Greenland Whalefishers

Finnegan's Wake Music — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:45:57 +0000

Greenland Whalefishers is a Norwegian folk punk band established in 1994, playing music influenced by celtic traditional music combined with British punk. The musical style of this type of music is also referred to as celtic punk and paddy rock…read more

Greenland Whalefishers – Johnny Lee Roth Live at Ricks Consert Hall

The Sultans of Ping FC

Finnegan's Wake Music — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:17:21 +0000

The Sultans of Ping FC are an Irish band formed in 1988 by Niall O’Flaherty, Pat O’Connell, Paul Fennelly and Ger Lyons. The band’s name is a play on the Dire Straits song “Sultans of Swing”, dating from a time when “it was sacrilege to say anything whatsoever funny or nasty about Dire Straits”.

Following a number of line up changes the band came to the attention of the UK and Irish music press, when the humorous pop-punk song “Where’s Me Jumper” was released. After several other independently released singles, the band signed to Epic Records, through a deal organised by Rhythm King Records’s Martin Heath.

With Epic, the band released their debut album Casual Sex In The Cineplex, and its follow up Teenage Drug. Already a cult hit in the UK, by this time The Sultans Of Ping were also becoming popular in Japan, with many tracks gaining release in that market only. The latter album was called Teenage Planet Sexy War in Japan, and included the single “Michiko”…Read More

Sultans of Ping FC Facebook

Sultans of Ping – veronica, Limerick December 2010

Pussy Riot

Finnegan's Wake Music — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:47:42 +0000

All-girl Russian punk band rages against Putin
Jan 26 01:45 PM US/Eastern

Wrapped up against Russia’s midwinter in vivid balaclavas, brightly coloured minidresses and not much else, eight members of an all-girl punk group stood on a platform in Red Square and started an impromptu show.
“Riot in Russia!” they screamed, before taunting Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and urging Russians to hit the streets in protest.

The band, Pussy Riot, has been gaining Internet notoriety after their January 20 gig of sorts, the latest in a string of impromptu performances to protest Putin’s candidacy for the presidency.

The radical feminists’ eyecatching show in front of Saint Basil’s Cathedral lasted mere minutes, but long enough for them to let off smoke flares, wave a flag and strum an unplugged guitar. Police let the women play a short song lampooning Putin — twice — before detaining them…READ MORE

Группа Pussy Riot жжет путинский гламур

The Blind Owl Band

Finnegan's Wake Music — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:34:56 +0000

SARANAC LAKE – For newcomers to the Blind Owl Band – a hard-driving, heavily bearded, original string music quartet that’s caught the ears of music aficionados from across the North Country – there are a few ways to tell the group’s story.

For starters, there’s the bit about how the band – which consists of Eric Munley (mandolin, vocals), Arthur Buezo (guitar, vocals), James Ford (banjo, vocals) and Christian Cardiello (bass) – got its name.

“We were at Paul Smith’s College, and we just finished playing a song, when this bird slammed into a window,” Munley said during a recent interview with the Enterprise. “It was a saw-whet owl. It got up and just stared at us for 45 seconds or so, then it took off. And one of the nicknames for a saw-whet is a ‘blind owl.’”

The Blind Owl Band — Revolving Door

Colorblind James Experience

Finnegan's Wake Music — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:00:21 +0000

Colorblind James Experience were an alternative roots/pop/rock band founded in 1980 in San Francisco, California . Bandleader and singer/songwriter/guitarist “Colorblind” James Charles Cuminale was originally from Rochester, New York but assembled early versions of what would become the Experience in Oswego, New York before relocating to San Francisco.

After a couple years of mixed results there, the band regrouped and moved again, this time back to Rochester which remained its home base until Cuminale’s premature death in 2001. The band enjoyed brief fame in the UK and Europe after BBC DJ John Peel gave the Experience some exposure, and their music has made a deep and lasting impression. Their “Dance Critters” single reached number 10 on the UK Indie Chart, while their albums Colorblind James Experience and Why Should I Stand Up reached numbers 5 and 13 respectively…

Their line-up changed repeatedly over the years, and their third album was released under the name of Colorblind James and the Death Valley Boys

Chuck Cuminale unexpectedly died of an arhythmia in July 2001.

Colorlind James Experience played the Finnegan’s Wake Music Festival in 2000′

The Late Colorblind James at the Grassroots Festival 1996

1983 Series on the Punk Rock Movement

Finnegan's Wake Music — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:45:06 +0000

1983 Punk Rock Series on KTTV Channel 11 News. 5-day look at the Punk Rock Movement from England to Los Angeles starting in the late 70′s. This is part 1 of a 5-part series aired nightly one week in 1983 on the Los Angeles Channel 11 News.

