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ASKING ‘WHAT is your favourite Weezer album?’ is like asking ‘What is the best Breeders album?’ Though both bands have released many, most fans prefer the first two.

FANS OF AMERICANA are in for a treat at the Roisin Dubh with Rhode Island band The Low Athem playing at the intimate venue on Saturday week, June 16. Formed in 1006 by Brown University students and part-time DJs Ben Knox Miller and Jeff Prystowsky, the band made their mark with their 2007 debut album What the Crow Brings. Drawing on their background in classical music, they widened their instruments and sound to include everything from WWI- era pump organs to crotales (a form of antique cymbal). With the addition of new member Jocie Adamas in 2007, the band began 2008 in remote Block Island off the coast of New England.

Tuesday September 6 will be etched in the diary of music fans all around the west as the Roisin Dubh welcomes new music sensations The Vaccines. This gig, starting at 9pm, has been rescheduled from March and aficionados will be hoping it is worth the wait. Drawing comparisons to The Jesus & Mary Chain and The Ramones, they describe their influences as "'50s rock 'n' roll, '60s garage and girl groups, '70s punk, '80s American hardcore, C86 and good pop music."

Galway pop-punk power trio Mugger Dave have just released their debut album What’s She doing Here? and will play The Stables, Mullingar on Friday June 4.

GALWAY POP-punk power trio Mugger Dave have just released their debut album What’s She doing Here? and it will be officially launched with a gig upstairs in Kelly’s, Bridge Street on Friday April 16 at 8.30pm.

This Friday night sees KilkennyMusic.com mark their return to the live music scene for 2010 as they host Galway's Mugger Dave along with Kilkenny's Little Black Wren, Eoin Macnamara and Kieran Byrne for the launch of this year's One Take Sessions series.

The phone picks up and (in an admittedly biased way) I am expecting the sound of a laid back, overly blinged out, slightly arrogant musician. What I am not expecting is the polite, bubbly, and energetic Dublin accent that comes down the telephone line at me. It hardly paints a picture of your stereotypical hip-hop/rap star. But then again Messiah J & The Expert are hardly your stereotypical hip-hop duo.