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  • Culture Cafe on RTÉ 2XM Show 24 Playlist and Podcast:04/01/2012

    Culture Cafe 24The first show of 2012! Here’s what happened:

    1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads

    2. Various Cruelties: Great Unknown

    3. Chat with Wayne from Hogan

    4. Hogan: 1, 2, 3, 4

    5. Maccabees: Pelican

    6. Lana Del Ray: Born To Die

    7. Goyte: Somebody That I Used To Know

    8. Ben Howard: Black Files (Nixon Remix)

    9. Chat with Frankie from The Hot Sprockets

    10. The Hot Sprockets: Cruisin

    11. Eugene MCGuinness: Thunderbolt (Recommended Free Legal Download)

    12. Chat with Sam from Keywest

    13. Keywest: Feels So Cruel

    14. Slow Moving Millie: Feels Like Heaven

    15. Born Blonde: Radio Bliss

    16. Clock Opera: Once and For All

    17. The Chakras: Build Me A Swan

  • Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 3 Playlist and Podcast

    Culture Cafe 3Enjoyed that! Thanks to all my guests and thanks to new contributor Kevin McCabe for the event guide.

    Here’s what happened:

    1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads

    2. Morning Hush: Tomorrow Never Knows

    3. Chat with Trisha Deery, author of Little Rosie Red

    4. Ceelo Green: You’re So Square

    5. We Cut Corners: Go Easy (Recommended Free Legal Download available from WeCutCorners.net)

    6. Chat with Peter McKenna, Stadium Director of Croke Park about Feverpitch

    7. Storyfold: The Battle

    8. Chat with Actor Demian Bichir about his current film ‘A Better Life‘

    9. Givers: Up Up Up

    10. Maverick Sabre: Let Me Go

    11. The Culture Cafe Event Guide with Kevin McCabe

    12. Patrick Wolf: House

    13. Chat with Louise Marlborough from PrettyvacanT Dublin

    14. Elbow: Lippy Kids

    15. Chat with Mark fromn the band Hogan

    16. Hogan: 1,2,3,4,

    This espisode was originally broadcast on August 10th and will be repeated on RTE 2XM on Sunday at 2100. RTE 2XM broadcasts online, on digital and on UPC channel 944.

    A podcast with all interviews is available below. Full Interview with Demian Bichir is available for download later today.

  • Hogan: 1,2,3,4! / Dance=Sex Review

    HoganA new two track from Hogan landed on my desk this morning! The follow up to ‘Five Years On’,  ‘1, 2, 3, 4,’ is an uptempo pop punk track with distorted guitars and quite a funky rhythm section. Where ‘Five Years On’ seemed to be a band battling to find where the fit, this firmly sits in pop/punk even though in a funky breakdown they proclaim to ‘have no genre cos they keep changing’. Overall it’s well produced, though the over distorted guitars get a bit much, especially when there’s a dreaded key change.

    ‘Dance=Sex’ is quite a funky uptempo track with effected vocals. No doubt in a live setting, the ‘Hey’ refrain should work well. Here though, it seems a little manic but it’s enough to drive the pop punkers into a frenzy.

  • Hogan: Five Years On Review

    five years on hoganHogan have been around for a few years now and have just released the album ‘Boom’ from which the single ‘Five Years On’ is taken.

    The single is an driving rock track that you can dance to and was produced by Greg Havers (Manics, The Lost Prophets, Melanie C).

    It is a grower and after a couple of listens the track does draw you in more. The first vocal line kind threw me off a bit with what seems to be a faux accent, perhaps trying bring the band into the Pop/punk market. Luckily this doesn’t arise later in the track.

    There’s some good musicianship and great drumming, going on this once Hogan find where their musical home is, they’ll be sorted. Should hear more of this around.

    Video after the break (more…)