• Win Tickets to Kormac: Equivalent Exchange @ Vicar Street, Dublin

    March 7, 2018 - By 

    As part of this year’s St. Patrick’s Festival in Dublin – which runs from March 15-19 – Kormac will present Equivalent Exchange at Vicar Street on Sunday, March 18. And it’s a bill not to be sniffed at: a one-off show headed by the Irish producer, DJ and composer along with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, over 30 musicians and artists including Loah, Eímear Noone, Jack O’ Rourke, Stephen James Smith, Shahab and Shayan Coohe, Maser andMoncrieff will perform. The ever excellent Ships will support on the night. All aspects of the show involve deep collaboration and celebrated urban artist Maser…

  • Forbidden Fruit Add New Acts, Reveals Day-to-Day Breakdown

    March 7, 2018 - By 

    With Justice, Richie Hawtin, Glass Animals, Mike D, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Bonobo, Vince Staples, The War on Drugs, Grizzly Bear, Thundercat and more already announced, the following acts have been added to the bill for this year’s Forbidden Fruit Festival. Stephan Bodzin, Idris Elba, Novelist, Hookworms (pictured), Tensnake, Axel Boman, DJ Agotia, Call Super, Jasper James, Kornél Kovács, Loah, Trinity Orchestra, Earl Sweatshirt, Floating Points, George Fitzgerald, Or:la, SG Lewis, DJ Seinfeld, Booka Brass, Saoirse and Fehdah. Presented by POD, Forbidden Fruit Festival takes over Dublin’s Royal Hospital, Kilmainham across the bank holiday weekend of June 2-4. Here’s the day-to-day…

  • The Flaming Lips Set For Galway Show

    March 7, 2018 - By 

    The Flaming Lips will play this year’s Galway International Arts Festivals, live at the festival big top, on July 26. Co-presented by Róisín Dubh and the festival, the show will be the three-time Grammy award-winning band’s only Irish date of 2018. Tickets – which go on sale at 9am on Friday – are priced at €49.50.

  • Beach House Set For Dublin Return

    March 7, 2018 - By 

    Having last played the city in the same venue back in 2015, Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House will return to play Dublin’s Vicar Street on Saturday, October 12. The announcement comes accompanied with the release of ‘Dive’, the second single to be taken from the band’s forthcoming seventh album, 7. Tickets for the Dublin show in October are priced at €35 and go on sale this Friday. Read our 2015 interview with Victoria Legrand from Beach House here.

  • Women’s Work 2018 Announced

    March 6, 2018 - By 

    Belfast’s Oh Yeah Music Centre has announced details for its third annual Women’s Work. Launching in acknowledgement of the centenary year of the Representation of The People Act 1918, organisers of the festival said that the artwork – which is designed by Belfast-based Illustrator Fiona McDonnell – “incorporates the colours and tone of what became a milestone event in the in the fight for democratic equality, which is still being fought today around the world in different forms. Established with the aim to celebrate and highlight the contribution that women make to music, the festival launched in 2016, and boasted a schedule including…

  • Premiere: Agu – Ines

    March 6, 2018 - By 

    Originally from Poland, Agu is a Galway-based artist whose music embraces a variety of languages and musical influences. Premiered here, her new single ‘Ines’ is a wistful and nuanced confessional ode striking a midpoint between indie-folk, solo post-rock and ambient. Taken from her forthcoming new album – the Tony Higgins-produced follow-up 2015’s Ke Světlu (Towards the Light) – Agu has said of the single: “It reflects a period of my life that changed everything. It is about realising you are suffocating even though you don’t have to. All you need to do is to spread your wings and try to fly. Leave…

  • Stream: Cherym – Take It Back

    March 5, 2018 - By 

    If you’re not already familiar with Derry threesome Cherym, you will be soon. Hannah Richardson, Nyree Porter and Lauren Kelly – who we featured as one of our 18 for ’18 acts at the start of the year – will release their debut EP, Mouth Breathers, in April. Doubling up as their debut single, the release’s lead single ‘Take It Back’ is a catchy-as-all-hell burst of punked-out noise-pop that demands an instant second listen. Take it Back by Cherym

  • The The Announce Belfast Show

    March 5, 2018 - By 

    As part of their 2018 comeback run of shows that includes Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens on July 7, London post-punk/synth-pop legends The The have announced a show at Belfast’s Mandela Hall on Friday, July 6. October will mark the 35th anniversary of the band’s debut album, Soul Mining. The band last performed live as part of David Bowie’s Meltdown at London’s South Bank in 2002. Tickets for the Belfast show are £39 (including booking fee) and are on sale now.

  • Music Current 2018

    March 5, 2018 - By 

    Showcasing of the best of new Irish and international contemporary electronic music, Dublin’s Music Current will return for its third outing across April 12-14. Billed as the city’s annual contemporary music festival, the festival – presented by Dublin Sound Lab – will host concerts, panel discussions and a music commission at Smock Alley Theatre on Exchange Street Lower over three days. At the top of the agenda this year is a “distinct celebration” of piano and keyboard music, with several international artist performing in Ireland for the first time at the festival. On the bill this year is Belgium composer Stefan Prins,…

  • Stream: The Sunshine Factory – Exploding Head/Negative Light

    March 5, 2018 - By 

    One of our must-watch Irish acts for 2018, Cork five-piece The Sunshine Factory have been on a major roll recently. Having released Cruelest Animal, their four-track EP of first-rate slow-burning neo-psych, back in November, the band are back with a killer double-single, ‘Exploding Head’ and ‘Negative Light’. Recorded by Chris Somers live in Cork’s Crane Lane on October 30 last year, the new tracks – released via their DIY label Sunshine Cult and produced by Mark Waldron-Hyden from the band – present a masterfully claustrophobic brace of urgent, hazed-out sounds from the fast-rising Cork quintet. Negative Light/Exploding head by The Sunshine Factory