Jim Carroll

• Live music Media Reviews
• June 29, 2012, 08:55

Next week, the Stone Roses’ reunion bandwagon swaggers into town. As long as there’s no further onstage brouhaha between band members between now and then, the band will play Dublin’s Phoenix Park on Thursday night. Most of the tickets were …

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• May 22, 2012, 09:14

It’s not the first time that a brand has cogged a band’s sound after being rebuffed by the act – see Sigur Ros’ accounts of their adventures in the advertising industry, for instance – but Beach House’s recent run-in with …

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• April 2, 2012, 13:51

Very sad news to report from Belfast about the brilliant AU magazine pulling the plug after nine years and 81 issues. While the website will continue to operate on a voluntary basis, the print issue, which was easily one of …

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• February 20, 2012, 08:30

Every time Chris Brown’s name comes up – and it has come up a lot in the last week – I think of the over-priced baseball caps. It’s January 2009 and Brown is in Dublin to play four sold-out Irish …

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• February 15, 2012, 08:43

Back in October 2010, I was involved with the Dancing About Architecture course for would-be music journalists. Organised by the indefatigable Una Mullally, it was a whole lot of fun and featured various folks talking about talking about music. Like …

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• February 14, 2012, 09:45

We must be due a bout of fuming really soon about Irish bands and radio play. There’s a grand stretch in the evenings – yes, there really is – so that must mean that we’ll soon get an assortment of …

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• 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 …

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• November 18, 2011, 10:00

So where do you go discover new music in 2011? At a time of infinite choice for new releases and acts, and where discovery of new sounds is the meme of the moment, it’s a question which pops up again …