• Stream: Slow Riot – City of Culture

    June 10, 2015 - By 

    Something of a statement of intent, the bio section of Limerick trio Slow Riot’s Facebook page reads, “Slow Riot came together make something altogether different. A soundtrack to a existential noir novel. Something you might here on the local radio station on a drive through Twin Peaks? Either way its all parts dark, brooding and core rattling.” Wearing their patent noise and post-punk influences on their collective sleeve, the band’s debut single, ‘City of Culture’, comes roaring out of the traps and conjures the likes of Art Brut, Wire, Interpol, Sonic Youth and Girl Band at different points throughout its three-and-half-minutes. Promising…

  • Watch: The Emerald Armada – This House

    June 10, 2015 - By 

    Hands down one of the country’s very best live acts, Northern Irish alt-folk trouveurs The Emerald Armada have spent the last few years building a loyal, suitably armada-like fanbase. With a new EP set for release in November – the highly-anticipated follow-up to last year’s sublime Five Beating Hearts EP – the Neil Allen-fronted five-piece have unveiled the video for their new single, ‘This House’. Betraying a real sense of pop-centric progression from the band, the video for the song – recorded by Start Together’s Rocky O’Reilly – was directed and edited by Wilson Lynn.  

  • Watch: MOLARBEAR – Highclops

    June 10, 2015 - By 

    A year on from grabbing our attention with their debut single, ‘Fierce Brosnan’, back in August last year, Belfast-based riffmasters general MOLARBEAR have unleashed the equal parts lethal and livid ‘Highclops’. Comprised of members from Jackalfeud and the Big Grizzly, the band recorded the six-minute track at Belfast’s Bearcat Studios. Its video, for all its inventiveness, borders on the nightmare-inducing. Nightmares you want to have and tell everyone about. Not that they’ll listen, but you’ll still tell them. Anyway. Watch the video for ‘Highclops’ below.

  • Body & Soul Day Breakdowns Revealed

    June 9, 2015 - By 

    With just over a week to go, the day-to-day breakdowns of this year’s Body & Soul festival have been revealed. Full times to be announced soon. Whereas the likes of Dan Deacon, Lamb and Savages will perform on the Friday, Super Furry Animals and are amongst the acts set for Saturday and Leftfield, , SOAK and Matthew E. White Go here to buy tickets for Body & Soul 2015. Check out our B&S Festival Mixtape here.

  • Watch: Travis Is A Tourist & Rosie Carney – Needed It

    June 9, 2015 - By 

    With a show together set for Belfast’s McHughs on Wednesday, June 24, Old Fang’s Travis Is A Tourist and Rosie Carney have teamed up to plaintive yet wonderfully lulling ‘Needed It’.  Recorded to mark Old Fang’s imminent first birthday celebration tour, the video was filmed by Ross McConaghy. Watch it below.    

  • Watch: Ciaran Lavery & Ryan Vail – The Sea At Night (Live)

    June 9, 2015 - By 

    Taken from their exceptional collaborative album, Sea Legs, ‘The Sea at Night’ by Ciaran Lavery and Ryan Vail is right up with our favourite Irish tracks of the year so far. Two months on from performing it at a decidedly intimate show at Derry’s Smalltown America records, the Northern Irish musicians pair have unveiled a wonderfully-shot video of the track by Paul Martin Brown, one that goes some distance in capturing the evocative, subtle and perfectle pensive light and shade of the song. Watch it below and buy the live version here.

  • Punk On Film @ Triskel Christchurch, Cork

    June 9, 2015 - By 

    Running from July 19-22, Cork’s Triskel Christchurch will play host to Punk on Film, a season celebrating the legacy of the seminal punk movement that epitomises late 70’s Britain. Amongst the screenings, The Damned: Don’t You Wish We Were Dead is a programme highlight with director Wes Orshoski at Triskel on Tuesday, July 21 to introduce the screening. The Sex Pistols documentary The Filth and The Fury, the 1977 film Punk In London and Rude Boy, the part fiction – part rockumentary film about The Clash, are also part of the season. Speaking of the screening of his Damned doc,…

  • 5 Years In The Trunk @ The Bernard Shaw, Dublin

    June 9, 2015 - By 

    On Thursday, June 25, The Bernard Shaw will host the launch of 5 Years In The Trunk, an exhibition by the Blind Elephant Illustration Collective. Held to celebrate the collective’s five years together in the Dublin venue (or as they call it, their “spiritual home”), on the night you can meet the Elephants new and old, have a drink or two, and check out some of their very best illustrations to date. The exhibition will run from June 25 to July 25. The launch night kicks off at 8pm. Go here to visit the Blind Elephant Illustration Collective.

  • With Full Force Festival 2015

    June 9, 2015 - By 

    It’s only a few weeks left until With Full Force festival will celebrate its 22nd year at Flugplatz Roitzschjora Germany. After a massive twentieth birthday bash in 2013 and yet another stellar line-up last year, one of the loudest and hardest music festivals in Germany brings the very best of metal, punk and hardcore to your ears once more from July 3 to July 5. With the likes of Agnostic Front, Kreator, In Flames, Sick of it All, Carcass, Fear Factory, In Flames and Heaven Shall Burn set to perform at the festival, you can check out the full line-up below. Go here…

  • David Kitt Announces Summer Tour

    June 8, 2015 - By 

    Having played two sold-out show at Dublin’s Odessa last month, David Kitt has announced a nationwide, nine-date Summer tour. Culminating on a show at Dublin’s Whelan’s on Friday, October 24, see the full list of shows below. Thursday, August 6: The Red Door, Co. Kilkenny. Tickets €10 + booking. Doors: 8.30pm Friday, August 7: Unitarian Church, St. Annes, Wexford. Tickets: €12.50. Doors: 8pm Sunday, August 9: The Spirit Store, Dundalk, Co. Louth. Tickets: €12.50. Doors: 8.30pm Thursday, August 13: Roisin Dubh, Galway. Tickets: €15 plus booking. Doors: 8.30pm Friday, August 14: Debarra’s, Clonakilty, Cork. Tickets €10. Doors: 8.30pm Saturday, August 15: –…