Heads up hipsters. Eyes out lovers of the distorted underground. Jandek is to Sonic Youth as Daniel Johnston is to the Beach Boys, and Jandek’s playing Dublin. The legendary rock recluse will be appearing at Trinity’s Douglas Hyde Gallery Gallery on the 13th of June. Tickets go on sale May 1st, priced €20. More info available from the gallery.
Jandeks music is mediative, tuned down, ‘difficult‘. But it generously rewards the dedicated listener. Expect this..
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Happened to happen upon magnificently hip Stockholm sixpiece Monde Yeux, in Grafton St the other day. The lads were making such a fine racket I had to grab a mini-interview. Like a more coherent Making Dens, Monde Yeux’s debut album, Naked Girls, written over a summer in Dublin, is a hodge podge of Frames like post Folk, Adam Greenesque Chanteuse, and melodic ColdWar Kids style indie. Definitely worth a listen. Considering the Depp like face beauty of the bands lead singer, Jack, merely the prettiest of a band rivalling a …

Thanks a million to everyone who voted, and congratulations to the Record and Trinity News both took home a boatload of awards.
Ailbhesaurus promises a photo blog soon. For now, here’s the team, high on victory juice.

Pitchfork.tv (previously mentioned on Anablog) Pitchfork’s first foray into online video, has launched.
The good news is that the site works. Unlike recent video efforts from a variety of providers from the BBC to Comedy Central, Pitchfork.tv isn’t region locked and does not require a specific browser, or insist that viewers are not behind a firewall. Video’s are freely navigable, and right now don’t suffer from textual or interstitial advertising, and while (for the most part) they can’t be embedded, they can be linked to directly.
The bad news is that right …

I cut my teeth on acoustic music, though I rarely listen to it these days. So much seems repetitious, vapid, self congratulatory. The simple pure beauty of a Buckley track, the spicy outrage of Dylan, the melodic subtleties of Nick Drake, well to be blunt, it’s all been done right? Every now and then however, you hear a voice so clear and elemental, so sweet and fine and effortlessly reflexive, you’re forced to stop and listen. Off you go and listen to the folksy alt-country Nathalie Nahai.

Everyone’s favourite Icelandic oddball collective Sigur Ros, have taken the fascinating step of posting the entirety of their documentary DVD ‘Heima’ on youtube. This is pretty unprecedented, and must have required a deal with Google to allow such a lengthy clip. You can also download a high resolution scene from the film on the bands website. In addition to the whole film, a variety of clips from Hemia have been posted separately to encourage remixing.

It’s probably news to no one but me at this point, but the Nine Inch Nails have followed in the footsteps of Radiohead and Saul Williams, in offering their latest release ‘Ghosts‘ for free download. When you hit the order page of their site, your options include a free download, a very reasonable $5 dollar download, a $10 double physical cd package, including lossless FLAC and Mp3 versions of the album; a $75 deluxe album package, featuring the original multi-track session files, a 96Khz blue ray disc of the album, …

Yesterday, Pitchfork, the leading online independent music outlet announced it’s intention to launch Pitchfork TV, a 24 hour online music independent music channel. We’ve had high hopes in the past with the launch of MTV2, and even homegrown shows like ‘No Disco’, but Pitchfork are one outlet that look like they have the passion, accesses, integrity and well cash to pull this off in the long term.
The channel promises..
“…original mini-documentaries, secret rooftop and basement sessions, full concerts, exclusive interviews, and the most carefully curated selection of music videos online.”
Additionally Pitchfork …

If you thought you enjoyed Analogue Issue 3 on PDF, then just wait till you get your hands on Analogue Issue 2 on PDF! It’s packed to the brim with band’s you’ve only heard of, and others you just wish you knew. Including (but not limited to) Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, Soulwax, Andrew Bird, Kevin Drew, and O’Death. Yum yum!
Grab it while it’s hot.

Hot on the heels of our recent Blog awards nomination, I’ve been thinking a little about the future of the site, and I’d like your input (writers and readers!). Ultimately stuff like this is up to our lord and master, but the site is designed to serve the reader, so dear reader, please vote in the poll below.
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Barring whatever, I’ll keep this up till the 11th of March. If you happen to be a graphic designer (ideally with experience working with wordpress), and would like to help us design a …