Drop-d Gig Guide – March 25th
“Food, glorious food, something something, and mustard!” Oliver, the musical, a much better laugh than that miserable book by Dickens. Actually, everything Dickens ever wrote was pretty shagging...
View ArticleInterview: Comply or Die
Drop-d: Sixes/Three Suns was another development from Depths and another step forward for CoD, more forceful and certainly more dense and distilled. Is this a sign of things to come? Matt Crothers:...
View ArticleInterview: Three Hour Ceasefire
Drop-d: There seems to be a huge crossover of metal’s sub-genres in Three Hour Ceasefire’s music – elements of black, death and thrash metal seem to be perfectly balanced. Was that the idea heading...
View ArticleFour-Point Preview: Ind13pendence
The biggest date on the Cork music calendar rolls around again as Indiependence takes to Deer Farm in Mitchelstown for its biggest and best line-up to date by far. Without any further ado,...
View ArticleExclusive: Autumn Owls – Quarantine (Acoustic)
Hotly-tipped Dublin lads Autumn Owls have been in for warm critical greetings, with everyone from the Irish Times to Daytrotter giving them love for their genre-straddling, frankly jarring knack for...
View ArticlePalms – S/T
It comes as somewhat of a relief that a group comprised of members of Isis and Deftones can avoid the hype and bombast that surrounds such “supergroups”, and that’s the first thing that sinks in when...
View ArticleSlow Motion Heroes & Heirs to Everything @ The Bowery
Emerging from an extended break, Cork pop supergroup Slow Motion Heroes return on June 9th at the Bowery, Tuckey St. Having recorded new material in France last year, and off the back of the successes...
View ArticleExclusive: Only Fumes & Corpses – Selfish Act: Part II
It’s here. The second part of Only Fumes and Corpses‘ two-side broadside Selfish Act releases digitally on June 3rd thru Lockjaw Records, but you can listen to it here first! Weighing in at seventeen...
View ArticleAlright the Captain – Conversation Skills for the Socially Anxious
This is how Alright the Captain were meant to do it all along, live and dirty in a studio, in their element. Catching many a lustful listen with 2011′s polished long-player Snib, and relentless...
View ArticleDrop-d.ie is Dead… Long Live Drop-d Magazine
Unused attempt at a cassette logo for the site’s relaunch in 2010. In blogging as in life, honesty is the best policy. And if one is being honest, looking at our site and other social media pages,...
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