Category: indie rock

October 8, 2006 / hugger / electronic

8 Ball – The Big Blue

8 Ball are one of the more interesting acts to emerge from Dublin in recent…

October 4, 2006 / hugger / indie rock

Some people reading this won’t have been around when the committed wasted long hours putting…

October 2, 2006 / hugger / indie rock

The Bravery were such an honest mistake. Their early singles were unconditionally fabulous but the…

September 26, 2006 / hugger / indie rock

There was a time about 2 years ago when it seemed that every essential new…

September 25, 2006 / hugger / chart

Wherein hugger places his smug indie head on the block and reveals the songs that…

September 17, 2006 / hugger / experimental

You can now buy this song and the rest of the album on our record…

September 17, 2006 / hugger / alt country

Not sure what it is about Jeff Tweedy’s band of rarefied musicians that keeps me…

September 12, 2006 / hugger / indie rock

There is something altogether heartbreaking about ‘Lone Wolf And Cub’, not exactly the band themselves…

August 11, 2006 / hugger / electronica

Tasty morsels from the land that made Richie Kavanagh a star. An occasional series that…

July 29, 2006 / hugger / indie rock

The Marbles were from Roscommon (cold is a good way to describe it) and amazingly…

July 10, 2006 / hugger / indie rock

Oh I know the auld line ‘my favourite track of the year’ gets bandied about…

June 23, 2006 / hugger / indie rock

Don’t let the fact that the three girls in Au Revoir Simone learned learnt the…