• EP Stream: Pôt-Pôt – Ode To A

    Following their first gig as a four-piece in March for the Port-To-Port festival in Lisbon, we’re delighted to give you a first listen to Ode To A, the debut EP from Cork-based experimental project pôt-pôt. Its four swirling, oneiric songs are based entirely around the note of A, with it being the only musical note used across the whole record. Cork’s Mark Waldron-Hyden (drums, synth, vocals) created pôt-pôt initially as a solo project – with the goal of writing only music that could be recreated as a solo act – during lockdown, before moving to Lisbon, where he met and recruited bassist Joe Armitage and guitarist Michael…

  • Hamer Place Releases Debut Single ‘A Tribute To Tina’

    As a member of Postcard Versions, Safe Neighbourhood, and Oh Boland, Ross Hamer’s place in the furniture of Dublin indie rock furniture is fairly well cemented. Enter new project Hamer Place and debut single ‘A Tribute To Tina’, another joyous guitar-led nugget brimming with all the immediacy you’d come to expect from him. Led by Hamer, the band features David Tapley, Hugh O’Dwyer and Neil Dexter, and was recorded by O’Dwyer in Hodland Studio earlier this year. On ‘Tribute To Tina’, Ross told us: “I’ve written lots of songs in my life, mostly miserable ones, but recently I felt like a change. Inspired by some of the greatest musicians of…

  • Stream: Junior Brother’s Favourite

    In the five short years since we featured him as one of our 18 for ‘18 ones-to-watch, Kerry experimental folk artist Ronan Kealy, aka Junior Brother, has curveballed with a flair and vision all his own. Taking in the likes of his resounding second album from last year, The Great Irish Famine, it’s a journey that reaches a thrilling new summit today. Offered up as a “final chapter” to his previous releases, ‘Junior Brother’s Favourite’ is a 20-minute effort like no other. Doubling up a self-contained EP, it‘s a masterfully mercurial weave of Kealy‘s unrepeatable, increasingly unfuckwithable craft. Zig-zagging between beatific…

  • Video Premiere: Swimmers Jackson – Now Is All

    We’re pleased to be able to give you a first peek at the second single and title track from Swimmers Jackson‘s second solo album Now Is All – and it’s a wonderfully rare slice of optimistic nihilist power-pop. Niall, the songwriter behind the Swimmers pseudonym, tells us: “The title track is a sunny song about being kind to yourself and saying yes to good times, within reason of course. It’s kind of a celebration of being somewhat free again – we all spent long enough locked up, locked down, dragged in, burnt out. It’s time to live a little…even if just for now – It’s…

  • Codeine Set For Irish Show

    New York indie rock legends Codeine are set for a long-awaited Irish show. Off the back of reuniting late last year, the trio of Stephen Immerwahr, John Engle, Chris Brokaw will stop off at Whelan’s on 30th August as part of 10 EU/UK shows in support of their lost 1992 album, Dessau. The dates also double up as the band’s first non-US shows since 2012. Tickets for the Dublin show at €26.50 and go on sale Widely regarded as slowcore (and sadcore) pioneers, Codeine released two albums during their initial run, 1990’s Frigid Stars and 1994’s The White Birch, as…

  • The Bonk Announce Irish Tour

    The Bonk have announced details of an upcoming Irish tour. Almost certainly the country’s finest genre-warping proposition, the Philip Christie-fronted project will embark on the aptly-named Tour In The Month of May, an 11-date traipse across the island, playing various venues alongside the Maija Sofia, Elaine Howley and – at Dubln’s Sugar Club on 27th May – a “mystery legend” to be revealed. Check out the full dates and info below. The tour coincides with the release of The Bonk’s highly-anticipated second album, Greater Than Or Equal To The Bonk. Set for release via boutique label thirty-three45 on 12th May,…

  • Pavement Announce Galway Show

    Galway is getting a long-awaited Pavement show. Five months on from their incredible two-night stint at Vicar Street in Dublin as part of their second reunion run, the Stephen Malkmus-fronted indie rock heroes will play live at the Heineken Big Top as part of this year’s Galway International Arts Festival on 24th July. Tickets go on sale this Friday, 31st March. Revisit our gallery from the first of the band’s 2022 Dublin shows, features on Slanted and Enchanted and Wowee Zowee, as well as Monday Mixtape from the one and only Bob Nastanovich.

  • boygenius Set For Dublin Show

    boygenius are finally coming to Ireland. The U.S. indie rock supergroup, comprising Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus, will play the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin on 28th August. With more to be announced, MUNA are among the acts to support on the night. Tickets for the show go on sale at noon this Friday, 31st March. The news come ahead of the imminent release of the trio’s highly-anticipated debut album, the record, on Friday. Check out the video for recent single ‘Not Strong Enough’ below.

  • The Walkmen Set For Dublin Show

    The Walkmen are set for their long-awaited Irish return. Four months on from announcing their first shows in a decade, it’s been revealed the Hamilton Leithauser-fronted indie rock heroes will play Vicar Street in Dublin on 23rd August. Promoted by Foggy Notions, the show marks the U.S. band’s return to the venue, having last played there in October 2012. Tickets are €36.50 (including booking fee) and go on sale on Friday, 31st March at 10am. Revisit a stone-cold modern classic from the Walkmen below.

  • Irish Tracks Of The Week – 17th March

    Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Here’s the very best music released across the island this week featuring Perlee, Ian Nyquist, Ailbhe Reddy, Uly, JyellowL, Celia and more Perlee – Reckoning Celia – Celia EP 03 Celica EP 03 by Celica Uly – Emperor’s New Groove (for Klara) Ailbhe Reddy – Endless Affair Endless Affair by Ailbhe Reddy Ian Nyquist – Black Earth Cairn BLACK EARTH CAIRN by Ian Nyquist Dashoda – Never Enough JyellowL – La Vie Est Belle XXXX in Stereo (ft. Rory Sweeney) – Second Skin Second Skin (ft. Rory Sweeney) by XXXX In Stereo Reylta – Lucifer’s Love…