• Watch: The Gloaming – The Booley House

    February 21, 2018 - By 

    Ahead of the release of their Live at the NCH on March 2, The Gloaming have launched the video for their new seven-minute single ‘The Booley House’. Speaking of the track – which is taken from the forthcoming release – the band said “We’ve much enjoyed [illustrator] Jacob Stack’s illustrations and videos over the years and so took much delight in his new drawing that celebrates the release of Live at the NCH. Here’s Jacob in action, set to the new live version of The Booley House.” True to form, it’s an unravelling, wonderfully enchanting effort from the band – brought to life…

  • First Thirty Acts Announced For Knockanstockan 2018

    February 20, 2018 - By 

    The first 30 acts set to play this year’s Knockanstockan have been announced. Set to return to Blessington Lakes in Co. Wicklow across July 28-29, the following acts – including many TTA favourites including Slouch, Farah Elle (pictured), Yankari, The Bonk, Super Silly and Paddy Hanna – make up the first line-up reveal: Bantum, Humans of the Sesh, ROE, JyellowL, Navá, Sim Simma Sound System, Bicurious, Akora, Chancer, The Olllam, Moon Looks On, Spudgun, Munky, Farah Elle, Deborah, Yankari, The Scratch, The Bonk, Vernon Jane, Slouch, The Hot Sprockets, Grand, Simon Bird, Ailie Blunnie, Super Silly, Wood Burning Savages, Paddy Hanna, Elaine Mai, Cúla Búla and Kojaque. Tickets for Saturday…

  • Fleet Foxes, Underworld, Chaka Khan and More For All Together Now Festival

    February 19, 2018 - By 

    A brand new August Bank Holiday taking place at Curraghmore Estate in County Waterford, the first acts for the inaugural All Together Now have been announced. With many more yet to be revealed, Fleet Foxes, Underworld, Róisín Murphy, Chaka Khan, First Aid Kit, Mura Masa, Nils Frahm, Mogwai, Jimmy Cliff, The New Power Generation, Groove Armada (DJ Set), Kelela, The Black Madonna, Booka Shade, Hot Chip Megamix, Maribou State, Ghostpoet, Talos, Saul Williams, Jape, This Is The Kit, Horse Meat Disco, Saint Sister, Shanti Celeste, Grandbrothers, Books Brass, whenyoung, Fish Go Deep, Biig Piff, David Keenan and Nialler9 make up the first names.…

  • HAIM Set For Olympia Show

    February 16, 2018 - By 

    Having last played the venue back in 2014, it’s been announced that Los Angeles trio HAIM will play Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on Tuesday, June 12. Tickets for the show – which takes place as part of the band’s UK and European tour this June – go on sale next Friday, February 23.

  • Stream: Simon Herron – For a Minute

    February 15, 2018 - By 

    Hailing from Derry, alternative-folk singer-songwriter Simon Herron plays, in his own words, “quiet, creaky, melancholy songs. Mostly.” It’s a wonderfully terse, and therefore very apt description for an artist who clearly chooses his word carefully in song. Taken from his forthcoming EP Now I’ve Closed My Eyes, ‘For a Minute’ is a wonderfully-woven tale of fingerpicked guitar patterns, sparse percussion and Herron’s evocative lyricism. Speaking of the track, the Liverpool-based musician said, “’For A Minute’ is essentially a tribute to the life and work of my late Grandfather, the Irish poet and playwright, Francis Harvey. His work deals with both the people and…

  • RDS to Host The Killers and Franz Ferdinand in June

    February 16, 2018 - By 

    Early-to-mid noughties NME nostalgists, rejoice: it’s been announced that the Killers and Franz Ferdinand will team up with for an open-air show at Dublin’s RDS on June 26. Tickets for the show are priced at €69.50 and go on sale on Friday, February 23. While we have you, here’s Jonny Currie’s verdict on the new Franz Ferdinand album, Always Ascending. Remember ‘Michael’? Feels like a lifetime ago, man.

  • Stream: Come On Live Long – Sum Of Its Parts (Rian Trench Remix)

    February 15, 2018 - By 

    Whether you look to his work as one-half of Solar Bears, his solo project Trenchurian, making up one quarter of Leo Drezden, or co-heading recording and production duo The Deaf Brothers with Robert Watson aka SCAN, Rian Trench is constantly finding new ways to demonstrate his remarkable versatility. Currently making his way through Mexico, the Wicklow producer and musician has recently released a suitably blissed-out re-imagining of ‘Sum of its Parts’ by Come On Live Long. Marrying flourishes of shapeshifting synth and a host of reposed beats, it’s a sublime effort that forges completely new from the original.

  • Album Stream: Stoat – Try Not To Think About It

    February 14, 2018 - By 

    As an album title, Try Not To Think About It by Dublin underground rock heroes Stoat goes a considerable distance in summing up one of its prevailing themes, i.e. things may not be the greatest they’ve ever been but, collectively, we could do a whole lot worse than trying to see the good and absurdity in things. Having been making music together for the best part of 20 years, the threesome’s wry, masterfully incisive brand of indie-pop is on full display on the album – their second – which was released on Saturday in Dublin. From to-do lists that never seem…

  • EP Stream: Perish – Inertia

    February 13, 2018 - By 

    At the start of the month, we shared ‘Terror Swimming’ by Cork-based band Perish. Calling it a “hazed-out trip bursting with submerged, starry-eyed guitar shapes and a wondrous wall of reverb-soaked noise” the single was a first-rate opening gambit from the Ciaran Corcoran-fronted project. The track is taken from the stellar Inertia, a brand new, five-track EP out via Cork imprint Sunshine Cult records, home to TTA favourites The Sunshine Factory. From the blissed-out noise-pop of opener Vision to the Motorik strut and swirling, effects-laden Kosmiche of closer ‘No Time’, it is hands down the strongest EP from an Irish act we’ve heard this…

  • Tune-Yards Set for Dublin and Galway Shows

    February 13, 2018 - By 

    In support of their new album, I can feel you creep into my private life, Tune-Yards have announced their return to Dublin and Galway this summer. Three years on from playing Vicar Street, the duo of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner will stop off at Tivoli Theatre in Dublin on July 10 and Galway’s Roisin Dublin on July 11. Tickets for the shows cost €24 and go on sale this Friday, February 16 at 10am. Read Dominic Edge’s review of I can feel you creep into my private life here.