• Video Premiere: Caoilian Sherlock – Candidate

    March 6, 2023 - By 

    It’s mind-melting to think it’s been nine whole years since we featured Caoilian Sherlock as part of our Track Record feature. As well as pushing forward as frontman of indie-psych foursome The Shaker Hymn, the Cork musician has also carved out a distinctive path under his own name. On singles like ‘Sucker For Love,’ and last year’s four-track EP Big Child, Sherlock’s alternative folk pop has burrowed deep, authentic and earworming. Just last month, Sherlock returned with arguably his finest single to date ‘Candidate’. Produced and mixed by Brendan Fennessy, and featuring Shane Murphy on drums (with additional drums by…

  • Premiere: Hands Up Who Wants To Die – Nil All

    March 2, 2023 - By 

    If there’s been a better, more defiantly emphatic noise rock band to come out of Ireland in the last 15 years than Hands Up Who Wants To Die, we positively haven’t heard them. On albums including 2014’s Vega In The Lyre, they have served up their singular brand of trouncing, skull-blasting heft. Now, six years on from their last release – a split with B.O.B. following the amicable departure of original frontman Barry Lennon – the band are back with their long-awaited third LP, Nil All. Teaming up once again with long-time collaborators John ‘Spud’ Murphy (Black Midi, Lankum, Caroline) and…

  • Premiere: Feather Beds – Really Disney

    February 22, 2023 - By 

    Over the last few years, Dublin’s Michael Orange aka Feather Beds has proven himself to be one of the country’s most forward-pushing experimental pop auteurs. Spanning dream-pop, shoegaze, electronica, ambient, and experimentalism, his music has sedated, burrowed and curveballed in equal measure on releases including 2015’s ‘Ah Stop’. This May, the London-based artist and producer will release his highly-anticipated third studio album, Softer Measures. Having snuck a preview, we’re certain it’ll go down as one of the year’s most inspired, palette-spanning full-length releases. To help make the case, today, we’re very pleased to premiere the album’s lead single, ‘Really Disney’.…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 17th February

    February 17, 2023 - By 

    It’s been another stacked week for Irish music. Here’s the best singles and albums released over the last seven days, featuring Lemonade Shoelace, New Pagans, Iona Zajac, Caoilian Sherlock, Alpha Chrome Yayo, The Wood Burning Savages and more Lemonade Shoelace – Hopscotch In The Sky Alpha Chrome Yayo – All Aboard All Aboard by Alpha Chrome Yayo ​ Iona Zajac – Rubbish Jubilee Caoilian Sherlock – Candidate Candidate by Caoilian Sherlock The Wood Burning Savages – Hand to Mouth Hand to Mouth by The Wood Burning Savages Cobra Truth – Two Lovely Little Pets Henry Likely – Handover Sloucho – Everything/Readymade…

  • The Road to Great Escape announces full schedule

    February 17, 2023 - By 

    Ahead of its 2023 return and after selling-out its two-day passes, the full schedule for each of the four Dublin venues has been announced for The Road To The Great Escape. The two-day festival is taking place on Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th May 2023 in across Whelan’s, Grand Social, Workman’s Club, and Academy 2. Venue tickets €15.90 including booking fees on sale today Friday 17th February at 10AM Additions to the line-up include Canadian singer Cate, gothic post-rock Londoner Heartworms, multi-platinum selling songwriter RØRY, party animals Fat Dog, RCA signee Isabel Larosa, YouTuber Hannah Grae and Scottish folk artist…

  • Premiere: Niamh Keane – Imprints

    February 14, 2023 - By 

    Dublin singer-songwriter Niamh Keane is an artist fast on the rise. Hailing from Clondalkin Co. Dublin, the vocalist, pianist and violinist’s considered folk craft makes space for light and shade with a singular nuance. Her upcoming single, ‘Imprints’, is a textbook case in point. Set for release next Wednesday, February 22, it’s a gossamer ode to unconditional love that, across two contrasting chord progressions, gently pivots between a sense of darkness and release. “Imprints is essentially a tribute to that unconditional love that you are so lucky to feel from a grandparent or a parent,” said Keane, who cites Laura…

  • Another Love Story Announces First Acts

    February 14, 2023 - By 

    Another Love Story have announced the first acts to play this year’s festival. Hands down one of the island’s most wonderfully singular small festival experiences, Another Love Story returns to Killyon Manor in Co. Meath across 18th-20th August 2023. And judging by the first line-up drop, it’s set to be yet another carefully-crafted programme across three days and nights. With many more acts to be announced, today, the festival announce British techno sorcerer and psychedelic shaman James Holden, Berlin-based Peruvian producer Sofia Kourtesis, Irish trad titan Martin Hayes, Rachael Lavelle & The Glasshouse Ensemble, Theon Cross, Charlie Bones and Moving Still. Including…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 10th February

    February 10, 2023 - By 

    Here’s the very best music released across the island this week, featuring Lisa O’Neill, Gilla Band, Chalk, Erica Cody, Badhands and more Lisa O’Neill – All Of This Is Chance All Of This Is Chance by Lisa O’Neill Gilla Band – Sports Day Pôt-pot – A4 A4 by pôt-pot Erica Cody – Cry Baby Chalk – Static Badhands – Movie Nights Derek Ellard and The Future Business – Three Sheets To The Wind Neosupervital – Back To What

  • Win Tickets To Death Grips in Dublin

    February 8, 2023 - By 

    Yesterday, Californian experimental hip-hop titans Death Grips announced their highly-anticipated return, which takes in a show at the Academy in Dublin on 18th June. Ahead of tickets going on sale on Friday, we are giving away guestlist +1 for the show. To be in with a chance of winning, simply head over to our Instagram page here to enter. Good luck!

  • Sound Studio Residency at Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny

    February 8, 2023 - By 

    Letterkenny’s Regional Cultural Centre have made an open call for applications for a new residency series. Throughout 2023, the vital North West cultural hub will invite electronic musicians, composers, alternative producers and creative designers to take up residency in their new Sound Studio. Rather than a traditional record studio, it’s a creative space equipped with an iMAC PRO, audio interface and a wide range of acoustic and electronic compositional tools including a baby grand piano, church organ, Moog One 16, SOMA Pulsar-23, Behringer Odyssey, Dave Smith Prophet Module, Arturia PolyBrute, NORD Stage 3 and “many more weird and wonderful noise-makers”.…