• Win Tickets to O Emperor @ Quarter Block Party 2018

    January 8, 2018 - By 

    Waterford psych-pop five-piece O Emperor will mark their long-awaited return as part of this year’s frankly unmissable Quarter Block Party on Friday, February 2. Better still, we have a pair of tickets to give away to the show. Quarter Block Party will take over Cork city’s historic spine across February 2-4, with venues in Peter’s Church, Triskel Christchurch, Spailpín Fánach, and AMP set to play host to a stellar range of pop-up and public music, theatre and dance events. Co-presented by Makeshift Ensemble and Southern Hospitality Board, the Old Quarter will, for the fourth year running, put the focus on all that Cork…

  • Stream: Dandy’s Loft – Shadows In Motion

    January 2, 2018 - By 

    Set to release their debut album in the first quarter of 2018, Lurgan indie quintet Dandy’s Loft well and truly grabbed our attention last June with their four-track debut EP, Introspector. Seven months on, the band are back with the ‘Shadows In Motion’. The lead single from their upcoming LP, it picks up where Introspector left off, proving a carefully crafted and masterfully mournful effort conjuring the likes of Grizzly Bear, Department of Eagles and The Black Heart Procession. As first gambits for upcoming debut albums go, this is right up there with the most promising we’ve heard from an Irish act in quite…

  • Album Stream: Crevice – In Heart

    December 18, 2017 - By 

    Comprised of Irene Buckley of Wry Myrrh, Elaine Howley of the Altered Hours and Morning Veils, and solo artist, Morning Veils member and co-runner of KantCope, Roslyn Steer, the music of Crevice was made for these early dark evenings and associated end-of-year contemplation. Recorded by Cathal Mac Gabhann (also of The Altered Hours), their debut album, In Heart, is a ten-track journey masterfully blurring the lines between electronic nocturnalism, balmy darkwave and sleepy-headed dream-pop. Released via Irish cassette label Fort Evil Fruit today, the album – which was mastered by Noel Summerville, and features a great cover image from Carolyn Collier – conjures the smalltown phantasm…

  • Quarter Block Party Reveal Full Line-Up

    December 18, 2017 - By 

    The full line-up has been announced for Quarter Black Party 2018. Set to take over various venues in North and South Main Street in Cork across Friday 2 to Sunday February 4,  the folow artists will perform: O Emperor, Percolator, Pillow Queens, The Sunshine Factory, Tandem Felix (pictured above), Yenkee, Lowlek, Hawkbastard, Rory Francis O’Brien, Cal Folger Day, Davy Kehoe, Robbie Kitt, Andy Wilson & The Toys, Bad Bones, Fuzzy Hell, Pale Rivers, Damsel, Elaine Malone, HEX, Postcard Versions, God Alone and PowPig. Elsewhere, there’ll be DJs in the form of Ben Bix, Dim The Lights, and Stevie G, as well as Vinyl…

  • Stream: Wyvern Lingo – Snow II (Arvo Party Remix)

    December 15, 2017 - By 

    Via the likes of his 1/1/2017 EP, this stellar John Carpenter cover in back in October, remixes for the likes of Rory Nellis and New Pagans and the release of his Northern Ireland Music Prize-nominated self-titled debut album – one of our Irish albums of the year, no less – it’s safe to say Belfast producer and musician Herb Magee AKA Arvo Party has a very strong 2017. Sealing the deal on the last few months is Magee’s brand new remix of ‘Snow II’ by Wyvern Lingo, a six-minute electro re-imagining that nocturnalises the original in fine fashion. Having already confirmed his…

  • Justice, Bonobo, Vince Staples and More For Forbidden Fruit

    December 15, 2017 - By 

    With the likes of The War on Drugs, Grizzly Bear and Thundercat already announced, Forbidden Fruit has revealed eight new acts set to play its 2018 outing. With more still to be announced, Justice (above), Bonobo, Vince Staples, Glass Animals, Bicep (Live), Denis Sulta, Hunee and Ross from Friends have all been added. Forbidden Fruit 2018 takes place at The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham in Dublin 8 across the June Bank Holiday (June 2-4). Ranging from €64.50 to €162.50, tickets are on sale now.

  • Kamasi Washington, John Talabot, Little Dragon and More Added to the Bill for Beatyard 2018

    December 14, 2017 - By 

    Although they’ve always delivered in the past, the line-up for next year’s Beatyard is shaping up to be something rather special. Set to return to Dun Laoghaire Harbour across the Bank Holiday Weekend of August 4 and 5, the festival has revealed Kamasi Washington, Little Dragon, The Sugarhill Gang, The Skatalites, John Talabot, Joy Orbison, Modeselektor (DJ Set), Le Boom, I Am The Cosmos, Bad Bones and Bodytonic DJs have joined the bill. With more acts still to be announced, see the full current line-up below. Go here to buy tickets.

  • Video Premiere: Le Boom – Don’t Need It Now

    December 14, 2017 - By 

    It’s been a great year for Dublin’s Christy Leech and Aimie Mallon AKA Le Boom. Having accumulated 230,000 Spotify plays for their debut single ‘What We Do’, the pair’s propulsive brand of electronic house-pop undoubtedly won them a host of new fans at the likes of Body & Soul, Electric Picnic, Latitude, Hard Working Class Heroes. Castlepalooza, Sea Sessions and Indiependence throughout 2017. Created by Conor McCormick, the video for their new single, the DFA-conjuring, party-starting ‘Don’t Need It Now’, captures features the twosome tear it up at the aforementioned festivals and more. Have a first peek at that below.

  • Alanis Morissette For Dublin and Cork Shows

    December 14, 2017 - By 

    Ten years on from playing Dublin’s Marlay Park as part of her Flavors of Entanglement tour, it’s been announced that Alanis Morissette will return to Ireland for two shows next year. The multi-platinum selling Canadian-American musician will play Cork’s Live at the Marquee on July 4 and Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens on July 5. Tickets go on sale on Monday – December 18 – at 9am. Alanis Morissette has released eight studio albums, most recently 2012’s Havoc and Bright Lights. Her international debut album, Jagged Little Pill, topped the charts in in ten countries, with sales of over 33 million units…

  • Beck and Yeah Yeah Yeahs Set For 3Arena

    December 13, 2017 - By 

    The rumours are true: Beck and Yeah Yeah Yeahs will team up for a show at Dublin’s 3Arena on May 23. While Beck released his 13th studio album, Colors, back in October, YYYs are back on tour for the first time in four years following the release of Mosquito. Tickets are priced from €58.50 includes booking fee and go on sale Monday at 9am.