Download: Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream

From midday today EST US time (that's 5pm our time), you can download Bruce Springsteen's first single from 2009 album Working on a Dream. The free song of choice is the title-track, and is available from iTunes and through Bruce's own website here:
http://www.brucespringsteen.net/news/index.html

Get it here too:
http://www.pigeonsandplanes.com/2008/11/new-bruce-springsteen-working-on-dream.html

Listen: The Hives and Cyndi Lauper - A Christmas Duel preview

You've probably heard of the upcoming Hives and Cyndi Lauper Christmas Duel which will be made available as a free download this weekend (Thanksgiving in the US) from the Hives' own website.

It should be...interesting...

Check out a preview here:

Live: Papier Tigre at The Twisted Pepper

Great work from Sugarlips and the egocentric guys for setting this up. French phenomenon Papier Tigre are coming over to play Dublin's Twisted Pepper (on Abbey Street) for the relaunch of SugarLips.

The gig is on this Sunday, the 30th of November with support from Night on Earth and Realistic Train.

Watch 'Concrete Residential':

Live: Parts & Labor at CrawDaddy

Disappointed by the Dan Friel solo record this year? I was, but luckily Dan hasn't decided to give up the day job just yet. Parts & Labor are also due to play Dublin's Crawdaddy in 2009, two weeks before Jay Reatard, on February 15th.

Tickets cost €12.50! Yes, that's all! Oh, and they're on sale now.

Watch 'Fractured Skies' live:


You're in for a treat!

Live: Jay Reatard at CrawDaddy

Great news for all of us who actually bought tickets for Jay Reatard at Whelan's last weekend, his gig has been rescheduled for CrawDaddy next February. Tickets for Whelan's are still valid, and new tickets can be purchased as of now for a bargain €14.

The rescheduled gig will take place on February 27th. Another 2009 gig to look forward to!

Setlist: Death Cab for Cutie, Ambassador Theatre, Dublin, 13 November 2008

Employment Pages
Empty Room
New Year
Live Here
Crooked Teeth
No Sunlight
Grapevine Fires
Title Track
Soul Meets Body
I Will Follow You Into the Dark
I Will Possess Your Heart
Cath
Giants
Long Division
Settling
Marching Bands of Manhattan
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Brothers
Title And Registration
Expo '86
Transatlanticism

Watch 'When Soul Meets Body':

Best Albums of 2008: UCD University Observer

The first of the Best of 2008 lists from our native shores (well, first that I've seen, let me know if there's any others) comes from UCD's University Observer newspaper, in its o-two section.

Anyhow, they only have a Top 3 albums for 2008, but still it's pretty interesting to see ones this early.

1. Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
2. Bloc Party - Intimacy
3. Jape - Ritual

Nice to see one of our Irish acts make it, but to see Bloc Party this high on any list might indicate the fact that the writer has failed to listen to many of 2008's more hyped records, Fleet Foxes, Vampire Weekend, TV on the Radio and the like. Maybe I'm wrong. I'd love to see that writer give their perspective.

Now if only I could get the PDF download on their site to work, I'd be able to find out the name of that person!