• Line-Up For Quarter Block Party 2020 Announced

    January 9, 2020 - By 

    The full line-up for this year’s Quarter Block Party has been announced. Taking place in various venues across Cork City from February 6-9, Cork’s leading celebration of music and arts features 100 artists performing over 50 events across 3 days. Festival organiser Caoilian Sherlock says: “We are really delighted to have Jameson involved in the festival this year, it means that Quarter Block Party can offer more free performances to audiences throughout the weekend and that we can support even more talented young artists and bands that will I am sure we will hear a lot of over the course…

  • Jawbox Set for Dublin Show

    January 9, 2020 - By 

    DC post-hardcore legends Jawbox will play their first-ever Irish show in the summer. Comprising J. Robbins, Bill Bardot, Kim Coletta and Zach Barocas, the band will stop off at Whelan’s in Dublin on June 9th as part of a forthcoming European tour. Tickets cost €27.00 and go on sale this Friday at 9am. Jawbox released four studio albums across 1991-1996. Revisit the video for ‘Savory’ from their major label debut, below.

  • Oh Sees Set For Two-Night Dublin Return

    January 8, 2020 - By 

    Californian garage/psych outfit Oh Sees are set to return to Dublin for a must-see two-night stint at the Button Factory on May 18th & 19th, almost a year to the day since their last shows here. Unanimously accepted as one of the finest rock & roll bands in the universe, the John Dwyer-led band have averaged around one album per year since 2003 under the Oh Sees name or its various aliases. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10am at Ticketmaster.

  • The Thin Air Podcast: TPM

    January 8, 2020 - By 

    In episode two, we’re delighted to feature the Dundalk rap duo “making unemployment sexy again” – TPM. Since 2015, brothers Charles and Andrew Hendy been making funny, insightful, very Irish hip hop together, influenced by anxiety, depression and life on the dole. Last year they released the explicitly excellent single, ‘FUCK RTE’, and Danny Carroll visited the brothers in their Louth abode to learn more about the song. The episode also features some insights from their producer David Noonan (Just Mustard/Larry) credited here as DJ Chronic Lower Back Pain, with Charles and Andrew talking about how the song evolved, what it means to…

  • Video Premiere: Gorrister – School Tour

    January 7, 2020 - By 

    Irish experimental label Unbend Leg Out returned in December with its only release of 2019, Gorrister‘s Full Almond.  Comprised of Tongue Bundle and The Barry People’s Warren Pollard and Pob, the album is a typically raucous collection of distorted bass howls, noisy kicks and jarring FX, samples and screams. It’s delightfully frenzied, and not at all for the faint of heart. Below, you can check out the video for album opener, ‘School Tour’, a screeching number that stars the LP as it means to continue. The accompanying visuals are fittingly intense and eerie. Warning: contains flashing images Listen to/buy Gorrister’s Full Almond through…

  • Maija Sofia – Bath Time

    January 5, 2020 - By 

      The best albums are like books. Each song should act like a chapter, with a clear purpose at the core, laying foundations to the narrative flow. This may sound simplistic, but it’s an achievement only a handful of artists can lay claim to. Maija Sofia is one of them. The Galway-born singer-songwriter began writing her long awaited debut Bath Time while living in London, before recording it upon resettling in Ireland. By writing over extended chapters of her life, Sofia never had any intention to produce a concept album, but found herself with a collection of nine tracks informed by her…

  • The Thin Air Podcast: Junior Brother

    January 1, 2020 - By 

    The premiere episode of The Thin Air Podcast Season 2 features Kerry’s finest singer-songwriter Junior Brother.  With his debut album Pull The Right Rope recently named The Thin Air 2019 album of the year, Ronan Kealy speaks to Danny Carroll about the song’s origin and recording process.  We also hear from the song’s producer Chris Barry (Ailfionn Studios), as well as cellist Claire Kinsella (Lemoncello). Ahead of episodes from TPM, Girl Band, Careerist, Just Mustard and SOAK, stream episode 1 of Season 2 below. Music Featured: 1. The Back Of Her (2018) 2. Hungover At Mass (2017) 3. You Make A Fine Picture…

  • Little Women

    January 3, 2020 - By 

    Grab the green bin. Greta Gerwig’s dropped in one last gift. Little Women, the seventh cinematic (re)telling of Louisa May Alcott’s much-loved novel, is a perfect film for the dark, weird, listless days that trot along right behind Christmas. It’s Gerwig’s third directorial effort, and the second time she’s written and directed, after the slow-burn brilliance of 2017’s Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan’s best movie). The ensemble domestic drama follows the troubles and triumphs of the March’s, a contented but economically limited household in Civil War-era Massachusetts, as four sisters and their mother await their pastor patriarch’s return from the conflict,…