• Watch: Paddy Hanna – Camaraderie

    May 29, 2015 - By 

    The b-side to his earworming ‘Austria’ single, ‘Camaraderie‘ by Dublin singer-songwriter Padda Hanna is a decidedly more reflective, inward-looking affair, touching upon Hanna’s struggles with intense depression. A swooning, Americana-tinged jangle-pop evoking the likes of Pedro The Lion and self-titled-era Elliott Smith, the track is accompanied by a touching, equally static and stoic video by Luke Byrne. Speaking of the track, Hanna said, “Last summer I was crippled with depression, to the point where I was physically and mentally too sick to stand. I spent many weeks alone in my cottage growing ever more paranoid of the outside world and the joyful cheers…

  • Other Voices Set For Latitude 2015

    May 28, 2015 - By 

    One of the country’s most iconic and unbendingly tasteful homes of live music, Other Voices will play host to a stellar line-up at this year’s Latitude festival, which takes place from July 16-19 at Suffolk’s Henham Park. Very much in keeping with Other Voices’ natures, festival-goers are expected to experience intimate, one-off performances from The Unthanks, Jape, Le Galaxie, Book Brass Band, All We Are, Stornaway, Young Fathers, East India Youth, Rozi Plain, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Bleeding Heart Pigeons, All Tvvins, Zachary Lucky, Fight Like Apes, Eaves, Mahalia and Nathaniel Rateliff. Jim Carroll’s Banter series will also make an appearance. Go…

  • TreeHaus Line-up At Body & Soul Announced

    May 28, 2015 - By 

    Curated by HomeBeat, a wonderfully eclectic line-up for this year’s Treehaus stage at Body & Soul 2015 has been announced. With Leftfield, Super Furry Animals, Goat and many more set to play the annual festival – taking place from June 19-21 at Ballinlough Castle, Co. Westmeath – the following acts will play TreeHaus, a self-proclaimed “place of darkness, a place of light, a temple to beauty, a mansion to madness”: Ghosts, Buffalo Woman, Little Xs For Eyes, I Have a Tribe, Hare Squead, SlowPlaceLikeHome, Hilary Woods, My Tribe Your Tribe, Idiot Songs, Planet Parade, Participant, Carriages, Nubus, Margie Lewis, Signa, Somadrone, Lyttet,…

  • Watch: BAILER – Call Off The Unknown

    May 26, 2015 - By 

    One of the strongest heavy single releases from an Irish act this year so far, Cork metalcore quartet BAILER have unveiled the video for their vehement new single, ‘Call Off The Unknown’. Reminiscent of Ire Works-era Dillinger Escape Plan and Reuben’s more abrasive efforts, the track – recorded and mixed by Aidan Cunningam of Murdock – bursts out of the traps without the slightest hint of hesitation, cuing two and a half minutes of relentless and rabid riffage. Truth be told, we’ve listened to it five times on repeat already. BAILER band will release their debut EP later in the year. Grab a…

  • Stream: Cut Once – Forget About The World

    May 25, 2015 - By 

    One of our featured Inbound acts in our May magazine, Dublin duo Michael Heffernan and Aisling Browne AKA Cut Once have released their second single, ‘Let’s Forget About The World’. Clocking in at over just over four minutes in the length, the tracks is a stripped-back, hook-filled effort taken from their debut EP, Institution, suggesting some serious potential for the fast-rising pair.

  • EP Stream: Craft Work – 3 Songs

    May 25, 2015 - By 

    A more abstracted and sample-heavy affair when paired against the comparatively more linear jazz-punk experimentalism of his band, Robocobra Quartet, Belfast-based musician and producer Chris Ryan AKA Craft Work has unveiled 3 Songs, a triptych of hip-hop-leaning tracks featuring samples from the likes of Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Olivier Messiaen and Steve Reich.  Whilst parallels can be drawn to Ryan’s Beat-like lyricism in the aforementioned quartet (who play our Tuesday Throwdown at Belfast’s Lavery’s tomorrow night, don’t you know?), there is a distinctive open-ended sense of freedom to the release that lends to its all-too-brief charm and appeal. 3 Songs by Craft Work

  • Stream: Sleep Thieves – Sparks (Haüer Remix)

    May 21, 2015 - By 

    Eight months on from the release of his (inter)stellar debut EP, Esperbyte, Dublin electro producer John Rooney AKA Haüer has unveiled his remix of Sleep Thieves‘ ‘Sparks’, the b-side to the latter’s latest single, ‘You Want The Night’. A synth-drenched masterstroke, the remix is a retro-futuristic, electro-disco re-imaging of ridiculously danceable proportions, re-igniting our excitement for new Haüer material later in the year. Haüer and Extra Fox support Sleep Thieves at Dublin’s Grand Social tonight (Thursday, May 21) Photos by Loreana Rushe.

  • Stream: Hot Cops – Decay/Six

    May 20, 2015 - By 

    We’re going on the record here: Belfast trio Hot Cops are one of the best up-and-coming bands in the country at the minute, and easily the most satisfyingly spot on indie rock power-triptychs Ireland has probably ever produced. “Aye, right!” cries out an ill-informed, anonymous voice in the proverbial crowd. And we refute that refutation with the following link to the Carl Eccles-fronted trio’s blisteringly brilliant new double single, ‘Decay/Six’. Familiar in all the right places, with a carefully-considered lack of affectation (paradoxes are “in”, man), both tracks are outright highlights from the band’s ever-impressive live show – one that you shouldn’t pass…

  • More Acts Set for Longitude

    May 20, 2015 - By 

    With just under two months to go to go until the festival, several new acts have been confirmed to play Longitude 2015. Set to take place at Dublin’s Marlay Park across the weekend of Friday, July 17 to Sunday, July 19, the following acts are amongst the latest additions: Le Galaxie / Carl Craig / Cashmere Cat / Leon Bridges / Josef Salvat/ Haelos / All Tvvins / Brame / EMBRZ / Frank B / Jeremy Underground / Wife / Shane Linehan / Hubie Davison / Niall D’Arcy / John Daly / Faune / 4Wrd Grad / Contour / Lee…

  • Watch: Fierce Mild – Equal People

    May 19, 2015 - By 

    Far from sitting on the proverbial Marriage Equality fence, Dublin lo-fi trio Fierce Mild play a ridiculously endearing brand of lo-fi punk, inflected with little flourishes of danceable beats and a general sense of celebration. “Celebration of what,” you ask? “Equality, in all its forms” we reply. Watch the video for their single ‘Equal People’, taken from their debut EP, Yes N Yes N Yes, below.