• Watch: Princess – Black Window

    March 9, 2015 - By 

    One of our main 15 For ’15 acts, Dublin dream-pop Princess have unveiled the video for their new single, ‘Black Window’, an accompaniment that more than tips its visual hat to the disembodied female mouth in Samuel Beckett’s ‘Not I‘. In our post of the track last month, we called it “one of their shining moments to date, covering more ground in their perpetually evolving blend of shoegaze, krautrock and noise, as heard on the pair of singles and EP they’ve so-far released.” Princess play the following Irish dates in March and April: March 20: Whelan’s, Dublin March 28: TDC/Triskel, Cork April 11:…

  • Brilliant Corners Festival 2015

    March 9, 2015 - By 

    Presented by Moving On Music, Belfast’s Brilliant Corners jazz festival returns with an eclectic and comprehensively impressive bill from March 25 to March 28. Now in its third outing, the four-day festival will see local talent and international contemporaries including Dublin City Jazz Orchestra, Get The Blessing, Fred Firth and experimental guitar circle Sixes play in various Belfast venues such as The Mac, Crescent Arts Centre and the Black Box. Check out the poster and trailer for this year’s festival below and go here to buy tickets. You can also watch our very recent interview with Moving on Music founder Brian…

  • Belfast Film Festival 2015

    March 9, 2015 - By 

    Although the majority of the programme is yet to be revealed, the first few announcements for the forthcoming fifteenth Belfast Film Festival hints at yet another extremely promising festival in the making. Following a handful of great line-up events and screenings including Metropolis – Live at the Ulster Hall on Saturday, March 21 and Yann Demange’s ‘71 at the Movie House on Thursday, March 5, a live soundtracked screening of David Lynch’s landmark Eraserhead at The Mac on Wednesday, April 22 and a Blazing Saddles Night on Saturday on Saturday, April 18 stand out amongst the first few announcements. Check back for more screening announcements. In the…

  • Monday Mixtape: Ror Conaty (No Spill Blood)

    March 9, 2015 - By 

    Ror Conaty is currently drumming with cosmic heft overlords No Spill Blood and with Wizards of Firetop Mountain. Today, he shares a playlist of some heavy duty tunes he’s currently enjoying. In his own words: “These are songs I’ve been hounding on lately, some are better off heard in the context of the album like Clint Mansell or Swans but all of them psych me out, some for their intense drive or their ability to make me focus while making things and others for giving me that last shot of serotonin when I though I was empty.” No Spill Blood launch their debut album…

  • Stream: Tandem Felix – Nothing I Do Will Ever Be Good Enough

    March 9, 2015 - By 

    With a title immediately conjuring the titular despondence of The Twilight Sad or a Mark Kozelek album track, Dublin’s Tandem Felix have unveiled the mellow, Americana-tinged ‘Nothing I Do Will Ever Be Good Enough’. Having featured in the third issue of our monthly physical magazine, the band – sporting a new line-up and notable shift in sound – will release their new EP, Comma, on Trout Records on April 27. Read our feature on the label in the second issue of our magazine online here.

  • Watch: Documenta – Idle Hands

    March 9, 2015 - By 

    The video for ‘Idle Hands’, the first track from the new record by space-oriented drone pop outfit Documenta is now online. The rarely seen ensemble, led by singer, guitarist and songwriter Joe Greene, has already announced that there will only ever be three Documenta LPs, with only Drone Pop #2 having been given a full vinyl release so far. Their next album is to be called Drone Pop #1, and features songs – some of which are re-recorded – from the first CD-R the band released. The record should be available in July through new label Touch Sensitive Records. Watch the video for ‘Idle Hands’ below.

  • Download: Loud Mouth Compilation Volume 7

    March 9, 2015 - By 

    Covering a pretty broad spectrum of homegrown electronica, The Loud Mouth Collective have released the seventh installment of their compilation. Featuring the return of LM regulars Jon Candi, edit;erase, Intuitive Travels In Sound, Kali, Space Travelers, Plastic Rhythm and Haüer, the fifteen-track release also features tracks from newcomers Sun Mo, Mangetout, Kevin Aiken, Kubo, Basement Garcia, PolyGlove and Happiness Cage. The Loud Mouth Collective will team up with Bodytonic on March 21 to launch the compilation at Dublin’s Twisted Pepper. The night will include a live set by Warp’s Rustie and Costello, as well as DJ sets from Mangetour, Lui…

  • Stream: Naoise Roo – For You

    March 9, 2015 - By 

    Alternative singer-songwriter Naoise Roo unveiled yesterday – International Women’s Day – ‘For You’, the darkly atmospheric new single to be taken from her upcoming debut album, Lilith. Having debuted only last summer with powerful alt. rock free-download single, ‘Oh Son‘, Roo’s fire has lit up the local scene impressively quickly, with Lilith set for release on April 27 through Irish alternative & experimental label Little L Records. With only the layered-yet-stripped sound of ‘For You’ to go by, the album’s genre-spanning promises of ambient electronica, indie rock and burlesque could well show Lilith to be one of the great Irish breakthrough albums of 2015. Certainly this early on, her output is…

  • Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

    March 9, 2015 - By 

    THIS IS A TRUE STORY. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred. The preface of Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1996 dark comedy film, Fargo, is perhaps one of the most discussed in recent cinema history. Claiming itself to be based exactly on factual events, the authenticity of these opening lines has long been debunked as simply a device to set the tone. No big deal. Screenwriters have been bending the…