By Rev Jules on 10/17/2007Seven years ago Sound Waves attended a music industry convention in France where DRM was the buzzword de jour. Today, its all change as Apple and Amazon slug it out over song offerings without copy protection.Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 10/10/2007The Radiohead launch on October 10th is going to be watched very carefully by their old label.Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 10/7/2007A spate of articles on the blogosphere point the finger of blame for the present slump in the music industry mainly on the shoulders of the internet but Sound Waves feels that commentators might be overlooking the obvious; the teenage girl with twenty quid in her jeans.Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 10/4/2007Phantom FM claims that they are out to provide, "a rock music format that thousands of Dublin radio listeners have asked for. Isolated by existing stations, our listeners have demanded choice and to hear new music". Sound Waves wonders whether this is US style radio in disguise.Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 9/13/2007The new Channel 6 surf show 'Cois Fharraige' (hmm, that name sounds familiar) has sent out brochures to advertisers seeking sponsorship. Sound Waves has the lowdown.Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 9/11/2007A timely article in The Sunday Times Culture section (9/9/2007) on the high profile failures of the Irish music industry leads Sound Waves to ask, "But why does anyone want 10 album releases by The Thrills when the first one was as good as it gets for the band?"Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 9/10/2007The Guardian today (10/9/2007) has a great article on the Christian Surfer movement.Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 9/3/2007Thanks to The Irish Times, y'all can get the lead single off Bruce's new album free as a download. Does it rock ? Yeah! Am I excited ? Yeah! Is he still the CEO of Rock? Yep!Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 9/1/2007Sound Waves has just got in some PR bumpf telling us that Ireland's First Surf & Music Festival has just sold out. Big deal but they did include the final line-up of acts. So, if you are going you should probably read the following. No, you don't need to thank me, it's all part of the Sound Waves Customer Service Charter. By the way, don't miss white hot UK act The Enemy.Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 9/1/2007Recent television coverage of the Tour of Ireland only confirmed the opinion of Sound Waves that Le Tour is still Le Tour.Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 9/1/2007It was a movement that began with Woodstock, rolling around in mud, listening to music of varying quality and being treated like a farmyard animal. Today, the options for wallowing in crap, listening to crap, eating crap, drinking (one brand) of crap and being treated like crap are greatly expanded thanks to the Irish music festival season and if the (non)reactions of Irish concert goers (with the noble exception of Barbara Streisand fans) is anything to go by, rock and rollers are happier to bend over and get stuck by the Man than do any sticking of their own. Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 8/27/2007Sound Waves is, to say the least, a little slow on the uptake of this wonderful songwriter. Anyway, here he is on TOTP performing' Trouble' solo and acoustic, no miming for this dude. Peace y'all.Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 8/22/2007The Rolling Stones keep on rolling...in cash.Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 8/20/2007Its been a slow week but here are some clips that have been bounced around or discussed by the guys in my surf crew, they are dumb and they are based around Star Wars, not much to do with surfing or music, or much else. This whole surfing culture thing is a lot more complicated than it looks you knowRead More » |
By Rev Jules on 8/20/2007If you think that My Bloody Valentine is the height of obsessive rock perfectionism in Irish music then think again as Sound Waves dials you in to the strange but true story of the musically gifted but doomed Galway band Tu Meni NotesRead More » |
By Rev Jules on 8/20/2007This guy was my choice for musician of the year on the Cluas poll a couple of years ago before he was nominated for a Mercury. Now, he is a big name and this is the video for his song 'Lady of The Sea', about a sunken ship. Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 8/17/2007She plays Dublin in the Tripod on 30th August, don't miss here. This is the video for her song 'Fidelity'Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 8/10/2007Will Ferrell is Sound Waves' favourite comedian but it appears he is also something of a muso so here, courtesy of YouTube, is a selection of his best musical moments.Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 8/7/2007He is from San Diego, he surfs, here is the video for his song 'Wordplay'. Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 8/7/2007Guinness have long been associated with surfing, in fact they even produced a small number of bespoke surfboards in the 1980s which are now collectors items, and of course as Aidan rightly pointed out, Christy Moore name checked one of their adverts in his song, "Delirium Tremens". Sound Waves looks at the best of them, 'Horses' by Jonathan Glazer.Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 8/3/2007Stuck in Dublin for the weekend, landlocked in Cavan, still want to go surfing? No worries, just try Urban surfing, the surfing you can do without leaving your flat. This video has all the angles on the latest craze in board riding.Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 8/2/2007Its the silly season and so we focus on the W's conversion to two wheels.Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 8/2/2007I don't know why people keep saying that RTE isn't good at comedy, Charity You're A Star 2007 is gold standard laughs and rugby hero Shane Byrne is in full touch down mode.Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 7/31/2007Billabong Jocks are God's way of telling you that you have too much money and not enough sense.Read More » |
By Rev Jules on 7/31/2007Surfing is commonly portrayed as a selfish pursuit but a new generation of Irish surfers is giving something back to those who need it most.Read More » |