Listen to Japanese Popstars live album "We Just Are".

Fresh from signing with Virgin Records the excellent Japanese Popstars have dropped their live album on us and you can listen to it here and now!
The tracklisting is as follows and if you like what you hear you can head straight here to own your own copy.


1. We Just Are (Intro) 2. Sample Whore 3. Rushed Jabb 4. Total Distorted Mayhem 5. F19b Droppin Dirty Beats 6. Benni Benassi 'Electro 16' (The Japanese Popstars Remix) 7. Facemelter 8. Catapult (Live Edit) 9. Kid Roppongi 10. B.C.T.T 11. Rise Of Ulysses (Live Edit)
Released 21 September 2009.

Photo's: You Me At Six live @ The Olympia, March 28th 2010

You Me At Six played a blistering sold out show in Dublin's Olympia Theatre on Sunday night.
Despite suffering from laryngitis, front man Josh Franceschi and the rest of the band brought it full throttle to an ecstatic crowd. Their setlist was made up of some old favourites from Take Off Your Colours but mostly consisted of tracks from their new album Hold Me Down with Safer To Hate Her, Liquid Confidence and the bodacious Underdog receiving ear splitting reactions.
Here are some photo's of the show.

Josh Franceschi

Matt Barnes

Max Helyer

Josh Franceschi

You can view more HERE

Hockey-Song Away Video

It's only a couple of weeks away until Hockey's debut album Mind Chaos FINALLY hits the shelves here in Ireland and in the UK and I must say it's a corker. Preceding that however is the release of their addictive new single Song Away. In the video they are doing it for the misfits of this world and feel good theme reflects the song perfectly. Enjoy!



Mind Chaos is out on Friday September 18th and you can catch Hockey live @ The Academy on September 22nd.

Empire Of The Sun-Standing On The Shore: Video

The kooky duo that make up Empire Of The Sun, Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore, out do their peculiarity in their new video Standing On The Shore. From dancing fish people to electricity shooting from Steele's very own hands it's quite charming and fantastic. The video was shot north of Perth, Australia and was directed by Josh Logue who also directed the video's to Walking On A Dream, We Are The People and Architecture In Helsinki's Like It Or Not.
Enjoy the next four colourful minutes.


Empire Of The Sun Album Review

Jamie T-Sticks n' Stones: Video

Former Mercury Music Prize nominee Jamie T dropped his debut Panic Prevention to the masses in January 2007 to much critical acclaim. It entered the UK chart at number four and this was bolstered by four top 20 singles including the very honest If You Got The Money. Preferring to sing in his natural and cheeky cockney accent, Jamie became quite recognisable instantly and now he back in August with his second LP, King And Queens which features vocals from Florence Welch (of Florence and The Machine fame) on an unnamed track. Running Ahead of this is the Sticks N' Stones EP, released on June 26th with the lead track being the obvious, Sticks N' Stones.
The video makes me want to throw a few stones...

Hockey & Passion Pit Live in Whelan's: Review

Last night a sold out crowd in Whelan's were treated to not one, but two sparkling performances from Hockey and Passion Pit. Hockey who are from Portland, Oregon opened the show with Work, one of their funk filled tracks from the forthcoming album Mind Chaos which gets it's release here in May.Work invited the audience into their set from the get go which in return, snowballed into a rapturous performance with the band performing the wonderfully spirited Song Away and soul driven 3am Spanish. By the time Hockey performed their current single and current band anthem Too Fake, the crowd were so enamoured by vocalist Ben Gruben's vivacity and panache that I thought Passion Pit had a tough one to follow if I am being honest.
So Passion Pit came on to the stage surrounded by keyboards, drums, more keyboards, Samplers, Synths and guitars. Their audience was a well warmed up mix of young and old(er) and I think every female in attendance fell a little bit in love/lust (just a little bit now), with lead vocalist Michael Angelakos for the simple fact that the songs that have captured their hearts were written for his girlfriend as a Valentines gift. Synth pop at its best, I've Got Your Number, kicked off proceedings in a sprightly fashion upping the tempo and sound of the night to eleven. Smile Upon Me and Better Things from the accomplished Chunk Of Change EP, also enchanted the crowd into some great sing-a-long moments while tune of the night was always going to be the hugely brilliant and popular Sleepyhead.

If you unfortunately missed either Hockey or Passion Pit then gladly you will get a second chance to catch both acts as Hockey have been confirmed for Oxegen and Passion Pit for The Electric Picnic, thanks Jim Carroll for this joyous news on a Monday morning.
Check back later in the week to hear what Hockey had to say when we met them for a coffee while they were in town.