• Watch: J. Cowhie – Long Way Home

    Formerly known as GOODTIME/Goodtime John, Dublin “alternative electronic experimental folk” singer-songwriter J. Cowhie has played shows and toured with (deep breath) Bonnie Prince Billy, Smog, Mount Eerie, Cass McCombs, White Magic, Television, Midlake, Bright Eyes, M. Ward, John Grant, Warpaint, Grandaddy, Richard Hawley, Múm, Richard Swift, Little Wings, The American Analog Set, Micah P. Hinson, Mark Kozelek and Giant Sand (to name a few). An artist of wonderfully subtle persuasion, he has re-emerged with the soothing groove of new single ‘Long Way Home’. Taken from the forthcoming album, Veil, its rather charming video was shot and edited by John B. McKenna. Veil is released via RITE…

  • Album Premiere: Heliopause – How Can We Laugh After This…

    Released ten years to the day since performing his first ever show, How Can We Laugh After This… by Belfast’s Richard Davis AKA Heliopause is an exquisite electro-acoustic release confronting creativity, self-questioning and mental health with a refined, incisive delicacy that goes some distance in revealing the musician’s rejuvenated prowess. His 13th release to be self-released via Bandcamp, the 12 track album was mostly composed using Ableton Live, in which his usual backbone of acoustic guitar is replaced in favour of a baritone electric. Occasionally shaped by literary influences including Mysterious Stranger, the final novel by Mark Twain and James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, Davis’ lyrics…

  • Premiere: Monster Monster – The City’s Ours

    Ahead of its release on March 11, we’re pleased to present a premiere of ‘The City’s Ours’ by Dublin alt-pop duo Mick Stuart and Ríona Sally Hartman AKA Monster Monster. Taken from their debut EP of the same name (released last year and recorded with UK producer James Lewis) the lead track is a rousing battlecry of urban abandon and collective immunity. Check out the video for the single and forthcoming Monster Monster tour dates below. Tuesday, March 1 – Ruby Sessions, Dublin Saturday, April 9 – Brewery Corner, Kilkenny Friday, April 15 – Boyles, Slane Thursday, April 21 – Róisín Dubh, Galway Saturday, May 14 –…

  • Watch: OCHO – Vines

    Set for release via Cork’s Feel Good Lost tomorrow, ‘Vines’ by Dublin act OCHO is a masterfully creeping, all-too-short burst of wonderfully subdued electronica. Accompanied by a phenomenal, cunningly claustophobic DIY video by the band (hands down one of the best we’ve seen in a while) it is OCHO’s first release since 2012’s debut LP ‘Young Hunting’. With live dates in the pipeline, the single is out digitally via Feel Good Lost tomorrow and on 12″ with a Darshan Jesrani (Metro Area) remix via Dublin’s Bodytonic later this year.

  • Premiere: Hot Cops – Scared of Everything

    It’s no coincidence that we’ve hosted Belfast indie rock trio Hot Cops in four different TTA shows over the last couple of years, most recently at a packed-out show at Belfast’s Lavery’s on Tuesday night for the launch of their stellar new single ‘Passive Passive‘. The b-side to that, ‘Scared of Everything’ is an equally emphatic effort from the fast-rising threesome, forging pounding, fuzzed-out chords and frontman Carl Eccles’ admissions of apprehension (“I’m afraid to go outside/I don’t want to see your skin/I’m afraid to let you in”). Conjuring the likes of Pinkerton-era Weezer and Cloud Nothings’ more tuneful throwdowns, it gives everyday quasi-agoraphobic dread yet another…

  • Watch: Bantum & Loah – Take It

    Cork born, Dublin based producer Ruari Lynch (AKA Bantum) and Irish/Sierra Leonean vocalist Loah are two artists who have been keen to take their time with regard to individual releases over the past couple of years. The last piece of released music from Bantum was his 2014 collaborative EP with Eimear O’Donovan and Owensie while, despite her soulful and much lauded live performances, we will not be hearing a debut EP from Loah until later this year. What a treat it is then to hear these two artists collaborate on brand new track ‘Take It’, a swelling electronic arrangement embellished…

  • Reverberation Psych Fest Announces Lineup

    The full line-up for the second annual (and comprehensively unmissable) Reverberation Weekend at Dublin’s Grand Social has been announced. The psych fest takes place over April 8 and 9 in association with Heineken Ireland Music, and features some of the best acts in the genre, from home and abroad. The lineup is as follows: The Cosmic Dead The Cult Of Dom Keller The Black Tambourines Twinkranes Woven Skull Beach Wild Rocket Fabric I Heart The Monster Hero Sun Mahshene Tickets go on sale from Monday, February 15, available at Tickets.ie.

  • First Acts Revealed for Forbidden Fruit

    Tame Impala, Jungle and Underworld are amongst the first acts announced to play this year’s Forbidden Fruit. Set to return to Dublin’s Royal Hospital Kilmainham during the June Bank Holiday of June 3-5, Flume, Groove Armada, Kiasmos and Battles also feature amongst the first wave of acts to be confirmed. With many more acts set to be announced, check out the current line-up below. Tickets go on sale tomorrow (Wednesday, February 10) at 9am.

  • Watch: September Girls – Love No One

    A dark and charging effort from the South by Southwest-bound Dublin five-piece, September Girls have re-emerged with new single ‘Love No One’. Pretty much exactly what we’d imagine the opening theme from a revenge horror re-imaging of a spaghetti Western to sound like, it’s a wonderfully tempestuous cut taken from their forthcoming album, Age of Indignation, which is set for released on April 8.  Check out the suitably baleful video for the single, courtesy of the band’s vocalist and lead guitarist Jessie Ward O’Sullivan, below.

  • Download: The Crytearions – Selected Recordings From The Album Trilogy

    Concisely self-summed up as “Lo-fi punk by an Irish man” on his Bandcamp page, The Crytearions is prolific Co. Mayo musician Jimmy Monaghan, also of Music For Dead Birds. Brilliantly ramshackle and fuzzily ecstatic in all the right places, he has just released Selected Recordings From The Album Trilogy, described as “The best bits [from his first three albums]. All the imaginary hits. No shits. One for the inquisitors, the idle listeners. The loners, the stoners, and the perpetual boners.” And the perpetual boners, like. Pure poetry. Clocking in at 16 minutes in length, stream/download the album below. Selected Recordings From The Album…