• Grouper Set For Dublin’s National Concert Hall

    November 3, 2021 - By 

    The National Concert Hall will play host to one of music’s most singular voices next year. Thanks to Foggy Notions, Grouper – the main project of Californian musician Liz Harris – will play the Dublin venue on Tuesday, April 12th 2022. In support of her recently-released 12th full-length, Shade, the date marks Grouper’s first show in the city since playing Unitarian Church in 2012. Tickets are from €28.50 and go on sale on Friday, 5th November at 10 am. Stream Shade in full below. Shade by Grouper

  • Monday Mixtape: Fixity

    November 1, 2021 - By 

    If you’ve not been following, Cork-based Dan Walsh is a fixture across many of Ireland’s most essential improvised and experimental music happenings. Be it on drums, sax, synth or otherwise, his work with – amongst others – Cork Improvised Music Company, The Bonk, Senior Infants, and not least his primary project, Fixity, speaks for itself. Fixity 7, his latest with the latter, came out last week, and continues to push forward his exploratory practice. Get a listen to some of the music that’s informed Walsh creatively over the years, from Johnny Keating and Ivor Cutler to The Hives and Teenage Jesus & The Jerks. Johnny Keating – Listen I…

  • The Altered Hours – Convertible

    November 1, 2021 - By 

    Given that they’ve been releasing music for a full decade now, it’s easy to forget that Cork quintet The Altered Hours are only now releasing their second full length album, Convertible. It must be down to the quality of the EPs they’ve released along the way – no mere stopgaps, releases like 2013’s Sweet Jelly Roll or 2018’s On My Tongue house so much of their most essential material. Debut long player In Heat Not Sorry surfaced in 2016 – an excellent collection of tracks, but one that often took a slower and starker direction than previous releases in a…