• Django Django Unveil New Video, Announce Dublin Show

    October 23, 2017 - By 

    Ahead of releasing their forthcoming third album Marble Skies on January 26, Django Django have announced that they’ll play Dublin’s Tivoli Theatre on March 2 as part of a forthcoming UK and European Tour. Accompanying the announcement is the foursome’s new single ‘Tic Tac Toe’, featuring a video courtesy of John Maclean. Speaking about the video, Maclean said, “The film could be about the fading era of the beach arcades, time moving too fast, love and games, horror and happiness but it is actually about a man who needs to go buy a pint of milk to make a cup of…

  • Flight of the Conchords sing Flight of the Conchords Tour Set For Dublin

    October 23, 2017 - By 

    Grammy Award-winning folk comedy duo Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie AKA Flight of the Conchords are set for Dublin next year. As part of their first UK and Irish tour in 7 years, the pair will bring the “Flight of the Conchords sing Flight of the Conchords Tour” to 3arena on March 25. The arena and theatre tour will also stop off in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Dublin, Glasgow, Leeds, and Liverpool. Tickets from €28 including booking and facility fees go on sale this Friday 27 October at 10am.

  • Premiere: Bear Worship – Frequency

    October 20, 2017 - By 

    Back in June we were very pleased to premiere one of our favourite Irish albums of the year, WAS by Dublin’s Karl Knuttel AKA Bear Worship. A release we called “a prismatic traipse of melodically rich, compositionally ambitious alt-pop” the album peaked on various tracks, not least new single ‘Frequency’. Backed by b-side ‘Post Geographical Orientalism – a beautifully woven, Grandaddy-esque effort – the single is a layered, synth-washed gem that sees Knuttel’s beatific vocal take centre-stage. We’re all over this, and you should be, too. Frequency/Post Geographical Orientalism by Bear Worship

  • Video Premiere: Best Boy Grip – Molecular Individuals

    October 20, 2017 - By 

    Having already received support from the likes of Steve Lamacq and Tom Robinson on BBC 6 Music, ‘Molecular Individuals’ by Eoin O’Callaghan AKA Best Boy Grip is a track perfectly typical of the Derry musician’s ever-ambitious sonic scope. Summoning the likes of Talking Heads, The Books, Peter Gabriel and LCD Soundsystem – and that’s just touching the surface – it’s a masterfully giddy, wonderfully polychromatic effort that confines within its three-and-a-half-minutes O’Callaghan’s serious multi-instrumentalist flair. Heard the new Beck album yet? This one track is ten times better than that. Take note, Hansen. The track is out via Amelia Records now. Buy it…

  • Interview: Come On Live Long

    October 18, 2017 - By 

    Ahead of playing the final RHA Hennessy Lost Friday on the year on Friday night, we talk to Louise Gaffney from Dublin indie/alternative-pop maestros Come On Live Long about progression, perfectionism, influence and the importance of enjoying the moment. Go here for more info about the show. Hi, Louise. Your second album, In The Still, was released back in May. It’s right up there with the best Irish albums of the year. How was the songwriting process for this one? The songwriting process for In The Still was a little different to how it had been for the previous record. The…

  • RHA’s Hennessy Lost Friday

    October 18, 2017 - By 

    Marking its final outing for 2017, RHA’S Hennessy Lost Friday returns on this Friday (October 20) with another first-rate bill. As well as a performance from Columbia Mills and a set from DJ Alex Donald, indie-pop maestros Come On Live Long will also make an appearance on the night. The latter’s second studio, In The Still, was released earlier this year to a wave of critical acclaim (something we will touch upon when we chat with the band ahead of this frankly unmissable show.) Besides the carefully-curated music bill, this Hennessy Lost Friday will also feature walking tours of the…

  • Stream: Wyvern Lingo – Out Of My Hands

    October 6, 2017 - By 

    We’ve watched the rise and rise of Bray trio Wyvern Lingo with absolute glee over the last couple of years. As well as announcing their first Irish show of 2018 at Number Twenty Two at Dublin’s Grand Social on February 23, the trio have just unveiled the masterful ‘Out Of My Hands’. Brimming with the band’s increasingly inimitable brand of harmony-driven alt-pop, it is also the band’s most political effort to date. Speaking about the track, Karen from the band said, “’Out of My Hands’ was inspired by a man I met in a pub, the night of the Home Sweet…

  • Album Stream: Malojian – Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home

    October 6, 2017 - By 

    While there’s been no shortage of first-rate albums released on these shores this year, Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home by Malojian is a special kind of triumph. The self-produced follow-up to the Stephen Scullion-fronted threesome’s Steve Albini-produced This Is Nowhere, the album is a masterfully mottled effort, veering between wonderfully wistful folk tales, Motorik rhythms, found sound and a whole gamut of forward-thinking textures and ideas. And featuring the likes of Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M., Atoms For Peace, Roger Waters), Gerry Love (Teenage Fanclub), the collaborative backbone of the release runs parallel with Scullion’s open-ended, subtly experimental approach here. Partly…

  • Stream: A.S. Fanning – Never Been Gone

    October 6, 2017 - By 

    Self-produced and recorded in his current home of Berlin, Dublin singer-songwriter A.S Fanning will release his debut album, Second Life, via Proper Octopus Records on October 13. Having made a dent via his debut single ‘Carmelita’ back in late 2015 – a carefully-crafted, almost Cohen-esque track we said “harked back whilst preserving a very present-day resonance” – new single ‘Never Been Gone’ is a deceptively refined effort, whose lilting folk-pop effulgence blends organ, fingerpicked guitar, a sweet little whistle solo and more over three minutes. Few artists can make music with two chords go a long way – Fanning makes…

  • Album Stream: Elder Druid – Carmina Satanae

    October 6, 2017 - By 

    Recorded at Belfast’s Start Together with Niall Doran, Carmina Satanae by Belfast sludge-doom five-piece Elder Druid marks the arrival of one of the country’s most promising low-end propositions. Officially launched at Belfast’s Bar Sub tonight, the release filters the holy tetrad of Black Sabbath, Electric Wizard, Kyuss and Sleep across eight tracks of psych-dappled, occult-leaning heft. Speaking to us about the dark lyricism that steers the album, guitarist Jake Wallace told us, “It gives the songs a lot more depth having stories being told underneath all the riffs and not just random babbling. Gregg has a very imaginative thought process and…