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Competition Closed: Bill Coleman, New Album, Unique Artwork

  By Éilish Burke | October 15, 2010 - 1:35 pm | Competitions, Music
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Bill Coleman is a Cork musician determined to do things for himself. A prolific writer he’s self-releasing his second album “You Can’t buy Back Your Life” today and we’ve got 3 copies to give away to you lucky Culch readers! Coleman decided to forgo the traditional label route and produce a limited edition run of 2,000 CDs with handmade artwork. The result is that each CD is completely unique. Check out the nifty video below which will give you a taste of Coleman’s musical style and which compresses the artwork creation process into 3-and-a-bit minutes. Bill also talks about the project here. Given this level of focus about his artwork, it’s no surprise to learn he is equally determined to do-it-himself when it comes to the music. Recorded in a home studio, the sound is a mixture of handclappy indie pop and slower, more heartfelt songs. Comparisons with Damien Rice … There’s more →

Music News: Itteh Bitteh Hipster Kitteh’s Weekly Roundup

  By johnmfinn | June 2, 2010 - 9:17 am | Music
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New Releases Windsor for the Derby exist “in a world of slow movements” and “represent slow music”. I don’t know what that means but I swear to God that’s what they say in the press release. They even put the slow in quotation marks. Maybe they play all their songs at half speed, maybe they take a while to grow on you or maybe they just aren’t that bright, you can decide which kind of “slow” they are when they release new album ‘Against Love’ on June 18th. Here We Go Magic were formed “through a series of chance encounters, overheard conversations and supernatural occurrences.” Their first release was a “collection of unique 4-track recordings” and they have developed “an explosive live sound all of their own.” Honestly of those last two sentences I find the one that contains “supernatural occurrences” easier to believe but we’ll find out when ‘Pigeons’ … There’s more →

Music News: Itteh Bitteh Hipster Kitteh’s Weekly Roundup

  By johnmfinn | May 24, 2010 - 11:30 am | Featured Post, Music, The Culch
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New Releases M.I.A will release her new album ‘/\/\/\Y/\’ in Ireland on the 9th of July, and no that’s not some weird glitch on Culch.ie the album is actually titled ‘/\/\/\Y/\’. In another seemingly random amalgamation of letters and symbols XXXO will be the first single. http://www.miauk.com/ Thought you had heard the last of Oasis? Not by a long shot. They are releasing a new singles collection on the 11th of June. ‘Time Flies… 1994-2009’ features all of the band’s singles. Unfortunately Oasis “will not be available for interviews” as they split up last year. http://www.oasisinet.com/ I consider Neil Hannon to be the anti-Bono, in that he is witty and a good songwriter and he doesn’t have his head shoved up his own arse and I don’t hate him. If you also don’t hate him you may be happy to know that The Divine Comedy will release new album ‘Bang … There’s more →

Music News: Itteh Bitteh Hipster Kitteh’s Weekly Roundup

  By johnmfinn | May 16, 2010 - 4:13 pm | Music, The Culch
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This is the first of John Finn and the Itteh Bitteh Hipster Kitteh’s weekly music news column. Check out the music news, new videos and gig updates. If you would like anything included, please let us know. contact[at]culch[dot]ie - Darren Operator Please describe themselves as “Everyone’s favourite Australian baroque-pop collective”, personally I can think of two or three other Australian baroque-pop collectives that I prefer but if they are indeed your favourite Australian baroque-pop collective then you will be excited to hear that they are releasing their new album ‘Gloves’ on May 28th on Brille Records. The single ‘Back and Forth’ is out May 21st. http://www.operatorpleaseband.com/ Bombay Bicycle Club will release their second album ‘Flaws’on the 12th of July. Coming just a year after the release of their debut ‘I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose’ ‘Flaws’ sees the London boys growing beards and donning flannel shirts, at … There’s more →