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BY: WILL RUSSELL PUBLISHED IN HOTPRESS ON 27 NOVEMBER 2020 Happy Thanksgiving, From Longford with Love… There is a road that leads from Drumlish to Ballinamuck in the County Longford that they call the Bronx. For centuries, many born here, joined the thousands sailing west and settled in that New York borough across the Harlem River. Continue Reading
BY: WILL RUSSELL PUBLISHED IN HOTPRESS 30 OCTOBER 2020 Eels main man E discusses the band’s defiantly hopeful new opus Earth To Dora, the legacy of his famous physicist father, and onstage hi-jinks at Dublin’s Olympia. https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.427.1_en.html#goog_1977192132volume is gedempt Eels’ ringmaster, Mark ‘E’ Everett, answers the phone to Hot Press from an LA that – if reports to be believed Continue Reading
Published in Hotpress 16 October 2020 BY: WILL RUSSELL Sundowner is out now. Kevin Morby penned an ode to New York on his first album, Harlem River. He is a Kerouac wandering figure on Still Life and a Los Angeleno erratic seeking the moon by way of John Fante on Singing Saw and City Music. On his new album, Sundowner, Morby ambitiously attempts to Continue Reading
BY: WILL RUSSELL Post-punk crew make their masterwork. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. With the wax barely cooled on Dogrel, Grian Chatten had already penned the title-track on this boss sophomore effort. A Hero’s Death, it transpires, is a different beast to Fontaines D.C.’s critically acclaimed debut album Dogrel. That much we can Continue Reading
BY: WILL RUSSELL – HOTPRESS 04.08.20 What The Butler saw Recording after a three-decade hiatus is a risky business, but the good news is that the 2020 version of The Psychedelic Furs do not disappoint. On Made Of Rain’s swirling opener ‘The Boy Who Invented Rock And Roll’, Richard Butler’s voice is as complicated sa ever Continue Reading
BY: WILL RUSSELL Garage hero Mike Skinner on The Streets’ comeback mixtape, creating his debut feature film, and how electronic music has changed over the past 20 years. volume is gedempt At the turn of the century, Mike Skinner single-handedly slew the UK music scene, gladiator that he is. His debut album, Original Pirate Material – created Continue Reading
Published in Hotpress on 25 June BY: WILL RUSSELL Side 4 Collective’s fantastic debut album We Burn Bright brings an eclectic array of Irish and international artists together. The bandleader is internationally renowned drummer Dave Hingerty. He recorded dozens of unusual drum patterns with the help of studio guru Anthony Gibney at Audioland Studios. Artists were then invited Continue Reading
Published in Hotpress on 24 June BY: WILL RUSSELL Brilliantly eclectic effort from Irish collective. Side 4 Collective is a wrecking crew of talents assembled by Dave Hingerty of The Frames. The roll call is meaty: Paul Noonan, Josh Ritter, Adrian Crowley, Joe Chester, Cathal Coughlan and Katy Perry’s musical director, Adam Marcello, are just some Continue Reading
Published in Hotpress on 8 June BY: WILL RUSSELL “In the rosy parks of England / We’ll sit and have a drink / Of VP wine and cider ’till we can hardly think / And we’ll go where the spirits take us / To heaven or to hell / And kick up bloody murder in the Continue Reading
Published in Hotpress on 11 May, 2020 BY: WILL RUSSELL Away baby, let’s go! No matter what befell revelers of the Second Summer of Love, wherever and whenever you partook in it, we’ll always have Screamadelica. Like the Stones’ Exile on Main St. it is a record to get lost in, a record where you can almost hear Continue Reading