(Originally posted on arthub.ie) I caught the launch of the Weatherman EP by Dundalk group Boy Lights Fire last Friday in Tower Records. Granted I was there a little bit by accident checking out some music, but it was a fantastic performance none the less. Their sound grabbed me immediately, enough to have me purchase [...]
Today I made my first post to this blog in nearly 2 months. Reflecting that inactivity, the post consisted of a podcast recorded on June 12th for Dirty Radio… old news. So what has been happening and why has it taken so long for the In The Black Box beast to reawaken and write these [...]
The work of Kate Tempest was brought to my attention the other day. It was one of those moments when you hear something for the first time that is so good that you have to take a second and listen again to make sure that you heard it right the first time.
I was devastated with the news of Clarence Clemons’ death. It was sadly another great loss to the music world in a matter of weeks with Gil Scott Heron passing in May. I was not in the mood to write another post about yet another great musician being taken before his time. So I let [...]
So it has been over a week since the last post. Been very busy here in the Black Box working on a little bit of everything. The fact is that while blogging is great and all I still gotta get my hands on a bit of bread in order to feed the music-habit.
June 17, 2011 Because I am sadly unable to be in two places at once I only made it to the second half of this gig. I was raging because it was clearly not one to miss judging by the frantic dancing and copious amounts of glow sticks that greeted me as I eventually made [...]
I just heard this huge new release from Irish electronic act Le Galaxie* over on the quality blog Harmless Noise. Laserdisc Nights II is the debut album from the four man group (Alastair, Anthony, David and Michael) and will be launched this Friday (June 17th) in the Workman’s Club in Dublin. It is however already [...]
Finally after months of work and weeks of late nights the Visualisations for the Waves EP are complete! These videos finish off the Waves EP mini-project that has kept me busy over the past couple of months. The EP was released in May and has proven popular with bloggers and listeners alike around the globe. [...]
I’ve been enjoying NTS Independent online Radio for some time now… well for as long as it has been going over the past few months. You can be sure to click onto it at any point during the day and hear something that will either surprise you in a pleasing way, or please you in [...]
This is a short film, created by Chris Abbas using real photographs taken by NASA’s Cassini Mission probe that has been sent out to discover the secrets of Saturn’s rings and Moons.
As planned the first of a range of videos to be released this Summer is ready for your eyes. Just like everything In The Black Box is working on, this video was created over a long period of time in tandem with the music, and like the music is comprised of a wide range of [...]
Just turned my ears on to this latest release from The 2 Bears, the Bear Hug EP. I instantly fell in love with this duo’s music when I heard “Be Strong” on the radio one day. It had that unforgiving early 90s house honesty with a modern twist. It was simply a proper house groove [...]
I am writing this after hearing the terrible news that The People’s Poet, the irreplaceable Gil Scott Heron has died at the age of 62. I will probably add to this tomorrow when I have had time to get together a proper post about this incredible legend of music and writing. However in the mean [...]
OK so it has been a week since I last posted here, needed to put the feet up for a few days and enjoy a hard earned break. No better time to return than on the occasion of the 85th Birthday of the late, great Miles Davis.
After posting about the crazy short and random teaser by Bon Iver a month or so ago it is nice to finally hear something substantial from the upcoming release by the artist that everybody loves to love.
How about a bit of lo-fi shoegaze? Yes I know, that is exactly what you were looking for. It has most certainly been awhile since that specific genre of music has appeared on this blog… that length of time being never, in fact… but after this gem of a tune landed in my inbox I [...]
