The headline acts for this year’s Heineken Green Energy festival in Dublin Castle (first weekend of May) have been announced (in case you missed it yesterday) and by the looks of things it’s shaping up to be another great weekend of music.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will headline on May 3rd, Soulwax will take […]

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The 39th Sound System Podcast has been released and features a host of chat ranging from Jeremy Beadle’s unexpected (to us) death yesterday, to the opening of Kilkenny’s new pole dancing club, to the Irish Blog Awards, CreativeCamp, gigs in Kilkenny and the lack of them in January and a load more.
There’s also a podcast […]

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Great video, great tune, nominated (in a roundabout way) by @johnnypez.
Tip of the hat to you sir.
Born in Paris 30 years ago, she (she being Yael Naim) spent most of her youth living in Israel. ‘New Soul’ is available to buy as a single on Amazon and iTunes and you’ll also find Apple using it […]

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Show 39 of the Sound System Podcast is on the way, hopefully at some stage tonight. I’m in the revamped Studio B which has just got a new ProTools setup and some big ass monitors and I’m trying to get to grips with ProTools!
I’m an Adobe Audition man at heart, ProTools definitely being Daw’s baby […]

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For your midweek viewing, here’s some Feist with ‘I Feel It All. Check out the official website. Any chance of Feist appearing with Broken Social Scene in Vicar Street in May? Who knows…

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As the podcast starts to grow and the weekly numbers in terms of listeners and downloads starts to grow, we’ve changed the Sound System Podcast website to pack a little more punch.
Gone is the old grey and in come the racing stripes and a little more organisation. We’ve added a player similar to the KKM […]

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Take a journey into the world of the House Of Cosy Cushions with ‘Palace For The Lost Ones’, taken from the EP of the same name. The band will be appearing at a PATPH gig in Cleere’s on February 9th. See them on MySpace as well.

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2FM announced earlier today their ‘Hope For 2008′ nominees for the Meteor Awards, with listeners to the station having the final say on who will win.
Nominees include The Kinetiks, who will be seen in Kilkenny shortly with Saving J, alongside Leanne Harte (no stranger to Kilkenny), Ham Sandwich, We Should Be Dead and Owen Brady.
Via […]

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Almost 27 years old is this video! After listening through some Duran Duran stuff over the weekend, I thought I’d pull this classic out of the bag to start off your Monday morning.

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There’s a few people who are known for lurking around KKM’s homepage late at night… they know exactly who they are and given there’s a bit of a house party on somewhere, this is just for them.
Yep.
Justin.
Well late and all, consider it “video of the night” instead

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