1983 Punk Rock Series On KTTV Channel 11 – Pt. 1

never a dull moment on the nyc subway

Finnegan's Wake Music — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:36:09 +0000

This via Corey Doctorow

In this video from the NYC subway, a singer named Jessica Latshaw, bearing a small uke, finds herself sitting across from a gentleman with a fine pair of bongos. The two begin an impromptu jam session, emceed by a random gregarious stranger and captured for posterity by a subway rider with a camphone. The performance is just fine, and it’s clear from the footage that the rest of the car is having a fine time.

In theory, it’s possible that the whole thing is a fix, “buzz marketing” from Latshaw and co, and if so, well, it’s an extraordinarily nonobnoxious example of the form.

okay- what you are about to watch is a true new york experience. what originally started out as a typical nyc subway ride (sitting across from guy who smelled like urine) turned into an awesome performance by two people who have never met before. i captured the whole thing on video.

never a dull moment on the nyc subway (Thanks, z7q2!)

Watch it on You Tube: 2P-i_5skhsU

The Atlantic Pirates

Finnegan's Wake Music — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:01:37 +0000

The Atlantic Pirates are an Irish folk band. There isn’t much information available on the band — however the comments on this video are insightful…

“`you are a liar as useual your probably a fat middle aged impotent and lets not forget jelous person who hasnothing better to do than abuse people i am playing in taffes or garavans every weekend bring your wife so i can give her a good seeing to when im done kicking you up and down the street you dont now any of the kelly family they wouldnt even assosiate with a bastard like you and the only tumor i have is rotten little fuckers like you go and crawl back into your hole small boy”

Atlantic Pirates … “Raglan Road”

Sweeney’s Men

Finnegan's Wake Music — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:09:18 +0000

Sweeney’s Men was an Irish traditional band. They emerged from the late 1960s Irish roots revival, along with groups such as The Dubliners and the Clancy Brothers. The founding line-up in May 1966 was ‘Galway Joe’ Dolan, Johnny Moynihan and Andy Irvine. The band experienced brief popularity, with their first and second singles hitting the top ten in the Irish charts. In June 1967, Dolan decided to travel to Israel to fight in the Six Day war and was replaced by Terry Woods. At the time, they played the tin whistle, concertina, harmonica, guitar, mandolin, banjo and bouzouki. This line up recorded their first full-length album, “Sweeney’s Men” in 1968. Andy Irvine left the band in May 1968, to travel Eastern Europe. He was replaced by Henry McCullough, who had been repatriated to Ireland while on an Eire Apparent tour, due to visa problems. McCullough played electric guitar, and his tenure saw the band explore more progressive, psychedelic territory. McCullough left in July 1968 to join Joe Cocker’s Grease Band, and was briefly replaced by Al O’Donnell. It was a duo of Woods and Moynihan who recorded the band’s second, and final, album “The Tracks Of Sweeney, released in 1969. Shortly after this release, the band broke up, on 22 November 1969. A reunion almost occurred in 1970 or 71, with Ashley Hutchings joining on guitar, but it didn’t happen. Sweeney’s Men did play a reunion show in 2007.

Read the entire story on Wikipedia

Sweeney’ Men – Sally Brown (live 2007)

Profile of Johnny Moynihan and Sweeney’s Men from The BBC Documentary Folk Hibernia

TV on the Radio

Finnegan's Wake Music — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:07:55 +0000

TV on the Radio is an American art rock band formed in 2001 in Brooklyn, New York, whose music spans numerous diverse genres, from post-punk to electro and free jazz to soul music.

The group has released several EPs including their debut Young Liars (2003), and four critically acclaimed studio albums: Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (2004), Return to Cookie Mountain (2006), Dear Science (2008), and Nine Types of Light (2011).

For the bulk of their existence, the core TV on the Radio lineup has been Tunde Adebimpe (vocals/loops), David Andrew Sitek (guitars/keyboards/loops), Kyp Malone (vocals/guitars/bass/loops), Jaleel Bunton (drums/vocals/loops/guitars) and Gerard Smith (bass/keyboards) as official members. Smith died from lung cancer on April 20, 2011. The band has replaced Smith for their current tour but have not yet announced their long term plans as a band without him…read more on Wikipedia

TV On The Radio – Wolf Like Me ( Live on Letterman ) HD & in sync