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The wonderful Juana Molina will release her fifth album entitled Un Día in October and has announced another Irish date in Crawdaddy on the 9th October to follow her appearance at Electric Picnic. Tickets €17/€22.50 available from Ticketmaster, Road Records, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets. …

State Magazine has a pair of weekend passes to the sold out Electric Picnic to giveaway with thanks to the Southern Comfort Crawdaddy Stage. Southern Comfort is delighted to announce its triumphant return to Electric Picnic 2008, as the Southern Comfort Crawdaddy Stage gets set to bring a truly diverse line-up to the festival. …

Skream, Plastician, Safety Boy are the three dubstep artists chosen to play the Spiegeltent in Iveagh Gardens for the Dublin Fringe Festival on Friday 12th September. The night is billed as “An Introduction to Dubstep”. Doors – 9.30pm Tickets €20 (inc. …

your Twitter communications inside your Wordpress Dashboard MP3 Hugger has Little Boots doing a cover of My Rolex. This girl is a-rocking. Via Elana, this is a screwed up Cake Wreck. Alexia got her O2 iPhone but not without even more bother. My Morning Jacket play Kilmainham on October 29th, oh yeah and yer man Seasick Steve will do the warm down after… Cathal shows how insanely civil serviced the new An Post mobile top up is. Paul points out an interesting report commissioned by An Post about direct mail marketing.

2008 has seen them perform on Jools Holland, David Letterman & Johnathan Ross.  They have also played every major festival this side of the Atlantic and even performed at our very own Oxegen to very warm reviews. The charts are absolutely saturated with Indie Pop at the moment with artists like ‘The Ting Tings’ everywhere but ‘The Black Kids’ stick out as the finest and their sound is uncomparable.  The Black Kids are here to stay and not some

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Messiah J and the Expert offer first listen to a track from their forthcoming album From the Word Go. The video is just for eye candy. Top tune especially the outro. The album is out in October. More deets. Downloadable here.

Tickets go on sale on Wednesday 13th and are €29 each. I will be going. Who’s joining me? Let me know and we can all make a night of it. More info on Duke’s website or on State.ie

some sublime footage of a recent Sigur Ros gig at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. MoMA is a fantastic space as it is without Sigur Ros showing up to perform, so you can only imagine how special an evening this was. Those lucky, lucky bastards. Seriously, I urge you to get this 46-minute gig

I love how this has caused a furore over here. It’s just a music magazine (albeit now at a cheaper €4.95) with a FREE CD featuring Heathers, Fight Like Apes, Adebisi Shank, Halfset, The Jimmy Cake, Mumblin

Log-O’-The-Web. Some nice pics from Tom via his Flickr, too. He’s off back down to Dublin in September for that city’s premier new-band showcase festival, Hard Working Class Heroes. Check out the stellar lineup! The Terribles Featured on Rumblefish Sonic-branding company Rumblefish recently featured The Terribles “Mistake-Do Over” E.P. on their Music Licensing Store (musiclicensingstore.com). Penny partnered with Rumblefish to help connect our catalog to

. In Limerick. The iPhone is a douche. Via Marie. The Big Bang Festival of Rhythm kicks off tomorrow. Muzu, a new music video site where artists can set up a channel and get a slice of advertising revenue. Via State. Will this make a jot of difference to HMV’s sales? The latest Hitwise top ten social network stats for the UK, where the top five make up 15% of all Internet visits. 15%!

currently up on the State site for free download which is a fantastic idea and should be continued on while the mag is running. State Magazine #1 (April 200 A4 professional magazine circa. 100 pages, full colour Download Here State Magazine #2 (May 200 A4 professional magazine 100 pages, full colour Download Here