• Video Premiere: Field Trip – I Get Down

    March 27, 2025 - By 

    It’s been a while – too long – since we last heard from Galway’s Field Trip. And while we’ll get into the hows and whys of that shortly, the return alone is cause enough for celebration. Today, we’re pleased to premiere ‘I Get Down’, a textbook harmony-laced gem that reaffirms just why the triom became one of the country’s most quietly beloved garage-pop bands. Taken from their long-awaited debut LP, Foreign Land, it’s a track that reaches gently into the past and brings something timeless back with it: bittersweet, impossibly earworming jangle-pop. Formed in Galway and fondly remembered for a…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 14th March

    March 14, 2025 - By 

    Another beyond-deadly week for Irish music delivers brand new Search Results, Junior Brother, Nomadic Rituals, Deeply Armed, ghoulgirl, Swimmers Jackson x Stray Light, Awesimon & Pat Lagoon, and New Jackson. Search Results – Wrinkle Junior Brother – Take Guilt (Live at Vicar Street0 Nomadic Rituals – Fust Fust by Nomadic Rituals Deeply Armed – The Healing Swimmers Jackson x Stray Light – Stripped Away (Cold Fry Remix) ghoulgirl – not hanging around Awesimon & Pat Lagoon – One and Only New Jackson – LIVE ONES 2

  • The Fleadh Confirmed for Belfast Next Year

    March 8, 2025 - By 

    It’s confirmed: the Fleadh is coming to Belfast. For the first time ever, Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann is set to take over the city in August 2026, bringing hundreds of thousands of visitors, €70 million in economic impact, and an unreal week of trad, sessions, céilís and craic to Belfast. This is only the second time in 75 years that the world’s biggest traditional music festival has landed north of the border. After the massive success of Derry’s Fleadh in 2013, Belfast has its chance to leave its mark – and as a UNESCO City of Music, it’s more than…

  • Melvins are Coming Back to Dublin

    February 25, 2025 - By 

    Melvins – probably the greatest band in the world – return to Dublin this summer. The Buzz Osborne-fronted titans are hitting the road with the equally legendary Redd Kross for a UK/EU tour, stopping at the Button Factory on 18th August. Brought to you by the island’s most unfailingly reliable promoters, Foggy Notions and U:Mack, tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 AM. Don’t sleep.

  • Neil Young Set for Mahahide Castle Summer Show

    February 24, 2025 - By 

    Rumours have been swirling for a while and now it’s official: Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts are set to play Malahide Castle on 26 June as part of their newly announced Love Earth World Tour. With Van Morrison as a special guest, the show marks Young’s first performance in Ireland in several years. The tour kicks off on 18 June in Sweden before making its way across Europe and the UK, with a North American leg following in August. Young’s latest live band includes long-time collaborators Spooner Oldham, Micah Nelson, Corey McCormick and Anthony LoGerfo. Tickets, priced from €89.90,…

  • Monday Mixtape: Blue Slate

    February 24, 2025 - By 

    Fresh off the release of their debut EP This Is How I Sleep at Night via Blowtorch, rising Kildare’s quartet Blue Slate take us on a guided tour of their all-time favourite tracks—from Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails to Death Grips, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and beyond. James: The Brian Jonestown Massacre – The Devil May Care (Mom & Dad Don’t) It’s a sad song. Stripped back and raw. That’s probably why I like it so much. It evokes a strong sense of do it yourself – where all you need is a guitar and a microphone. But there’s…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 21st February

    February 21, 2025 - By 

    A stacked Friday round-up of essential new Irish sounds, featuring Chalk, Maria Somerville, The Null Club, Garrett Laurie, and more. Chalk – Conditions III The Null Club feat. Valentine Caulfield – Slip Angle Maria Somerville – Garden Garrett Laurie – Natalie Lucy Gaffney – Sigh Akrobat – Trumpet Ain’t No Gun Monday’s Child – Problem Girl Barry Peak – Ode to Pulman Ode to Pulman by Barry Peak

  • Stream: The Null Club – Slip Angle (feat Valentine Caulfield)

    February 20, 2025 - By 

    Without Alan Duggan Borges, the shape of contemporary Irish guitar music would be very different indeed. If you’ve even slightly followed Irish music over the last decade, you’ve heard Alan Duggan Borges. His work in Gilla Band hasn’t just pushed the boundaries of noise and post-punk (a term that has of course been curiously appropriated left, right and centre in recent times): it redrew the map entirely. Without him, the current wave of young Irish guitar bands simply wouldn’t exist in the same way. But with The Null Club, his new project, Borges steps away from six-string obliteration and into…

  • Cúirt Launches 40th Anniversary Programme

    February 20, 2025 - By 

    The Cúirt International Festival of Literature returns to Galway this April for its 40th edition – and what a programme it is. Since its beginnings as a three-day poetry festival in 1985, Cúirt has grown into an essential fixture in the literary calendar, a meeting ground for world-class writers and new voices alike. This year, the festival honours its past while celebrating the future of literature from April 8th-13th. Kicking things off in fitting style, Paul Muldoon and Sally Rooney will open proceedings at the Town Hall Theatre, setting the tone for a week of remarkable conversations, readings and performances.…