Jim Carroll

• Live music
• March 31, 2009, 12:28

As announced by On The Record readers last week and again yesterday, Leonard Cohen plays Dublin’s 02 on July 19 and 20 and Belfast’s Odyssey on July 26. Tickets for the Belfast show go on sale this Friday (£90, £70) …

• Live music
• March 30, 2009, 15:19

It’s the return of everyone’s favourite Canuck with a fiddle. Final Fantasy plays Dublin’s Whelan’s on May 29. Support from Cryptacize. Tickets are €20 plus booking fee.

• Randomiser
• March 30, 2009, 03:46

(1) Know the way some of you are gagging – gagging, I tell you – to get the first official word on the Electric Picnic line-up? Remember how this was promised “early April” and “next week”? Well, that ain’t going …

• The Ticket
• March 27, 2009, 03:50

In The Ticket today, there’s a round-up of the best bands I saw at last week’s South By Southwest festival, interviews with Ladyhawke and PJ Harvey and John Parish and film director Richard “Four Weddings” Curtis talks about his new …

• Tune of the Week
• March 26, 2009, 04:16

There are times when only a classic will do.

• Festivals
• March 25, 2009, 04:02

Seeing as last week’s news about Festival Republic taking a slice of the Electric Picnic was released late on the eve of a bank holiday (and a sunny bank holiday at that), it may be an idea to revisit the …

• Live music
• March 24, 2009, 03:40

Bon Iver plays the Big Top at the Galway Arts Festival on July 23. Support comes from Alela Diane. We’re hoping Justin Vernon will find the time to head down to Eyre Square to flog some mobile phones while he’s …

• SXSW
• March 23, 2009, 14:18

Let’s call it Carnage On Sixth Street: The Sequel. Saturday night and it’s coming up to midnight. I run into Nialler9 on Sixth Street, that couple of city blocks where all the SXSW madness goes on. It’s like Bourbon Street …

• SXSW
• March 23, 2009, 00:51

Friday afternoon. Corner of Colarado and 4th. Walk out of yet another dark, dingy club into the blinding sunlight after watching The Ettes turn on the style as only a three-piece garage-rock powerhouse from LA now living in Nashville with …

• SXSW
• March 20, 2009, 15:17

Another day, another tattoo. The sun is blazing down on Austin, the cops are getting itchy (c’mon guys, you know you are) and thousands of indie music fans are out there racing in the streets. First Bruce reference today. There …

• The Ticket
• March 20, 2009, 04:08

In today’s issue of The Ticket, the music and movies supplement which comes your way every Friday, there’s a plethora of good stuff. Tom Humphries defends the honour of Leeds United fans everywhere by issuing a fatwa against the makers …

• SXSW
• March 19, 2009, 14:59

And we’re off. Officially, there are 1,950 bands playing in 73 venues around Austin, Texas during SXSW Music. But when you add in the fact that many non-official venues are pressed into service – including a couple of spaces which …

• SXSW
• March 18, 2009, 03:35

Today (Wednesday), the musicians arrive, SXSW Music gets under way and the real madness begins. In fact, the bands are already rolling up in their hundreds, stretching in the sun and wondering just who had the bright idea that they …

• SXSW Technology
• March 17, 2009, 16:55

One very noteworthy aspect of every SXSWi panel I’ve been to has been how individual Twitter feeds act as a collective thought-bubble for the room. As the panelists go about their business discussing everything from the death of the PR …

• SXSW Technology
• March 16, 2009, 21:05

Irish duo Niall Smart and Cormac Driver launched Echodio at SXSWi’s Accelerator showcase for new tech today. Echodio is a synchonisation product which will allow iTunes users with more than one iTunes library to keep them in sync. For example, …

• Festivals Music business
• March 16, 2009, 17:36

Press release as issued this afternoon below the fold. FYI Festival Republic is the company formerly known as Mean Fiddler and is co-owed by MCD via Gaiety Investments and Live Nation. (1) All those rumours were bang on. (2) Will …

• SXSW
• March 16, 2009, 05:15

It’s that time of year when On The Record’s thoughts turn to Texas and we haul ass over the Atlantic for the best binge-gigging session of them all. The South By Southwest music (SXSW) festival kicks off here in Austin …

• Live music
• March 13, 2009, 19:55

Loads of new gigs announced today – and a few which will be announced next week. Let’s gig-roll! Saint Etienne play Cork’s Opera House on May 30. They’ll be playing the classic “Foxbase Alpha” album in full and a ton …

• The Ticket
• March 13, 2009, 00:09

In this week’s issue of The Ticket, you will find Animal Collective on the cover and an interview inside with Noah “Panda Bear” Lennox, Brian “Geologist” Weitz and Dave “Avey Tare” Portner about their fabulous new album “Merriweather Post Pavilion”. …

• Music business
• March 12, 2009, 09:48

Not surprisingly, the two news stories at the top of music business agenda at the moment show colossal changes in the sector’s power structure. While U2′s decision to ditch the Apple in favour of pimping the Blackberry and YouTube’s move …

• Randomiser
• March 11, 2009, 12:24

Here’s proof that some people will go to desperate measures to get their hands on those plastic discs.

