The Divine Comedy live at 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin with support from Ren Harvieu. Photos by Kevin Hennessy
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Anna Mieke live at the Irish Arts Center in New York. Photos by Celeste Burdon
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Another great week of Irish music sees new releases from the established likes of SOAK, Fixity, Talos Sean Being and Melts, while some debut singles & EPs drop from Yard and Pastiche. Fixity – Always Again [feat. Philip Christie] Sean Being – Faux Window FAUX WINDOW by Seán Being Yard – Lawmaker Melts – Spectral SPECTRAL by MELTS Soak – Swear Jar Talos – Dance Against the Calm Pastiche – Freak Show Symphony EP
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Maverick Sabre live at Cyprus Avenue in Cork. Photos by Philip Corkery
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Dublin dream pop artist Henry Earnest has shared a new music video for “Free”. Check it out below. It’s the second video to be shared from Earnest’s recent album, Dream River, following December’s visualiser for ‘Trouble feat. Banríon’. “Free” is directed by Dublin-based photographer, cinematographer and visual director Sophie O’Donovan. In it, we see Earnest on a stage, bathed in pastel-hued pink and blue light, dancing next to a street lamp beneath a glowing moon. Simultaneously subtle and radiant, the video captures the atmosphere of Dream River perfectly. Self-released in February, the seven-track album blends lo-fi bedroom indie pop a…
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Myriad acts earmarked as “ones to watch” have, by virtue of any number of factors – both real and imaginary – have ceased to exist since time immemorial. Such is the way of the music industry; that cripplingly fickle clusterfuck of a fever dream that many of us, for one reason or another, dedicate a sizable portion of our lives to with little to no recompense, fiscal, metaphysical, or otherwise. And frankly, we wouldn’t have it any other way, for it’s more or less all in the pursuit. Which conveniently brings us to YARD, a Dublin quartet kneeling (and very well at that) at the altar…
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Oh Sees at the Button Factory in Dublin last night with support from Crack Cloud. Photos by Harry Rich
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Warpaint live at the National Stadium in Dublin with support from Low Hum. Photos by Stuart Hayes
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Kendrick Lamar is set to make his Dublin return. Off the back of his new, critically-acclaimed fifth album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, the trailblazing rapper will play 3Arena on Sunday, November 13. Support on the night comes from Baby Keem and Tanna Leone. Tickets for the show – which marks Lamar’s first show in the city since 2018 – are priced from €70 and go on sale at 12pm on Friday, May 20th here.
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Here’s the very best Irish tracks of the week, featuring Aoife Nessa Frances, Post Punk Podge & The Technohippies, NIMF and more. Aoife Nessa Frances – Emptiness Follows Post Punk Podge & The Technohippies – The Living Wake NIMF – A Ballad for Looking into Time A Ballad for Looking into Time by nimf Cabin – Whatever You Have Cabin · Whatever You Have SELK – No Saviours No Saviours by SELK Lisa Canny – Medicine Rosie Carney – Tidal Wave Wastefellow – Post Credits Scene Seba Safe – I’m On Fire