Just Mustard are releasing their debut album on May 2nd. It will be the first release from Pizza Pizza Records. Really exciting news for the Dundalk music scene...(all details in the link below)

#NowPlaying - The Voidz 'Virtue'. The new album, just out today. All the way from L.A.in the USA, run by the NSA, A-OK? Available via Cult Records & Sony Music Ireland. We're throwing an official 'Listening Party' this evening at 5pm. Just for the craic like. Serving free coffee + cookies.

David Bellew's headline gig & release of his new EP entitled 'Bang' is on Saturday 7th April (that's next week already!) in the Spirit Store. Great line-up on support too. Check out his single's video, directed by Tara Tine. Bellew is one of those never-give-up types who's constantly honing his craft into higher echelons. His positive energy and passion for music is infectious and this show will be well worth checking out....(more details in the link below)

OUT TOMORROW: Do you like a wee bit of surrealism in your music? The Voidz new LP 'Virtue' via Cult Records & Sony Europe. On sale tomorrow from 10.30am. This is the antimatter to the now-annihilated Strokes.

Last chance saloon to see Stephen Burns' take on old blue eyes himself, Mr Francis Albert Sinatra. Tonight at An Táin Arts Centre, tix €10. Come on, altogether - "You make me feel so young, you make me feel like spring has sprung..."

🌸 The Japanese Film Festival comes to An Táin Arts Centre again on Saturday 21st April, featuring two movies (details attached). はい、これに とてもわくわくするあなたの文化が大好きです

#NowPlaying - The Velvet Underground On Polydor Records, this is the self-titled third studio album VU. Released in March 1969, it was their first record with Doug Yule, who was a replacement for John Cale. Recorded in 1968 at TTG Studios in Hollywood, California, the album's sound—consisting largely of ballads and straightforward rock songs—marked a notable shift in style from the band's previous recordings Lou Reed the band's principal songwriter, said of the album: "I really didn't think we should make another White Light/White Heat. I thought it would be a terrible mistake, and I really believed that. I thought we had to demonstrate the other side of us. Otherwise, we would become this one-dimensional thing, and that had to be avoided at all costs. "Drummer Moe Tucker said, "I was pleased with the direction we were going and with the new calmness in the group, and thinking about a good future, hoping people would smarten up and some record company would take us on and do us justice." Doug Yule said the album "was a lot of fun. The sessions were constructive and happy and creative, everybody was working together." The Velvet Underground was the band's first album for MGM Records, its first two albums having been issued on Verve, an MGM subsidiary. The previously strong Andy Warhol influence is diminished,[according to whom?] with the most notable ties to the Factory being the cover and back photographs taken by Warholite Billy Name, and the opening track "Candy Says" about Warhol superstar Candy Darling (who reappears in Reed's 1972 song "Walk on the Wild Side"). The song was sung by Yule at Reed's insistence. The LP sleeve was designed by Dick Smith, then a staff artist at MGM/Verve, with Billy Name's photo of the band sitting sedately on a couch at Andy Warhol's Factory.

Ominous_Omin making his mark on the centre of Dublin. Great work Nagennif Yrrab!

Last night was one of those 'were you there?' nights rarely afforded to provincial back-waters outside Dublin. Last night was surreal, metaphysical almost. Last night was unforgettable. Oh, last night..... To be able to command 200 peoples attention for a full 2 hours without anyone checking phones or drifting into idle chit-chat is nothing short of a minor miracle in this digital age and all credit goes to both the organisers and the participants involved. We were just lucky to be in attendance... HUGE thank you to Grandson & Creative Spark for creating and hosting Put It On, a wonderful event in the perfect setting, the Spirit Store. MASSIVE thank you to the stellar cast: Brian Cross - a role model for anyone creative, retired, dead or alive; Niall McCormack (Hi Tone) - a fascinating insight into the world of record cover artworks; John Byrne (Quare Groove) - a lovely guy all the way from Cork with a unique taste in underworld Irish music; and to Brian McMahon aka BrandNewRetro - a true Dundalk man fighting our corner up there in Dublin, a creator, an originator and a great guy with a mountain of memorabilia. And of course, to TPM, The Band & Jinx Lennon for the great tunes. Of a Monday night!!! P.S. Here's some media coverage B+ has got recently; https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-world-of-music-stardom-through-the-eyes-of-the-photographer-b https://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/bjybaw/brian-cross-ghost-notes-interview-photos-rap

Tonight in our national capital at Tivoli on Francis Street, D8....An event organised by Selective Memory & Hidden Agenda headlined by the mad scientists of UK psych-rock Django Django and supported by Æ MAK. Best of luck to Aoife & her band tonight, it's truly inspiring to see a Dundalk band adventuring deep into Dublin's creative heart...