• Live music
• March 11, 2009, 10:43

Wow, that was fast. Ten weeks after their show in Whelan’s and ahead of the release of debut album “Manners”, Passion Pit play Dublin’s Academy on May 7. Tickets go on sale on Friday at €15.50 a pop. No word …

• The Far Side
• March 11, 2009, 09:08

As played on The Far Side, Phantom 105.2, Tuesday March 10, 10pm-midnight The Ettes “No Home” (Take Root) Ty Segall “The Drag” (Castle Face) Baddies “Battleships” (Yo Yo Acapulco) Disconnect 4 “The Rise” (Self-release) Harlem Shakes “Strictly Game” (Gigantic) Lissy …

• Jazz Live music
• March 10, 2009, 14:02

Brand new space about to be launched in Dublin for improvised and experimental music. The Fold will be located in St Audeon’s, that church on High Street which DEAF used for some gigs in 2007, and will have four outings …

• Live music
• March 10, 2009, 08:54

Just noticed that Foggy Notions are bringing the ace Health back to Ireland next month. They play Whelan’s, Dublin on April 17 and The Menagerie, Belfast the following night. Tickets for the Dublin show are €13 and are now on …

• Randomiser
• March 9, 2009, 08:58

Fabulous new issue of State magazine now available for you to click through here. Top-drawer features include Craig Walker from Power Of Dreams looking back on the years when those Dubliners were young and in their pomp, interviews with Animal …

• The Ticket
• March 6, 2009, 09:24

In today’s issue of The Ticket, your only man/woman when it comes to music and movies and stuff, Donald Clarke goes all the way to 11 with Anvil, the loudest band in Canada who are subject of the rockumentary of …

• Festivals Live music
• March 5, 2009, 13:34

Latest acts added to the Oxegen 2009 party: Nine Inch Nails, Jane’s Addiction, Glasvegas (yes!), Hudson Mohawke (yes, yes!), Eagles of Death Metal, Dreadzone, God is an Astronaut, Tom Middleton, Aeroplane (lets hope they have a live show together by …

• Choice Music Prize
• March 5, 2009, 02:52

In what must rank as one of the most popular decisions since bank holidays were invented, Jape took home the Choice Music Prize bacon at Vicar Street last night for the “Ritual” album. Big congrats to Richie “dude looks like …

• Choice Music Prize
• March 4, 2009, 09:06

This time tomorrow, the shouting will be in full swing here and elsewhere. As someone said to me yesterday, the blog post-mortem will probably be as entertaining as the actual event. Tonight, in Dublin’s Vicar Street, 12 colourful rogues, sorry, …

• The Far Side
• March 4, 2009, 08:26

As played on The Far Side, Phantom 105.2, Tuesday March 3, 10pm-midnight Lemonade “Big Weekend” (True Panther) Project Jenny, Project Jan “Train Track” (Might) The Harlem Shakes “Strictly Game” (Gigantic) Little Comets “One Night In October” (Lucky Number) The Golden …

• Festivals
• March 3, 2009, 11:11

The latest batch of names for Oxegen 2009 include TV On The Radio, Manic Street Preachers (yeah, they’re still going), Lady Gaga, Florence & The Machine, The Game, Ladyhawke, James, Foals, Of Montreal, Squeeze and – yes! – Friendly Fires. …

• Hip-hop Live music
• March 3, 2009, 09:28

N.A.S.A. play Cork’s Pavilion on July 8 and Dublin’s Crawdaddy on July 9. We reckon the four dozen superstars who have guested on the “Spirit of Apollo” album – including Lykke Li, Tom Waits, Kanye West, Santigold, David Byrne, Chuck …

• Randomiser
• March 2, 2009, 09:38

(1) If you only read one book this month about the music industry, make sure it John Niven’s Kill Your Friends. It won’t tell you anything you don’t already know about this den of thieves, numpties, losers and sinners, but …