• Through, Not Around: An Interview with Daniel Bedingfield

    April 17, 2025 - By 

    “For most of my life, I’ve lived with enormous, driven agony. Now, I wake up and I’m okay. Someone dies – I grieve, but I’m still okay. I could lose everything – money, reputation – and I’d still be okay. Something in me has healed, at a core level.” Go on there: forget everything you thought you knew about Daniel Bedingfield. What you thought you knew was only the sudden glint on the surface of something far deeper, freer, and more alive. You probably got the memo: he appeared, seemingly fully formed, back in 2001, an unknown Kiwi-Londoner with a…

  • Groove Communion: Meet Deeply Armed

    April 10, 2025 - By 

    Belfast’s Deeply Armed have been making subterranean waves for a while now. Tracks passed hand to hand via samizdat channels. Whispers between heads. Andrew Weatherall was an early booster. David Holmes played out a psychedelic version of one track at select ritual-like occasions. But now the trio break cover with ‘The Healing,’ a debut 12” that feels like a signal flare from a long-dormant dream. The release comes bolstered by remixes from Andrew Innes (Primal Scream) and Brendan Lynch (Paul Weller/Lynch Mob) and Keith Tenniswood (2 Lone Swordsmen/Radioactive Man), a trio of producers who know a thing or two about…

  • 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…