Tag Archives: Bell X1
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Tuesday Tracks: Your weekly new music discovery for Aug. 22
Kasbo, courtesy Olof Grind. R&B from IAMTHELIVING, Latin pop from Loyal Lobos, rap-rock from Oxymorrons, a paranoia-inducing Kafka-esque tale by Bell X1, disco pop by Hot Freaks and electronic dance tune by Kasbo makes our weekly list of favorite songs. IAMTHELIVING, “Can’t Be Replaced” — We start with British-Canadian…
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REWIND: How do you solve writer’s block? Listen to songs about it
Royce da 5’9, courtesy. Bad news: I am not doing another Halloween Month. I know, I know, I’m sad too. But after covering basically every angle of music last October, I’m running out of mountains to climb. And I need to save five songs until the last column of…
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INTERVIEW: Ireland’s the Coronas making the best of their situations with ‘True Love Waits’
Danny O’Reilly of the Coronas at a show in Wexford, Ireland in October 2019. Danny O’Reilly of The Coronas has been fascinated and inspired about how the Black Lives Matter movement has spread from the U.S. and throughout the world, including the tiny village of Dingle, Ireland, where he’s…
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Dermot Kennedy busks his way from Dublin streets to the mainstream
Dermot Kennedy at Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2018. Photos: Joaquin Cabello. Ireland has a long history of participatory musical expression. Do you play an instrument? Bring it to the pub and you could end up playing that night with the band. For the…
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Win tickets to Irish trio Bell X1 at The Chapel
Bell X1 9 p.m., Wednesday, March 1 The Chapel Tickets: $20-$22. Dublin mood-rockers Bell X1 return to the United States this month, supporting their seventh LP, Arms, and we’ve got your tickets to the show at The Chapel on March 1. As singer Paul Noonan told RIFF in October, Arms…
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Dublin’s Bell X1 finds new inspirations in human connections with ‘Arms’
There was a time, years before Ed Sheeran and Hozier ruled the Irish rock airwaves, when Bell X1 was seen as the primary contender to the throne of U2. With the international acclaim of their third album, 2005’s Flock, the Dublin band went from local favorite to U.K. powerhouse.…
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Review: Bell X1 flies high at Cafe Du Nord gig
Bell X1, Courtesy: Johnny Savage SAN FRANCISCO — With Bono focusing his humanitarian efforts on Africa, we should consider ourselves lucky we have our own Irishman to help out in America. Irish vacationers are now experiencing here the same thing that Americans were when they visited Ireland in the…
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Interview: Irish band Bell X1 rings in with its first U.S. tour
Bell X1, Courtesy: Johnny Savage This story originally appeared in the Oakland Tribune. Name an Irish rock band that shares its name with an American military airplane. Need help? This is a band that has sold out some of the largest venues on the Emerald Isle. The frontman’s first…
