• Pavements at Docs Ireland 2025

    June 19, 2025 - By 

    One of the outright highlights of this year’s Docs Ireland (and there are many) Pavements is what happens when a band that made irony sacred becomes the subject of a documentary that doesn’t believe in borders. Part doc, part fiction, part mockumentary, part museum, part musical, part meta-headfuck, it’s a 90s indie fever dream that starts with the 2022 reunion and spirals into something way stranger, way funnier, and way more moving than it has any right to be. If you’ve ever argued that the Live Europaturnén MCMXCVII bootleg has the definitive ‘Fight This Generation,’ if ‘Rooftop Gambler’ lives rent-free…

  • Beyond the Pale 2025: Saturday

    June 19, 2025 - By 

    Photos from Saturday at Beyond The Pale 2025 featuring live performances from The Sugarhill Gang, Le Boom, ESSIRAY, Yuné Pinku, Boney M, F3MII, Osees, Dave Clarke, Booka Shade, Cruel Sister & more. Photos by Seán Kelly

  • Beyond The Pale 2025: Friday

    June 17, 2025 - By 

    Beyond The Pale kicked off at Glendalough Estate in Wicklow last Friday, featuring live performances from Soda Blonde, Negro Impacto, Fizzy Orange, Blue Slate, Hotgirl, Ezra Collective, Jon Hopkins, King Kong Comoany, Rory Sweeney and more. Photos by Seán Kelly

  • Monday Mixtape: Big Sleep

    June 16, 2025 - By 

    Ahead of the release of their new single ‘Pick a Cheek’, Dublin-based indie quartet Big Sleep share a playlist of songs that have inspired them, from Big Thief to The Cleaners from Venus. Here’s what the band had to say about their selections – “We put together this playlist on the run for a recording session last year. It contains both songs that we like as a band and as individuals – but some of them were an inspiration for creating our music. So, this selection and its diversity wants to represent our general taste for music but also what…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 13th June

    June 13, 2025 - By 

    Dig into the very best Irish releases of the week, from Cardinals, Cosign and Morgana, to A. Smyth, Ahmed, With Love., and beyond Cardinals – Big Empty Heart Cosign – Bagpuss Bagpuss by cosign Morgana – Party Killer George Houston – The Original Death Card A. Smyth – Hello Goliath Hello Goliath by A. Smyth Madams Last Discovery – WASTE DUG – Livelong Day Foreign Mornings – Born To Be This Way Luke McGuinness – Far Out Woo Woo Kendino & Deleon feat. Sushee – Rust Ahmed, With Love. – Bedroom Bullies’ feat. Kibo & Lil Skag Sexy Tadhg –…

  • David Byrne Set for 3Arena Show

    June 10, 2025 - By 

    David Byrne has announced a brand new Dublin date as part of his forthcoming world tour, set for 3Arena on Friday, March 13th. The show marks his highly-anticipated return to the venue seven years on from his unforgettable American Utopia tour stop back in 2018. Tickets go on general sale this Friday, June 13. The show arrives in support of Who Is the Sky?, Byrne’s first album in seven years, landing September 5 via Matador. A Technicolour collaboration with Kid Harpoon and Ghost Train Orchestra, it features Hayley Williams, St. Vincent and Tom Skinner, and is said to find the…

  • Under the Drum 2025

    June 10, 2025 - By 

    Already one of the island’s most vital small festivals, Under the Drum returns to the lush, rewilded grounds of Breckenhill, just outside Belfast across 8–9 August. Lovingly curated by siblings Will, George and Rosanna Reade, the festival unfolds across a family-run site that’s been rewilded over 37 years. Every tree was planted with care and every corner of Breckenhill hums with something honest. The result is a weekend that feels genuinely grounded; a low-key, high-impact alternative to the noise elsewhere. I was there last year and had an incredible time: bands in the barn, falcons in the sky and that…