• Day by Day and Stage Times Revealed For Hard Working Class Heroes 2017

    September 5, 2017 - By 

    The Day by Day schedule and stage-times have been revealed for this year’s Hard Working Class Heroes. Set to return to Dublin across September 28-30, the independent music showcase will be Ireland’s largest gathering of bookers, labels, managers, music supervisors, radio folk and journalists from around the world and here at home. As well as a full bill of workshops, discussions, and panels, see below for those all-important days, venues and times. Tickets for Hard Working Class Heroes are on sale now.

  • Premiere: Brand New Friend – Hate It When You Have To Go

    September 1, 2017 - By 

    Few Irish bands have had a stronger 2017 than fast-rising North Coast quartet Brand New Friend. Having featured them as an Inbound one-to-watch act in our magazine this time last year, we’re pleased to present a first listen to the band’s virulent new single ‘Hate It When You Have To Go’. Clocking in at just over two minutes, the track – conjuring everyone from Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle ato early Ash – perfectly distils the Taylor Johnson-fronted foursome’s peerless brand of starry-eyed lo-fi indie-pop. Check out the band at Cosby Stage at Electric Picnic this Sunday at 2pm and a…

  • Watch: Rusangano Family – Tea In A Pot

    August 31, 2017 - By 

    Hands down one of our must-see acts at Electric Picnic at the weekend, the mighty Rusangano Family have just unveiled the video to their new single, ‘Tea In A Pot’. A track following in the wake of their Choice Music Prize-winning debut album, Let The Dead Bury The Dead, the groove-heavy, grime-inclined effort comes accompanied with a simple but pretty excellent video shot in Co. Clare by Shane Serrano. Get the kettle on and give this one a watch.

  • Liam Gallagher Set For Intimate Belfast Show

    August 31, 2017 - By 

    Following the release of his solo debut album, As You Were, Liam Gallagher will play a string of UK dates in December. Ahead of that, the Oasis frontman has announced he will play an intimate show at Belfast’s legendary Ulster Hall on Monday, October 30. Tickets for the date – which are sure to sell out in second – go on sale on Friday, September 8 at 10am. Set those alarms.

  • Premiere: Swimmers Jackson – Life’s Short (Embrace It)

    August 30, 2017 - By 

    Shot on a boat somewhere between Croatia and Montenegro, the video for ‘Life’s Short (Embrace It)’ by Dublin’s Niall Jackson AKA Swimmers Jackson perfectly captures the song’s simple yet potent message. The second single to be taken from his forthcoming new EP, the track finds Jackson (who is also a member of Dublin indie rock quartet Bouts) in particularly emphatic form, weaving wistful, surf-tinged harmonies with a brilliantly burrowing, lo-fi sensibility. We’ll cut to the chase while we’re at it: this is easily one of our Irish tracks of the year so far. The release comes ahead of a string of…

  • Glen Hansard Set For Irish Christmas Shows

    August 30, 2017 - By 

    With special guests to be announced, Glen Hansard has announced that he will play three special, full-band Christmas shows in Dublin and Belfast in December. The performances – which promises to “bring the big band back together with strings, horns, bells and whistles – will stop off at Belfast’s Ulster Hall on December 15 and Vicar Street on December 17 and 18. Hansard performed two sold-out intimate shows in the latter Dublin back in August. Tickets for the shows go on sale on Tuesday, September 5 at 9am. Tickets are £27.50 standing/£30.00 seated for the Belfast date and €40 for the…

  • John Maus Announces New Album, Will Play Dublin in November

    August 29, 2017 - By 

    Having been off the radar over the last while in order to focus on completing his PhD, Austin experimental pop master John Maus will release his first album in six years, Screen Memories, via Ribbon Music on October 27. A month later, on November 24, Maus will play The Grand Social in Dublin, thanks to the joint efforts of Skinny Wolves and Aiken. With guests still to be announced, tickets for the show are priced €18.50 and go on sale tomorrow, Wednesday, August 30. Screen Memories opening track ‘The Combine’ is released today, in which Maus intones with an apocalyptic stateliness, “It’s going to dust us all…

  • Stream: A Dream, The Night – Sick Day

    August 29, 2017 - By 

    Limerick duo Julianne Murray and Adam Alcock AKA A Dream, The Night identify themselves as ‘indie electronic chill pop’. Reflecting a couple of their key influences in the likes of The xx and James Blake, new single ‘Sick Day’ goes some distance to warrant the title. Featuring visuals courtesy of Derek Boland, it’s an impressively-produced, gently bobbing gem of electro-pop nocturnalism that also conjures the likes of Mount Kimbie and Lapalux at their most restrained. We’re epecting big things from these guys in the future.

  • Premiere: Pale Rivers – West Point

    August 29, 2017 - By 

    One of our must-see Irish acts at Electric Picnic this weekend, Cork five-piece Pale Rivers released one of our favourite Irish tracks of 2016 – debut single ‘August 6th‘ – back in October last year. Having arrived in such promising fashion, the band have doubly confirmed with new single ‘West Point’. Accompanied by visuals Kevin McGloughlin and Mike Lee, it’s a wonderfully earworming effort betraying the band’s knack for combining inward-looking lyricism with their own brand of instantaneous alt-pop. Wrangling with spectres of the past as framed by the present day, this is a refined primal scream that broods as much as it…

  • Watch: SlowPlaceLikeHome – Echoes

    August 24, 2017 - By 

    Fronted by Keith Mannion, Donegal psychedelic electronic act Slow Place Like Home returned last week with one of the Irish tracks of the year so far, ‘Echoes’. The second single to be lifted from the band’s forthcoming album, When I See You…Ice Cream, the track – which features vocals from Fearghal McKee of ’90s cult Irish alt rocker Whipping Boy – now comes bolstered by a stellar video courtesy of Michael Liston. Filmed on location in July in and around Ballyshannon and Dicey Reillys in Donegal, it very nicely reflects the song’s nocturnal, otherworld sway. Slow Place Like Home play Electric Picnic…