• Premiere: Bosco Ramos – Mayflies

    March 19, 2018 - By 

    Belfast bass and drums punk rock duo Bosco Ramos made a sizable dent with the release of their fuzzed-out debut EP, Signs of Life, last year. Today, they’re back with their most emphatic single effort to date in the form of nuanced, unravelling alt rock blitz ‘Mayflies’. A song about “harnessing that thing which allows you to think for yourself and resist what you know to be wrong” it’s a typically groove-laden assault from Phil Brown (bass/vocals) and Callum McGeown (drums/vocals), rounded off with the pair’s progressively singular brand of melodic-yet-pummelling punk rock. In other words, we fucking love it. ‘Mayflies’ is…

  • New Acts and Day Breakdown Announced for The Beatyard

    March 12, 2018 - By 

    Set to take over Dun Laoghair Harbour in Dublin across the August bank holiday (August 3-5), The Beatyard have revealed new acts and its day breakdown. Eleven new additions join the line-up: St Germain, Daphni (aka Caribou), Kiasmos, Django Django, Mr Scruff, King Kong Company, Confidence Man, Loah, The Scratch, The Reflex and Kelly-Anne Byrne. See the full current line-up and day breakdown below. Tickets for The Beatyard are available here, ranging from €59 for adult day tickets to €150 for an adult weekend ticket. Kids aged 0-2 go free; 2-12 year olds is just €5 per day.

  • EP Stream: The Altered Hours – On My Tongue

    March 9, 2018 - By 

    Two years on from the release of their triumphant debut album, In Heat Not Sorry, Cork five-piece The Altered Hours‘ brand of snaking, crepuscular psych-rock sounds more more singular and vital than ever. Released via Art for Blind/Penske Recordings on 12″ vinyl and digital, the band’s new EP, On My Tongue, is an equal parts murky and prismatic four-track re-affirmation of something we have have always maintained: the Altered Hours are not merely one of the country’s very best bands, they continue to push headlong into a masterfully dazed realm all their very own. Stream the EP in full via Bandcamp below. On My Tongue by…

  • Ships Scoop Album of the Year 2017 at RTÉ Choice Music Prize

    March 9, 2018 - By 

    Dublin electronic duo Simon Cullen and Sorca McGrath aka Ships have walked away with the Album of the Year 2017 at tonight’s RTÉ Choice Music Prize. The event – which took place once again at Vicar Street – saw the pair scoop the prize, as well as a cheque for €10,000, courtesy of The Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) and The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) for their stellar debut album, Precession. Along with a premiere of the album, which was the product of two long years of writing, demoing, debating and recording, we spoke with Cullen and McGrath back in April last year. Revisit…

  • Final Acts Announced for It Takes a Village

    March 7, 2018 - By 

    With five weeks to go, the final acts have been announced to play the inaugural It Takes a Village. Taking place at Trabolgan Holiday Village in East Cork across April 13-15, the following bands, musicians, poets and performers will join the likes of Young Fathers, Andrew Weatherall, Fujiya & Miyagi, Talos, The Altered Hours (pictured above) and a host of others: For full details, line-up and tickets, go right here.

  • Red Bull Music’s Free Gaff Set For Dublin

    March 7, 2018 - By 

    This Easter Bank Holiday Weekend, Red Bull will present Free Gaff, a new, secret location event promising “three nights of debaucherous fun across three floors with three genres of music”. With more acts to be announced, Wyvern Lingo, Benjamin Damage, Mango & Mathman, Or:la, Palms Trax, Mella Dee, Loah and Erica Cody will play the Dublin City Centre Location across March 29-April 1. A BYOB event, tickets are now available priced €15 here. The exact location will be confirmed by email to all ticketholders no later than 24 hours in advance of their selected date.