Spacey Jane live at The Academy in Dublin with support from Sarah Crean. Photos by Kate Lawlor
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Death Grips have announced their long-awaited return, taking in a Dublin show this summer. As part of their first shows since 2019, the Californian experimental hip-hop group will play the Academy on Sunday, 18th June. It marks their first show in the city since 2016. Tickets cost €39.50 and go on sale at 10am on Friday, 10th February. Revisit a Death Grips classic below.
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Like every fervently masturbating gamer with a penchant for online poker, a nappy and a shut-in level of social ineptitude – I’ve become a retail trader of stocks. The gamification of finance on apps like eToro has made it such that you can easily understand the white sheets (if you can be bothered to read them) and you can doomscroll the comments for ‘picks’ and to remind yourself that men are the literal worst. ‘Bears’ or ‘Bulls’ adds a beautiful homoerotic wink to the pink-sword measuring duel that is the world of online traders. There’s a cosmic explosion anytime a…
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Gilla Band have dropped a new single, ‘Sports Day’. The b-side to Eight Fivers – which was accompanied by the announcement of their third album Most Normal last July – it’s a slowly unfurling and suitably stifling effort from the Dublin quartet. Today, the band have also announced four more UK/EU dates in what’s shaping up to be a busy schedule in 2023. Check those and Michael Speed’s visuals for ‘Sports Day’ below.
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Myles O’Reilly embarked on a self described world tour of Cork, performing at Prim’s Bookshop in Kinsale, Coughlan’s Bar in Ballintemple and DeBarra’s Folk Club in Clonakilty. Photos by John Sheehy
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Girlfriend live at the Spirit Store in Dundalk. Photos by David McEneaney
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Wilco have announced two Irish shows. Courtesy of Open House Festival, the band will also play Belfast’s Mandela Hall on Wednesday, 6th September. It comes 13 years to the month from their last show with the promoters. Marking their first show in the city since playing Iveagh Gardens festival back in 2016 (revisit our gallery from the show here) the Chicago indie legends will also play 3Olympia Theatre on Friday, 8th September. Wilco last played 3Olympia Theatre back in 1999. News of the show comes hours on from the Jeff Tweedy-fronted band winning Best Historical Album for the 20th Anniversary edition of…
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Skinner live at the Roisin Dubh in Galway with support from Search Results. Photos by Mark Earley
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Editors live at The National Stadium in Dublin. Photos by Leah Carroll
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On this, the first Bandcamp Friday of 2023, delve into the very best Irish releases of the week, featuring Lankum, M(h)aol, Pretty Happy, Elaine Howley, White Sage, Gurriers, Trá Pháidín, Swimmers Jackson and more M(h)aol – Attachment Styles Attachment Styles by M(h)aol Lankum – Go Dig My Grave Pretty Happy – Conn Boxing White Sage – Car Park Space Jazz Car Park Space Jazz by White Sage Gurriers – Approachable Banrion – Dare to Crush dare to crush by banríon Swimmers Jackson – Stripped Away Stripped Away (Radio Edit) by Swimmers Jackson Elaine Howley – Mark It X Daniel Luke –…