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Sea Pinks release their new album this week, so they tell me about a song they love (by Arthur Russell), and you can hear a new track from it, as well as new music from Saint Sister, New Jackson, Swimmers Jackson, James Vincent McMorrow, Phoenix, and some Middle Kids, Pavo Pavo, Jealous Of The Birds, Youngblood, Gothic Tropic, Plastic Mermaids & Æ Mak. Strange Brew - indie beats, alternative rock...

Brian from So Cow tells me about a song he loves (by The Chills) and there's new music from Mount Alaska, Phoenix, Be Charlotte, Gothic Tropic, Fields, Aldous Harding, Liza Flume, Confidence Man, Pine The Pilcrow, Homeshake, Saint Caoilian, Homeshake, Elaine Mai & The National. Strange Brew - indie beats, alternative rock and good vibrations from the past, the present and the not too distant futur...

Loads of stuff this week. Saint Caoilian tells me about a song he loves (by Maggie Rogers), plus Mix & Fairbanks, The Dying Seconds, Come On Live Long, Elaine Mai, Bibio, BNQT, The National, RSAG, Deus and Sea Pinks! Sure, where would you be going? Strange Brew - indie beats, alternative rock and good vibrations from the past, the present and the not too distant future with gugai. Every Thursday n...

Tuam garage rockers Oh Boland tell me all about a song they love (by Guided By Voices), which is nice of them. New music abounds with Elaine Mai, Ships, King Bones, Silverbacks, JFDR, The Afghan Whigs, Car Seat Headrest, The Physics House Band, UNKLE, No Monster Club, plus some Lisa Hannigan and Slow Place Like Home. It's all go here on Strange Brew this week, so it is. Strange Brew - indie beats,...

Karl Blau tells me about a song he love, plus Ships, Daithi, Come On Live Long, Enemies, Elaine Mai and more! Strange Brew - indie beats, alternative rock and good vibrations from the past, the present and the not too distant future with gugai. Every Thursday night at Róisín Dubh, Galway, Ireland and every Friday at 9pm & Saturday at 7pm on 8radio.com. Strange Brew : Songs Of The Day playlist - ht...

Every week on the Strange Brew radio show, I have a chat with someone about a song they love, and everynow and then, I bundle them all into a collection like this. In #5, we have Elvis Costello, Philip King, Lisa Hannigan, TPM, Saul Williams, Soul Jazz Orchestra and Talos. Enjoy! Strange Brew - indie beats, alternative rock and good vibrations from the past, the present and the not too distant fut...

Rock photo hack par excellence Ruth Medjiber tells me all about a song she loves, and there's new music from Elaine Mai, Talos, Autre Monde, The Afghan Whigs, Daithi, Pillowman, Silverbacks, Mix & Fairbanks, Sea Pinks, plus some Bantum & Loah and an oldie from Spearmint, because why not? Strange Brew - indie beats, alternative rock and good vibrations from the past, the present and the not too dis...

Bitch Falcon tell me about a song they love (by Ho99o9), there's the new single from Kormac, Le Galaxie, Come On Live Long, some new No Monster Club, Diet Cig, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Conor O'Brien & Nico Muhly, Vagabon & Future Islands, and some tickets to see Joey Dosik. Sound. Strange Brew - indie beats, alternative rock and good vibrations from the past, the present and the not too di...

TICKET GIVEAWAYS!!! Plus, Search Party Animal are on hand to tell me about a song they love (spoiler : it's by Enemies, so that's cool), and loads of new music from the likes of Bitch Falcon, Talos, Count Vaseline, Floor Staff, Dream Wife, Flamingods, Vagabon, R.S.A.G., Augustines' William McCarthy's first solo track, Joey Dosik and an old track from Sophie that I love. Did I mention ticket giveaw...

Pleasure is the brand new single from Le Galaxie. Check it out. Also, you should check out new music from !!!, Future Islands, Ships, Autre Monde, Cinema feat. Chris Leech, Sufjan Stevens & Bryce Dessner &James McAllister & Nick Mulhy, Alt-J, Mount Eerie, Broken Social Scene's first song in seven years, a bit of old Okkervil River, and All Tvvins tell me about a song they love (it's by Smashing Pu...

The Sugarhill Gang are gentlemen, and when I met them, they told me about a song they love, and it's by Steely Dan. Who would have guessed? New music here from Daithi, Alex Cameron, JFDR, The Parrots, Perfume Genius, Cabbage, Soulwax, Ships and that gorgeous Elaine Mai remix of Sheets by Liza Flume. It's all go here at Strange Brew HQ. Strange Brew - indie beats, alternative rock and good vibratio...

Coming from SXSW this week! There's music from Joni, Julie Byrne, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Snail Mail, Sigrid, Jealous Of The Birds, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Sløtface, Delicate Steve, Middle Kids, Forth Wanderers, PWR BTTM, Odetta Hartman, Meilry Jones, Jay Som & Tei Shi, plus Sing Along Social's Aoife McElwain tells me about a song she loves. Tune into 8radio on FM on weekends in Februar...

