• Listen Back To This Week’s Death Culture Blues on Dublin Digital Radio

    November 23, 2018 - By 

    We returned to Dublin Digital Radio last night for our weekly two-hour show, Death Culture Blues. As ever, it was 120 minutes of cosmic and cosy sounds, this week featuring the likes of Yo La Tengo, Spark Sparkle, Wire, The Monochrome Set, Spacemen 3, Liars, Stereolab, BEAK> Faust and more. Miss it? Never fear. Stream below now and tune in this coming Thursday (November 30th), where our reviews editor Eoin Murray will be serving up only the very best experimental, ambient, electronic and cosmic sounds from 8-10pm.

  • Win Two Golden Tickets to Other Voices

    November 23, 2018 - By 

    Next weekend sees the return of the downright unmissable Other Voices to Dingle in Co. Kerry. As well as hosting the likes of Gruff Rhys, Loah, Mahalia and whenyoung in St. James’ Church, the showcase’s legendary Hennessy Music Trail welcomes a host of the country’s very best musical talent, including Arvo Party, Just Mustard, Junior Brother, Girlfriend, Silverbacks, Fears, Dowry, Elma Orkestra, Galants, Jyellowl and Wastefellow. Full line-up below. As it happens, we have a pair of golden tickets to give away to this year’s outing. Fancy heading to Dingle and seeing everything on offer? Just Like our Facebook page here, and…

  • Bouts Announce Tour, Stream ‘Love’s Lost Landings (Part 2)’

    November 21, 2018 - By 

    Dublin indie rock quartet Bouts are about to hit the road for the first time in almost five years in support of their new album, Flow. The 9-track album – which is released on January 25th 2019 and available for pre-order from today on Wonky Karousel Records – will be available on a limited run of 100 vinyl records. Half of the run will sold exclusively on their UK and Irish tour which kicks off in London with two shows (Lion Coffee + Records and The Finsbury) on Saturday, January 26th. The tour then moves to Ireland for a series of five Irish shows:…

  • The Messthetics (feat. Ex-Fugazi) Announce Dublin and Belfast Shows

    November 20, 2018 - By 

    The Messthetics, the Washington DC three-piece comprising ex-Fugazi members Brendan Canty and Joe Lally, alongside guitarist Anthony Pirog, will play two Irish shows next year. As part of a string of UK dates, the band will play Belfast’s Voodoo (alongside Robocobra Quartet) on Saturday, February 2 and Dublin’s Grand Social on February 3. Tickets are on sale now. The band released their self-titled debut album via Dischord Records in March. Read an interview with Canty here.

  • Tickets For KnockanStockan 2019 On Sale This Friday

    November 20, 2018 - By 

    Irish independent festival par excellence, KnockanStockan have announced ticket info for next year’s festival. Returning to Blessington Lake in Co. Wicklow across July 19-21, a limited amount of early bird tickets priced at €99 will go on sale this Friday, November 23 at 9am. Standard tickets will be priced as the following: 3 Day Ticket – €155 2 Day Ticket (Sat & Sun) – €135 1 Day Ticket (Sun Only) – €65 Here was our top 8 sets at this year’s festival.

  • RTÉ Choice Music Prize 2019 Announced

    November 20, 2018 - By 

    Details about next year’s RTÉ Choice Music Prize have been announced. With the Album of the Year shortlist being announced on January 9, and the Irish Song of the Year shortlist being revealed on January 30, the live event will take place at Dublin’s Vicar Street on Thursday, March 7. The latter will be broadcast live on RTÉ 2FM in a special four-hour extended programme from 7-11pm, with a highlights programme going out on RTÉ2 television the following week. This year’s prize was won by Ships for Precession, which beat off stiff competition from the likes of Lankum, Talos and Fionn Regan. Alan…

  • Inbound: James Joys

    November 20, 2018 - By 

    Not merely one-half of Belfast duo Ex Isles, James Joys is the music-making moniker of Belfast experimental composer James Thompson. Influenced by the likes of Ben Frost, Holly Herndon and Tim Hecker and more, his recently-released debut EP, Super_Tidal, melds electronic, ambient, noise, electoacoustic and rave across five tracks. Ahead of a busy 2019, Joys talks to us about conceptual distinction, confidence, collaboration, and crafting a release that translates the feeling of “being in a massive club with lots of different rooms, with all sorts of music blasting away”. Your recently-released EP, Super_Tidal, is a work of “electroacoustic rave entropy”. Very intriguing.…

  • Watch: That Snaake – Scofflaw // Sisyphus

    November 20, 2018 - By 

    Remember that time we premiered the mighty ‘Scofflaw // Sisyphus’ by Dublin noise rock meddlers That Snaake? Two years on, the Paul O’Connor-fronted band are back with its suitably singular video. According to the band, the video is: a) About the budget-nightmare world of the Irish music scene b) Designed to be viewed on mobile devices as is the way of the future c) Taken from the release In The Court of the Baby Kyng out now on Little L records That’s the lowdown and you’re all the better for knowing it.

  • Foo Fighters Set For Irish Return

    November 19, 2018 - By 

    Foo Fighters will play two Irish shows next year. Six years on from making their debut at the same festival as part of their 2012 Wasting Light tour, the band will return to play Belfast’s Tennent’s Vital on August 19th. They will also play Dublin’s RDS Arena on August 21st. Tickets for both shows go on sale on Friday (November 23) at 10am. Go here to register for pre-sale.

  • Album Stream: Ai Messiah – Sentience & Sapience

    November 14, 2018 - By 

    From Black Bones’ remix of ‘Pursuit by Group Zero and David Holmes’ Mosaic OST to Documenta’s stellar Lady With The Ring EP, Belfast imprint Touch Sensitive have delivered another all killer year in releases. Their fourth and final release of the year, Sentience & Sapience by Belfast producer Ai Messiah offers up something yet more compelling. A self-proclaimed “soundtrack for gutted metropolises, virtual sanctuaries and utopian enclaves”, the album – which was inspired by the outlandish prophecies of tech guru Ray Kurzwell – confidently veers between fourth world-leaning tapestries, balmy kosmische and panoramic new-age across seventeen tracks. Officially out on Friday, the album will be launched…