• Delicate fury: An interview with Maija Sofia

    November 25, 2019 - By 

    The simple, private act of bathing links generations of women, from pre-Raphaelite models of the 1850s to Chelsea Hotel socialites in the 1960s. A solitary, domestic act – baths are a safe refuge from the other side of the door. It is a strange thing – to lock ourselves inside a room in our own homes.  Part inspiration from a daily bathing ritual, part reflection on a Tori Amos lyric – your apocalypse was fab for a girl who couldn’t choose between the shower or the bath – Maija Sofia’s debut LP Bath Time is a nuanced and vital exploration…

  • Mountain Goats w/ Laura Cortese & Dance Cards @ Button Factory, Dublin

    November 23, 2019 - By 

    Having started out on his musical journey in the early ‘90’s recording self-penned songs through a cassette boombox, John Darnielle’s lo-fi aesthetic wasn’t too far removed from the likes of Robert Pollard or the late Daniel Johnston. Darnielle has an unnerving ability to cover the more downtrodden aspects of life such as addiction, isolation, death and abuse, yet somehow manages to create songs that include hook-laden pop sensibilities spliced with humour, that it makes it impossible not to be drawn into his desolate world. This tour is in support of The Mountain Goats’ seventeenth full-length record, In League With Dragons,…

  • Album Premiere: Eoin Dolan – Commander of Sapiens

    November 22, 2019 - By 

    On his third full-length LP, Commander of Sapiens, Galway musician Eoin Dolan underscores his status as one of the country’s finest songwriters. Conjuring everyone from Animal Collective to the Beach Boys, songs like ‘Microship Visions’ and ‘Sheena’ meld starry-eyed harmonies and cosmic wanderlust with masterfully woozy refrains and sublime melancholia to deliver nine tracks of first-rate, surf-influenced sci-fi pop. Released in proud association with Galway-based collective Citóg and featuring long term collaborators Conor Deasy (guitar), James Casserly (drums) and Adam Sheeran (bass), the album wonderfully veers between themes including environmental destruction, mass consumerism and human cybernetics. Surely you’re sold by now? Stream it…

  • Open Ear Christmas Party @ The Sound House

    November 22, 2019 - By 

    Having just announced its return to Sherkin Island in 2021, Ireland’s very best festival Open Ear is throwing a Christmas party at the Soundhouse in Dublin on December 30th. And it’s almost certain to be the best line-up in the city that night. Bringing together Rising Damp (pictured), Rian Ryan, DJ Egg, Robert Curgenven & Kat McDowall (presenting AGENESIS), Natalia Beylis, Ngoni Egan, DJ Capricorn, Glenn O’Brien, tickets for the event are just €12. Want to risk it? It’s €15 on the door. 10pm-3am. Tell your friends.

  • Spilt Milk Festival 2019

    November 21, 2019 - By 

    The brainchild of one of the country’s finest imprints, Art For Blind, Split Milk is a brand new audio-visual festival in Sligo. Bringing together national and international artists to perform and exhibit in intimate venues across Sligo Town alongside emerging local artists, the three-day festival will take place across November 22-24. And the festival’s inaugural line-up is quite something. Including several TTA favourites, Percolator, Landless (pictured), Aoife Nessa Frances, Katie Geraldine O’Neill, Problem Patterns, Ensemble Economique, Jusme ft. Farid Williams, Gulpt, BB84, Dult, Spekulativ Fiktion, Rachael Lavelle, Diarmuid McDiarmada and Marge Bouvier will perform across the weekend. Better yet, there will be film…

  • King Krule Set For Dublin Show

    November 19, 2019 - By 

    King Krule will play Dublin next year. Taking place as part of his 2020 Northern American and EU tour, the English artist and multi-instrumentalist, born Archy Ivan Marshall, will play the Olympia Theatre on Thursday, March 19. Tickets cost €30 and go on sale this Friday at 10am. Check out the video for new single ‘Hey World!’ below.

  • Win Tickets To Other Voices Dingle

    November 15, 2019 - By 

    Ireland’s foremost musical TV moment is with us again as Dingle is overtaken up by Other Voices over the weekend of November 29-December 1. With tickets for the intimate TV recording available only through competition via Other Voices and partners, we’re delighted to be offering a chance to win two tickets for the Music Trail over the full weekend, as well as the St. James’ Church TV recording on Saturday night. This year’s lineup is yet another veritable who’s who of Irish music, as well as a number of international names. St. James’ Church features Editors, Whitney, Angie McMahon, SOAK, Joy Crookes, Ye Vagabonds, The Murder Capital, Jafaris & Arlo Parks – each performance at…

  • Stream: Fears – Bones

    November 15, 2019 - By 

    Last year’s ‘h_always‘ came in at #3 in our 100 tracks of 2018, and following up on her excellent ‘Fabric’, Fears might have delivered her finest slice of experimental pop yet in ‘Bones’. Both the song and its fragmented visual companion are completely self-produced. The staggered, introvert’s club tune is further progression in the trajectory of an artist whose multi-faceted craft recalls the leftfield likes of Carla Dal Forno & Holly Herndon in its elevation of pop songwriting as an fully-fledged art form; understandable, given she’s one of three artists in Moving On Music’s Emerging Artists Programme 2018/19. Exploring the gradual, imperfect nature of trauma recovery, ‘Bones’ is spiritual closure…