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  • Hoarsebox: Work Party / Inside Out Free Download

    hoarsebox

    Regular listeners to my Culture Cafe show on DCUfm, will have heard me play Hoarsebox’s track Work Party, Heck Aisling even spent ages one night telling us how good they are. Now’s your chance to get some free music from the band.

    The band are currently in sunny climes in the US finishing their debut album which is due out in September. Hoarsebox are currently working with Dennis Herring who has worked with Counting Crows, Modest Mouse, Elvis Costello, The Hives, not bad names to namecheck.

    To get you familar with their sound, Hoarsebox are kindly giving away their Double A single Work Party / Inside Out .. all you have to do is join their mailing list..

    For some reason their nice widget doesn’t want to embed but you can get the tracks from their website: http://www.hoarsebox.com/

  • Morning Hush: Romance Single Review

    Morning Hush

    There seems to be a new breed of Irish band emerging with a more uptempo rock feel that want to take you by the shoulders and give you a good shake. Count Morning Hush in that.

    The Dublin based band have been around for a couple of years and are about the release their single ‘Romance’. The track kicks in immediately and the guitar/synth/bass rift get in your head and stay there. There’s nice vocal interaction between the male and female leads.

    The Goldilocks-esque refrain ‘Who’s been sleeping in my bed’ and chorus with memorable lyrics could easily make this track a live favourite as well as having a home on radio.

    The nice surprise about this two track single is the remix of ‘Romance’. While the first track is obviously a rock track, the Eberhart remix gives the track a life in a completely different genre. The remix is a complete reworking of the track and it seems to this listener that the only original music tracks used are the vocals. This has pumping bass and phat beats (always wanted to use that). Clubbers Delight.

    ‘Romance’ is released on June 4th with a gig in The Village

    5 out of 6

    http://www.morninghush.com

    This was written for MusicReviewUnsigned.com

  • Jester: See Saw Review

    I hadn’t heard of these guys before so who are Jester? Well, they’re a Tipperary band who have had two previous Irish Top 40 singles, namely ‘Maria’ and ‘Scream’. Their upcoming single ‘See Saw’ is due for release in July 2010.

    ‘Scream’ is a hard rock track with a slight punky edge. Some slight effects on Colin Dempsey’s vocals add a professionalism to the overall sound and feel of the track. Good musicianship, clever all round production, good arrangements and a thumping drummer could make this track one of the ones to watch on Irish radio this summer.

    If the guys are like this when recorded: live, I’d say you’d want to hang on to your hair!

    Pumping!

    5 out of 6

    www.myspace.com/jestermusik

    This was written for MusicReviewUnsigned

  • Sandi Thom: Live at Whelan’s, Dublin

    Sandi Thom At Whelans
    Sandi Thom At Whelans

    As someone who really only knew Sandi Thom for ‘I was I was a Punk Rocker’, I was pleasantly surprised by what the night at Whelan’s had instore.

    Starting off we had an acoustic performance by local act The PW Sessions. Not bad, I like their use of percussion, mixing it with vocal harmonies.

    Next up was Marcus Bonfonti, a guy who plays a mixture of blues and southern rock. Entertaining and funny as well as being a really good guitarist and vocalist. Great to see him acoustically like this but for some reason I could also see him fronting a band like The Black Crowes. I’d go see him again.

    First things first ‘Punk Rocker’ is total not what Sandi Thom is about. Her live set kicked off and to my surprise Sandi Thom is country.  We’re not talking Daniel O’Donnell country here, were talking the equivalent of Rascall Flatts, new American country. What’s more she’s damn good at it.

    Thom and her impressive band of musician’s play songs from her new album ‘Merchants & Thieves’ and was quite simply breathtaking. Why Thom isn’t or hasn’t been mentioned in the same sentence as Miranda Lambert, Terri Clark and Carrie Underwood is beyond me.

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