• First Acts Announced for Another Love Story 2016

    April 13, 2016 - By 

    Another Love Story returns to Killyon Manor for its third Summer Festival outing this August. Organised by Happenings and Homebeat the almost otherworldly festival promises terrific Irish and International live music and DJ sets, colourful instalments and plenty of room to explore. Today, the first round of acts have been announced for the weekend including Meltybrains? SlowPlaceLikeHome, Talos, Saint Sister, J.Cowhie, Beach, Variant Sea and more. Outside of music there will be talks, walks, cinema, theatre, yoga, Ching Gong, and a myriad of other elements aside from the music to lure you in. There will be more Irish and International live acts and DJs added…

  • Interlude Festival Reveal First Acts

    April 12, 2016 - By 

    Having made its inaugural outing last October, Interlude Festival is set return to the scenic surroundings of Dublin’s RHA Gallery & Ely Place across the weekend of June 24-26. Opting for a new summer date, increased capacity and a new outdoor stage, the three-day music, movie and art festival have announced Lisa Hannigan, Dimitri From Paris, The Sugarhill Gang, Crazy P, Booka Brass Band, exmagician and Alison Limerick amongst their first confirmed acts. Taking place over three stages, there will also be a record store, cinema, food garden and block party. Check out their current full line-up above and go here to buy early bird…

  • Lisa Hannigan Announces Irish Dates

    April 11, 2016 - By 

    In which she will preview songs from her forthcoming, highly-anticipated third studio album, Lisa Hannigan will play a string of 16 Irish dates this June. Kicking off at Kildare’s Riverbank Theatre on June 2 and culminating at Galway’s Roisin Dubh 23 days later on June 24 the tour will mark Hannigan’s first Irish dates since 2012. Check them our in full below. Tickets for all dates – featuring support from Ye Vagabonds – go on sale on Wednesday, April 13 at 9am. In which she will preview songs from her forthcoming, highly-anticipated third studio album, Lisa Hannigan will play a…

  • Watch: Molossus – Sine, Spiky & Orcas

    April 11, 2016 - By 

    Comprised of members of The Jimmy Cake, Hands Up Who Want To Die and Percolator, Dublin five-piece Molossus – formerly Art Slug – are set to record their debut album later in the year. The self-proclaimed sound of “an owl and a bear fighting over a mason jar full of electricity”, the band have featured in the latest installment Sean Zissou’s Practice Tapes in the form of three-song video compilation of tracks ‘Sine’, ‘Spiky’ and ‘Ocras’, filmed at Guerilla Sounds. Traversing the post-rock gamut, this material sits cross-legged somewhere between Portishead, Jessamine and Slint; brilliantly brooding and yearning forth in a tangible attempt to clasp…

  • First Acts Announced for KnockanStockan

    April 8, 2016 - By 

    An independent music and arts festival in the truest sense of the term, KnockanStockan festival has revealed the first 50 acts set to play its grand 10th outing on July 22-24. With 100 acts yet to be announced, Come On Live Long, The Altered Hours, Oh Boland, Meltybrains?, Overhead The Albatross and Robocobra Quartet are amongst the first wave of homegrown acts confirmed to play. Check out the first line-up in full below. Speaking about the first announcement, KnockanStockan music director Graham Sharpe said, ​”We are so psyched about the bands in this announcement, this really is our favourite time of year…

  • Album stream: Rusangano Family – Let The Dead Bury The Dead

    April 8, 2016 - By 

    Very few Irish acts have so comprehensively demanded our attention over the last couple of years quite like Rusangano Family. Having featured them as one of our “ones to watch” acts in our 15 For 15 feature last year and fondly recalling their unforgettable appearance to close our second birthday party at Dublin’s Twisted Pepper last May, the Limerick trio of God Knows, MuRli and mynameisjOhn have burned with a certain indomitable zeal from the very moment they set out on what has become a journey very much worth following. Now, after after a string of increasingly tenacious standalone releases, the trio have unveiled their…

  • Watch: Rusangano Family – Lights On

    April 6, 2016 - By 

    Following on from their hugely successful venture to SXSW in Austin, Texas in March, Limerick Hip-Hop trio Rusangano Family are set to drop their debut LP Let the Dead Bury the Dead this Friday April 8th. To whet our appetites ahead of what is set to be one of the most exciting Irish releases of the year so far from an act whose live performances have been lauded for their energy and abandon the group have gifted us with a video for new track ‘Lights On’. Lyrically, the verses by God Knows and  MuRli deal with themes of ambition, influence and the…

  • Line-Up Revealed For Dublin’s Out To Lunch Weekender

    April 5, 2016 - By 

    A completely separate event from Belfast’s festival of the same name, the line-up for this year’s Out To Lunch Weekender at Dublin’s Yamamori Tengu on August 13 and 14 has been announced. Cologne based DJ and Producer Lena Willikens, snooker legend Steve Davis (read our interview with him here), Traxx, Ben UFO, DJ Sprinkles, Mr. Ties and Mark Ernestus have been confirmed to play four-hour sets. Elsewhere, Berlin-based Korean artist Peggy Gou, Compassion Crew, Lerosa, Lumigraph, Barry Redsettaz, Kenny Hanlon, Wino Wagon, Cait Dip and Damien Lynch will also perform. Tickets are available to buy now here.

  • Stream: Kojaque – Sunday Roast Mixtape

    April 4, 2016 - By 

    This Sunday saw the release of Dublin hip-hop producer and MC Kojaque’s Sunday Roast Mixtape, a collection of seven tracks that add to the aspiring artist’s already striking repertoire. Kojaque – real name Kevin Smith – garnered a considerable intrigue in May of last year with the tense beauty that was ‘Midnight Flower’ along with its equally stark video which showed Smith lip-syncing with the track, head submerged underwater for its entirety. ‘Midnight Flower’ was a dark, uneasy introduction that maintained a delicate poignancy despite itself. Sunday Roast continues down much the same path, giving further cause to perhaps see Kojaque…

  • Michael Kiwanuka Set For Ireland

    April 4, 2016 - By 

    With his highly-anticipated second album, Love & Hate, set for release via Polydor on May 27, Michael Kiwanuka has announced that he will return to Ireland this Autumn to play shows at Belfast’s Limelight 2 on Friday, October 14 and Dublin’s Academy on Saturday, October 15. Tickets for both shows on sale this Friday, April 8 at 9am priced £15 + BF and €22.00+ respectively. Check out new Kiwanuka single, Black Man In A White World, below.