Having announced last week that their self-titled debut EP will be released via Tough Love on August 14, Cruising are streaming one of its featured tracks, ‘Safe Corridor’. Something of a composite of the coastal doom and promenade solipsism of their other bands (September Girls, Girls Names and Sea Pinks) the track retains a singular, virulent edge, capturing some of the magic that has made the Dublin/Belfast quartet’s early shows nothing short of awe-inspiringly good. Pre-order Cruising here.
The country’s leading bastion and celebration of homegrown, independent music, Hard Working Class Heroes are making its annual call to Irish musicians, bands and singer-songwriters wanting to take part in festival, which takes part throughout Dublin from Thursday, October 1 to Saturday, October 3. Having showcased the likes of Girl Band (pictured), Hozier, Villagers and others over the years, the festival will select 100 of the best applicants for “some career changing exposure and publicity, provided by the amazing mix of influential delegates and international music buyers who attend HWCH every year.” Applications are to be made via the HWCH Breaking Tunes site:…
With anticipation on the verge of peaking, the must-possess running orders and site map for this weekend’s Body & Soul festival have been revealed. Go here to check out our Body & Soul Festival Mixtape and sort out any would-be festival clashes below. Site Map Friday Times Saturday Times Sunday times
Having delivered a convincing set supporting SOAK at Belfast’s Empire on Wednesday night, new-fangled Derry duo Colm Hinds and Daniel Kerr AKA Rosseau have hit the ground running with their new six-track, self-titled debut EP. Calling to mind the likes of the Appleseed Cast and Codeine, the release traverses moments real, beguiling fragility, striking a nice balance between sparse emo, imaginative musicianship and slowcore-esque passages. According to their Bandcamp page, Rosseau “was formed in the late summer of 2014 following some shitty circumstances.” Rosseau EP by Rosseau
Knockanstockan have announced a string of new acts set to perform this year’s festival at Wicklow’s Blessington Lakes on July 24 and July 25. With the likes of O Emperor, Red Enemy, Tucan, New Secret Weapon, Rusangano Family, BATS, and Leo Drezden already announced, Elastic Sleep, Loah, No Spill Blood, Otherkin, Hot Cops, Fierce Mild, Travis Oaks and Gavin Glass & The New Shakers are amongst the latest additions to the line-up. Go here to check out the full line-up and to buy tickets.
Soon set to play the likes of Body & Soul and Valentia Isle Festival this Summer, ‘Will to Survive’ by Dublin alt-electro duo My Tribe Your Tribe is a song with “summer festival setlist peak” written all over it. Sun-kissed and propulsive in all the right places, was recorded and produced in Temple-lane studios by James Darkin and (in the duo’s own words) “displays the band’s explorations into upbeat, synth-laden electronica.” We’re not even remotely inclined to argue with that. Catch the band at Homebeat’s Tree Haus sage at Body & Soul on Friday, June 19.
We’re not quite sure what it is but there’s mos definitely something about the sea that seems to inexplicably lure so many Irish musicians and their accompanying video directors. Of course, we’re not complaining – particularly if the video turns out to be anything as exquisite as the one for ‘Down By The Beeches’ by Dublin singer-songwiter Gavin Farrell AKA Atriums. An accompaniment of vast, powerful, wonderfully-paced force, directed by James Lawes of Bare Films, you can watch it via Vimeo below. Check out our Inbound piece on Atriums in the second issue of our physical magazine online here.
“There’s things I haven’t told you. I go out late at night. And if I was to tell you. You see my different side.” In your late twenties? There’s a good chance you’ll recognise those lyrics from Audio Bullys‘ 2003 single ‘We Don’t Care’. Even if you don’t, have a listen to this and there’s a good chance memories of you feeling vaguely hardly listening to this track in your late teens will come flooding back, along with the smell of Cool Water aftershave, dax wax and Lynx Africa. Good, good-smelling times. The latest in a series of remixes, Belfast-based producer and DJ…
Something of a statement of intent, the bio section of Limerick trio Slow Riot’s Facebook page reads, “Slow Riot came together make something altogether different. A soundtrack to a existential noir novel. Something you might here on the local radio station on a drive through Twin Peaks? Either way its all parts dark, brooding and core rattling.” Wearing their patent noise and post-punk influences on their collective sleeve, the band’s debut single, ‘City of Culture’, comes roaring out of the traps and conjures the likes of Art Brut, Wire, Interpol, Sonic Youth and Girl Band at different points throughout its three-and-half-minutes. Promising…
Hands down one of the country’s very best live acts, Northern Irish alt-folk trouveurs The Emerald Armada have spent the last few years building a loyal, suitably armada-like fanbase. With a new EP set for release in November – the highly-anticipated follow-up to last year’s sublime Five Beating Hearts EP – the Neil Allen-fronted five-piece have unveiled the video for their new single, ‘This House’. Betraying a real sense of pop-centric progression from the band, the video for the song – recorded by Start Together’s Rocky O’Reilly – was directed and edited by Wilson Lynn.