• Girls Names Announce New Album, Belfast & Dublin Shows

    March 26, 2018 - By 

    Marking the release of their forthcoming, Tough Love-released fourth album album, Stains on Silence, Belfast three-piece Girls Names have announced new dates in Belfast and Dublin. The Cathal Cully-fronted threesome will play Belfast’s Black Box on Friday, June 15 and Whelan’s in Dublin on Saturday, June 23. Tickets for the former are £14.50 (Black Box Members £12); Dublin is €16. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, March 28 at 10am and 9am respectively. Following 2015’s blitzing Arms Around a Vision, and the parting of drummer Gib Cassidy just over a year later, Girls Names suddenly found themselves facing down a looming void. Frontman Cathal…

  • Stream: Dandy’s Loft – Human Dust

    March 23, 2018 - By 

    We have sang the praises of Belfast-based five-piece Dandy’s Loft for some time now. The band, who call Lurgan home, are set to release their highly-anticipated debut album in the coming months. New single and follow-up to January’s ‘Shadows In Motion‘ is the ‘Human Dust’, a self-proclaimed glimpse into the band’s less guitar-orientated material on the album and a real spectral feat. Via a mélange of strings, submerged vocals, synthesiser and some stellar production work, it single-handedly reveals Dandy’s Loft to be much more than any safe or straightforward genre attributed to them thus far. In short: this is vital, inspired and majestic stuff. Stream below.

  • Premiere: tethers – Television Dreams of Human Beings

    March 22, 2018 - By 

    Formed by friends, guitarist/vocalist Zach Trouton and bassist Dane Kemp, and later joined by drummer Alistair Brattle, tethers are a Northern Irish three-piece whose rock-pop sound bears the imprint of jazz and contemporary classical influence, as well as the lyrical influence of science fiction and folklore. Next month, the band will release their debut EP, Skinwalker, via their own imprint, Swallow Song records. According to the Lisburn-based threesome, they’re re-envisioning the term – which, in Navajo folklore, denotes a shape-shifting with that possesses the forms of animals – “as a future slang for artificially-enhanced humanoids”. Doubling up as both the release’s lead track and tethers’…

  • Snow Patrol Announce Seven-Date Irish Tour

    March 21, 2018 - By 

    Snow Patrol have announced a seven-date Irish tour ahead of the release of their new album, Wildness, set on May 25. Marking the Northern Irish band’s first live dates in five years, Gary Lightbody and co. will play the following. Derry – Millennium Forum 11th May Cork – Opera House 12th May Killarney – INEC 14th May Dublin – Olympia 15th May Wexford – Opera House 16th May Galway – Leisureland 18th May Belfast – Ulster Hall 20th May Tickets go on Friday, March 30 at 10am.

  • Ariel Pink Set For Dublin Show

    March 21, 2018 - By 

    It’s been announced that L.A. lo-fi multi-instrumentalist maestro Ariel Marcus Rosenberg aka Ariel Pink will play Dublin’s Button Factory on August 16. Co-promoted by Aiken and Skinny Wolves, tickets for the show are on sale now priced €22. Ariel Pink released his stellar 11th studio album, Dedicated to Bobby Jameson, via Mexican Summer back in September last year.

  • Bloc Party Set for Silent Alarm Show at 3Arena

    March 19, 2018 - By 

    As part of a run of six European shows, Bloc Party will perform their debut album, Silent Alarm, at Dublin’s 3Arena on October 22. Hands down their finest hour, Silent Alarm was released to critical and commercial acclaim in 2005. The double A-side ‘So Here We Are/Positive Tension’, ‘Banquet’ and ‘Pioneers’ were released as singles. Tickets are on sale on Monday, March 25 at 9am, priced €49.50 including booking fee.

  • Premiere: Bosco Ramos – Mayflies

    March 19, 2018 - By 

    Belfast bass and drums punk rock duo Bosco Ramos made a sizable dent with the release of their fuzzed-out debut EP, Signs of Life, last year. Today, they’re back with their most emphatic single effort to date in the form of nuanced, unravelling alt rock blitz ‘Mayflies’. A song about “harnessing that thing which allows you to think for yourself and resist what you know to be wrong” it’s a typically groove-laden assault from Phil Brown (bass/vocals) and Callum McGeown (drums/vocals), rounded off with the pair’s progressively singular brand of melodic-yet-pummelling punk rock. In other words, we fucking love it. ‘Mayflies’ is…