We gently implore you to check out Poor Creature’s highly-anticipated debut album All Smiles, remixes of ØXN’s Cruel Mother by DROKK and Ben Frost, the latest single from NewDad’s just-announced second LP, essential new NewDad, Talos & Olafur Arnalds, Fierce Shook and more. Poor Creature – All Smiles Tonight All Smiles Tonight by Poor Creature ØXN – Cruel Mother Remixes ØXN – Cruel Mother by ØXN Hamer Place – All That I Knew Was Blue All That I Knew Was Blue by Hamer Place NewDad – Rooibos Talos and Ólafur Arnalds – A Dawning Fierce Shook – Up and Down…
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In this episode, the final in the series, we meet Laurie Shaw. Laurie’s been producing albums at a prolific rate for many many years and in this interview, we talked about the 2022 release Sceptre, focusing on the album’s lead single ‘Captain’s Log’. A loose, swashbuckling song, ‘Captain’s Log’ gave us an opportunity to chat about Laurie’s approach to DIY recording, how he visualises his albums, and when all’s said and done – trying not to be worried about it too much. You can support Laurie’s music here: https://laurieshawofficial.bandcamp.com/ Tracklisting: 1. Captain’s Log 2. S Club Party (by S Club…
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Lucy Dacus live at the Iveagh Gardens in Dublin with support from Jasmine.4.t. Photos by Erin Plaice
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In this episode, we talk to Philip Christie of The Bonk about their song ‘Future 87’. First released in May 2022 and featured on their excellent LP – and our album of 2023 – Greater Than Or Equal To The Bonk, we’ll hear about how the song evolved from a jam committed to a 4-Track Tape in 2017, as well as looking at the limitations and creative decisions that shaped the recording. You can support The Bonk’s music here: https://thebonk.bandcamp.com/ Tracklisting: 1. Future 87 2. Think (by James Brown) 3. Crazy He Calls Me (by Billie Holiday) 4. Thick Lines…
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A night of heavyweight pop and funk at Malahide Castle in Dublin courtesy of Duran Duran, Nile Rodgers and JC Stewart. Photos by Matt Gorman.
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Across the island, we’re absolutely spoiled for world-beating festivals that marry place with purpose. From the Atlantic coast to deep city venues, Ireland continues to conjure immersive events that defy template. Common Threads, returning to the Burren this October, is once again throwing its hat into the ring with something quietly radical. Now in its third year, the festival is a three-day trail of music, art and discovery set in the singular surroundings of North Clare’s Burren. Running from 10th-12th October, it brings together a wide-ranging cast including Martin Hayes, Morgana, Daithí, RÓIS, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Lullahush, Bantum, Aindrias…
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It’s been a little while since we last heard from Deadman’s Ghost – the boundary-dissolving project of Belfast sound artist Jason Mills – but his return is nothing short of spellbinding. Having released some masterfully shapeshifting LPs, among them Hypocratical Oath, Saccadic Rhythms, The Broken Zoetrope and Cerebral Frontier, Mills has long operated in his own slipstream, merging avant-garde electronics, drone, folk instrumentation and ambient textures into work that feels truly scopic and deeply uncanny. Now, he re-emerges with A Votive Offering, a potent new album on Cruel Nature Records (out 22nd September on vinyl, cassette, and digital). It’s a collection…
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Undisputed good band of the moment, Turnstile bring their Never Enough tour to the National Stadium in Dublin on Halloween night. Off the back of playing a phenomenal rise off the back of their fourth album of the same – notwithstanding a stand-out set at this year’s Glastonbury at the weekend – the Baltimore hardcore heroes play the show with support from High Vis on Friday, 31st October. Tickets priced €39.20-€49.20 and go on sale this Friday, 4th July at 10AM.
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From a surprise single by Problem Patterns to the debut EP from Belfast post-punk quartet Madrúa, it’s a banner week for Irish releases – also featuring essential new music from Poor Creature, AM Shanley, Foreign Mornings and more. Problem Patterns – I’m Fine and I’m Doing Great Madrúa – Metamorphosis Metamorphosis by Madrúa Poor Creature – All Smiles Tonight AM Shanley – Let’s Get Invisible Foreign Mornings – Beginnings SPRINTS – Descartes Throwing Shapes – Chosen Talk Throwing Shapes by Throwing Shapes Jean Pack – Birthday i n n e r l i z a r d s – things…
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By far the island’s agitator supreme, Post Punk Podge takes us on a guided journey through TECHNOHIPPIES! ACTIVATE!, the thrilling new EP from he and his ever-masterful Technonippies. A genre-mutating barrage of feeling and fury, it veers between white-knuckle mania and moments of striking, slow-burn reflection – in ways that only Podge and co. truly can. Below, the masked master unpacks it all, track by track. 1. Plassey Air Redux This is a fiddle tune I wrote a few years ago after a walk along Plassey bank by the University of Limerick. I was thinking of my childhood spent with…