throw” (Future Classic) Another ace tribal-psych adventure from the Sydney duo to get the weekend off on the right foot. Wendy Rene “After Laughter Comes Tears (Nicolas Jaar remix)” (White) Wendy Rene’s Wu-friendly soul classic gets the …

What’s in The Ticket today – and your plugs

What’s in The Ticket this week, including interviews with Foals, Darkstar, Slash, Gael Garcia Bernal and Brandon Cronenberg