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With a name like The Minutes and a reputation for animated, hard-hitting riffs, it seems a little ironic that it took the Dublin rockers three years to follow their debut album with this latest contribution ‘Live Well, Change Often’. The band have slowly become heroes in their native land, and…

During the past year, writers, guest reviewers and photographers have been out covering gigs in cities from Melbourne to Glasgow, Austin to London for Live4ever as we paid witness to some of 2012’s biggest live music events, as well as some unexpected delights. Whether it’s four Manchester legends returning home…

After hitting Austin for the first time back in 2010 as a band with over a year’s worth of toil ahead of them before the release of their debut album, The Minutes returned this year with ‘Marcata’ now fully established as one of the best underground releases of recent times,…

Held at ND at 501 Studios, Live4ever’s Two Finger Salute II featured performances from Portmanteaux, PK, Golden State, Scoundrels, Pujol , And So I Watch You From Afar, The Minutes and new additions Cairo Knife Fight, who joined the bill late and quickly became one of the day’s undoubted highlights.…

Who: Mark Austin, Tom Cosgrave, Shane Kinsella Where: Dublin, IRE When: ND at 501 Studios, March 15th. 5pm sharp. Related news: Live4ever Interview: John Power of Cast Live4ever Interview: Shambolics Waxahatchee shares Bored video, summer UK tour dates…

Live4ever Media is returning to the South By Southwest festival, and this year we are delighted to be presenting bands from both sides of the Atlantic at our unofficial party. Related news: Live4ever Interview: John Power of Cast Live4ever Interview: Shambolics…

And so to the third and final part of Live4ever’s 2011 retrospective. A year packed with some genuinely outstanding releases, 2011 has enjoyed some of the most unanimously acclaimed records of recent years; PJ Harvey has won seemingly every award up for grabs thanks to ‘Let England Shake’, Kate Bush…

Well, it’s that time of year again when we here at the Live4ever Ezine begin to trail back through 12 months worth of musical delights in a vain attempt to group our favourites of 2011 into some sort of coherent list we like to call Live4ever’s Essential Listening. Over the…

On October 18th, Live4ever’s Official 2011 CMJ Showcase played host to a raucous celebration of rock n roll at the world-famous Brooklyn Bowl in New York. From the US, Fifth Nation, 1,2,3, Le Blorr and The Dirty Grand displayed emphatically to the packed crowd what the very best of new…

Antone’s. Austin, Texas. Tuesday, March 17th, 5.30pm. The Jim Jones Revue are tearing through closer ‘The Princess & The Frog‘, bringing not only their own set to an end, but a day of unashamedly anthemic British rock n roll as well. Previous storming, crowd pleasing sets by Doll…

The annual arrival of the Reading / Leeds Festival always signals the beginning of the end for another hectic season of UK summer festivals, and it usually helps each year to go out with a bang, and with a bill that packs in homecoming heroes, some of the US’ finest,…

Summer’s here and up and down the UK and beyond bands are hauling themselves through rain, mud, occasional sunshine and irritating TV presenters as another festival season gets in full swing. So with 2011 already careering towards July, it seems like a good time to sit back, take stock of…

It really is hard to believe that Irish rock’n’roll bandits The Minutes have been making a racket for most of the past decade considering how their long overdue debut came to be. In the span of five hysteric days the three Dubliners fried twelve tracks barely caged by thirty five…

Our Tracks rundown is brought to a close today with the likes of Pint Shot Riot, Alberta Cross, The Besnard Lakes and The Minutes all featuring in our final top 10. Once you’ve been through this part of our list, why not do us a favour and recommend your own…

The Minutes – ‘Fleetwood’ single released IRE: 10/09/1010 UK:13/09/2010 Related news:…

“You’re sexy bastards the whole lotta yiz!!” – lead singer, Mark Austin, humorously compliments an obviously impressed and packed BD Rileys crowd in Austin, TX as the band intro their last song of a short set – a set that proves all too brief. Amongst the live music chaos and…