• Album Premiere: Paddy Mulcahy – The Words She Said

    March 1, 2017 - By 

    In the midst of the blues inflicted by these cold, wet and blustery days, there are few remedies quite like hearing music that emanates warmth and candour. As luck would have it, that is exactly what we are presented with on The Words She Said, the brand new LP from Limerick based neo-classical producer Paddy Mulcahy.  The seven track collection is a venture through ambient soundscapes and deft piano. Combing its expansive synth drones with nimble, dusty melodies, Mulcahy paints an atmosphere that is reposeful and comfortingly dark. Fans of the likes of Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds, Bing & Ruth and Conor Walsh will find a lot to love…

  • Premiere: Field Trip – Evening’s Over

    March 1, 2017 - By 

    The title track from their forthcoming, Eoin Dolan-recorded EP of the same time, ‘Evening’s Over’ is a wonderfully restrained slice of jangle-pop from Galway’s Field Trip. All but lullabyesque in its sleepy lo-fi tone and pace, Sean Walsh from the band said, “The song reflects on the scenario of a night of drinking. You’re on the couch, it’s 5am and getting bright, the birds are singing, you’re comrades are passed out around you and now you get the chance to gather your thoughts and reflect on the evening. The song is sort of sigh of relief that the night is…

  • Cork’s Right Here, Right Now Festival Announced

    February 28, 2017 - By 

    Co-presented by Cork Opera House and Coughlans Live Promotions, Right Here, Right Now is a new Cork festival “celebrating the vibrant, eclectic music scene in Cork City” from April 28-30. Set to feature over 20 artists including Shookrah, Hank Wedel, Interference, Mick Flannery, The Shaker Hymn (pictured), John Blek & The Rats, Clare Sands, Marlene Enright, Jack O’Rourke and more, the festival hopes to offer “a unique snapshot of a time and place through the lens of the city’s artists.” The festival will take over Cork Opera House for the whole weekend with shows in the Main Auditorium, in The Right Room…

  • Premiere: Ro Gang – Smoking

    February 28, 2017 - By 

    Having previously went under the name Mr. Rosso, Dublin two-piece Isaac Clarke and Henry Ernest AKA Ro Gang will release their second album, H.E.R. – an album reportedly informed by everything from Young Thug to Burt Bacharach – via Little L Records on March 15. The first single to be taken from that, ‘Smoking’ is a typically riotous affair melding far-out lo-fi tangents with chorus-pedal-soaked tones. We’re sold. Have a first look at the video for the single – a VHS-shot effort featuring Clarke and Ernest trying, and failing, to crash a party – below.

  • John Cusack Joins The 17th Belfast Film Festival

    February 28, 2017 - By 

    The 17th annual Belfast Film Festival, running 30th March – 8 April, is on the horizon, and the organizers have announced a range of festival highlights. Principal among them is the news that John Cusack, one of modern cinema’s most unconventional stars, will be in town as this year’s special guest and recipient of the festival’s Outstanding Contribution to Cinema award. The screenwriter, author and star of Say Anything, High Fidelity and Dragon Blade will be joined in conversation by local film broadcaster Brian Henry Martin at the Movie House Dublin Road on Friday 31st March, to reflect on his…

  • Kamasi Washington To Play Dublin

    February 27, 2017 - By 

    Having released of the best albums of the last few years in 2015’s sprawling – and very aptly-titled The Epic – it’s been announced that L.A. saxophonist, bandleader and collaborator with the likes of Kendrick and Rtj Kamasi Washington will play Dublin’s National Concert Hall on Thursday, June 29. Tickets – which range from €27.50 to €36 – will go on sale from March 3. Revisit or discover The Epic in full below.

  • Beak> Set For Belfast Show

    February 27, 2017 - By 

    Comprised of Portishead’s Geoff Barrow, Billy Fuller and Will Young (not this guy, no), Bristol’s Beak> will play Belfast’s Limelight 2 on Saturday, April 1. Hands down one of the UK’s most consistently engaging electronic acts, the trio have released two full length albums and one EP of Kraut-tinged mastery since forming back in 2009. Tickets for the band’s Limelight 2 show go on sale on Friday, March 3 at 9am, priced £16.50 and booking fee.

  • Watch: Tomorrows – Ricochet

    February 27, 2017 - By 

    Featuring the ever encahnting Laura Sheeran, Dublin “cosmic-pop” quartet Tomorrows have unveiled the video for their new single ‘Ricochet’. Filmed by David O’Carroll of The People We Meet, Sheeran’s nocturnal traipse through the streets of Dublin town strikes a perfectly playful contrast with the track’s buoyant melodic flow. The single is a highlight from Tomorrows’ Trout Records-released album Another Life, which you can stream in full/buy here.

  • Premiere: Jealous of the Birds and Ryan Vail – Love Is A Crow (DIE HEXEN Remix)

    February 24, 2017 - By 

    Whether teased out via whim or intention, collaboration is often the key to unearthing untested majesty. In the case of Jealous of the Birds and Ryan Vail, ‘Love is a Crow’ recently saw two worlds collide in perfectly curious fashion with the former’s spoken word spirals and vocals melding with the latter’s bubbling electronica and chopping rhythms. Taking the collaborative buzz one step further, Dee Lucille AKA DIE HEXEN’s remix of the track is a spectral masterclass, quietly dragging the original through a velvet netherworld of Badalamentian synth-work, heaving textures and warped vocal refrains. Have an exclusive first listen to that below.

  • Album Stream: Group Zero – Structures and Light

    February 24, 2017 - By 

    Written, recorded and mixed intermittently in a Belfast bedroom over four years, Structures of Light by Girls Names’ Cathal Cully AKA Group Zero is an album that bears the hallmarks of an artist slowly unravelling and refining his prowess in a new realm. A project stemming from a deeply-resonant viewing of Heinz Mack’s Pyramid of Light, the album – which is released via Belfast imprint Touch Sensitive – traverses brittle cold wave gems, pre-dawn electro throwdowns and shivering industrial instrumentalism over ten tracks, each as commanding as the last. Order Structures and Light via Touch Sensitive on vinyl and cassette here.…