Congrats to The Rusangano Family on their Choice Music Prize Win. We'll have some of that. New music also from The Afghan Whigs, Why?, Grandaddy, Eoin Dolan, Future Islands, Alt-J, Public Service Broadcasting, plus a bit of Bobbie Gentry and Rachel Sermanni, and Michele Stodard tells me about a song she loves (it's by Ani DiFranco). WIN TICKETS TO LIMMY. (Really this time) Tune into 8radio on FM o...

Every week on the show, I speak to someone about a song they love, and every now and then I put them together in a collection. Here's a collection of conversations with some very interesting people about songs they love. This one focuses on LOST IN FRANCE - the documentary about Chemikal Underground Records and the trip to Mauron, with Alex Krapanos (Franz Ferdinand), Emma Pollock (The Delgados),...

Tennis! There's new music by them, No Monster Club, Switzerland, Shookrah, Honeyblood, Future Islands... and some more Future Islands. Plus, some Emma Pollock, 'Allo Darling, Squarehead, Augustines, The Afghan Whigs, and We Cut Corners tell me about a song they love (it's a good one. By Lower Dens.) Tune into 8radio on FM on weekends in February & March on 94.3FM (Dublin), 105.5FM (Limerick), 106....

Not only did we find out what Bobby from No Monster Club's favourite song is this week, there's ALSO new music from Future Islands, Jens Lekman, Talos, The Courtneys, Ásgeir, The Moonlandingz, plus Daithi's awesome We$en remix, Porches, and And So I Watch You From Afar. Next week - I have tickets to see Limmy in Limerick, Cork & Galway to give away because I'm sound. Tune into 8radio on FM on week...

David Kitt tells me about a song he loves (it's by Cass McCombs), and there's a track off his new album, You, plus new music from Talos, Animal Collective, Come On Live Long, Pleasure Beach, Tayne, Why?, Real Estate, plus some Ports and The Redneck Manifesto! Tune into 8radio on FM on weekends in February & March on 94.3FM (Dublin), 105.5FM (Limerick), 106.7FM (Cork) and 87.7FM (Galway). Strange B...

If you've been up all night wondering what Scott from Frightened Rabbit's favourite song is, then you have come to the right place! You can also find some Mark Lanegan, Chicano Batman, ANOHNI, Father John Misty, Elaine Mai, London O'Connor, New Pope, The Ophelias and Malojian. Tune into 8radio on FM on weekends in February & March on 94.3FM (Dublin), 105.5FM (Limerick), 106.7FM (Cork) and 87.7FM (...

A quick and not altogether thorough look at some of my favourite non-Irish tracks of 2016, before I run out of time. Cass McCombs, Frightened Rabbit, Keaton Henson, The Goon Sax, Angel Olsen, Why?, Dan Deacon, DJ Shadow, The Avalanches, Leonard Cohen, JFDR, Dinosaur Jr., Pinegrove, Warpaint and Car Seat Headrest. Yup. That'll do for now. Strange Brew - indie beats, alternative rock and good vibrat...

A quick and not altogether thorough look at some of my favourite Irish tracks of 2016 - Le Boom, Toby Kaar, Oh Boland, Daithi, Enemies, We Cut Corners, Talos, Ships, Bitch Falcon, No Monster Club, Lisa Hannigan, James Vincent McMorrow, So Cow, Overhead, The Albatross and Elaine Mai. I ran out of time then. It's been a great year for Irish music.

A quick and not altogether thorough look at some of my favourite Irish tracks of 2016 - Le Boom, Toby Kaar, Oh Boland, Daithi, Enemies, We Cut Corners, Talos, Ships, Bitch Falcon, No Monster Club, Lisa Hannigan, James Vincent McMorrow, So Cow, Overhead, The Albatross and Elaine Mai. I ran out of time then. It's been a great year for Irish music.

If you ever wondered what February & Mars' favourite song is, then you're in luck this week on Strange Brew. Plus, a super remix of Wesen by Daithi, plus Belfast's Robocobra Quartet, that new song by Why? I really love, and some All Tvvins, Steve Mason, new music from Dublin label Popical Island's latest, Switzerland, some Welsh psychedelia, and more. Enjoy. Strange Brew - indie beats, alternative...

This week, I say goodbye to Allo Darlin' and Enemies, I get very excited about new songs from Why?, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Bad Sounds, Pale Rivers, Oh Boland, Brian Mooney, and some Talos, Deus, The Redneck Manifesto and The Low Anthem tell me about a song they love (it's by King Creosote, incidentally). Strange Brew - indie beats, alternative rock and good vibrations from the past, the present a...

Yup. At The Drive-In have new music out! So that's great. What else? Oh, some Frightened Rabbit, a great Fleetwood Mac cover by Tayne, The Redneck Manifesto, No Monster Club. Enemies have just released their latest, and final, album and it's great so let's have some of that. Also, Bad Sounds, The Lemon Twigs, Elaine Mai, Little Green Cars, Gavin Prior, and WHY? have a new album coming out, so let'...

Music? Loads of it. Elaine Mai, Eoin Dolan, Le Boom, And The Kids, Daithi, Mates Of State, Funeral Suits, John Grant, Grandaddy, Windings, Jape, Talos, and We Are Scientists tell me about a song they love. Strange Brew - indie beats, alternative rock and good vibrations from the past, the present and the not too distant future with gugai. Every Thursday night at Róisín Dubh, Galway, Ireland and ev...