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• Tune of the Week - “Sisters Are Forever”

  November 27, 2008 @ 10:33 am | by Jim Carroll

  These are the very best of times for new music
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• Tune of the Week - “A Beautiful Mine”

  November 20, 2008 @ 9:49 am | by Jim Carroll

  Yep, I have the Mad Men bug too.
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• Tune of the Week - “This Summer Night”

  November 13, 2008 @ 1:34 pm | by Jim Carroll

  You dancing?
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• Tune of the Week - “Too Fake”

  November 6, 2008 @ 6:46 am | by Jim Carroll

  Yes, friends, it is time to start thinking about the bands of ‘09
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• Tune of the Week - “The ‘59 Sound”

  October 30, 2008 @ 10:18 am | by Jim Carroll

  Here’s one for the Springsteen and Replacement fans in the audience.
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• Tune of the Week - “Earwig Town”

  October 23, 2008 @ 9:17 am | by Jim Carroll

  Anyone else interested in seeing what’s going on in “Earwig Town”?
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• Tune of the Week - “Sleepyhead”

  October 16, 2008 @ 8:11 am | by Jim Carroll

  Meet your first favourite new band for 2009.
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• Tune of the Week - “Turn the Magic On”

  October 9, 2008 @ 9:26 am | by Jim Carroll

  At the time of writing, 157 Irish albums have been released in 2008.
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• Tune of the Week - “Need U Bad”

  August 14, 2008 @ 9:15 am | by Jim Carroll

  Once upon a time….
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• Tune of the Week - “On My Own”

  July 17, 2008 @ 9:43 am | by Jim Carroll

  The more you hear it, the more you dig it.
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• Tune of the Week - “Windu & Defrina”

  July 3, 2008 @ 11:59 am | by Jim Carroll

  The sound of the summer? That may well be White Shoes & The Couples Company
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• Tune of the Week - “Where Do You Run To”

  June 26, 2008 @ 9:44 am | by Jim Carroll

  It seems there’s a lot of love out there for The Vivian Girls and not just from Henry Darger fans.
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• Tune of the Week - “Heart’s A Mess”

  June 5, 2008 @ 9:11 am | by Jim Carroll

  His name is Gotye and he resides, oh yes, in a land down under.
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• Tune of the Week - “Sequestered In Memphis”

  May 22, 2008 @ 10:03 am | by Jim Carroll

  Hey kids, it’s The Hold Steady.
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• Tune of the Week - “War”

  May 1, 2008 @ 8:29 am | by Jim Carroll

  Meet my new favourite Mexican band. It used to be Molotov, but it’s now Chikita Violenta. And they sound mighty.
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• Tune of the Week - “Little Bit”

  April 17, 2008 @ 8:14 am | by Jim Carroll

  Lykke Li and pop music fit together like Sweden and Ikea.
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• Tune of the Week - “Sun Giant”

  April 10, 2008 @ 8:12 am | by Jim Carroll

  There’s nothing old-fashioned about a fantastic song and Fleet Foxes know all about fantastic songs.
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• Tune of the Week - “Sentimental Heart”

  April 3, 2008 @ 9:48 am | by Jim Carroll

  The She & Him album followed me around the United States for the last three weeks. Every record shop I went into, the album was sitting there in the racks. I finally gave in last weekend and bought it.
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• Tune of the Week - “I Like Music”

  March 6, 2008 @ 9:42 am | by Jim Carroll

  As Nas said, made you look. Yeah, it’s the Republic Of Loose. Do you have a problem with that?
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• Tune of the Week - “Astronaut”

  February 7, 2008 @ 8:19 am | by Jim Carroll

  Scroobius Pip can no do wrong, can he?
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