• Dublin Podcast Festival 2017

    August 2, 2017 - By 

    Presented by HeadStuff and Aiken Promotions, the inaugural Dublin Podcast Festival will bring 10 nights of live podcasts, headliner shows, comedy showcases, discussions and workshops taking place in various citys throughout the city across September 19-29. Featuring a diverse range of international and homegrown podcasters, Criminal, The Memory Palace, Fascinated, My Dad Wrote a Porno, Featuring a diverse range of international and homegrown podcasters covering everything from music, food and literature to comedy, film and crime, Criminal, The Memory Palace, Fascinated, My Dad Wrote a Porno, Scroobius Pip’s Distraction Pieces, Roddy Doyle and No Encore featuring Daithí, Overhead The Albatross and…

  • Festival Mixtape: Indiependence 2017

    August 2, 2017 - By 

    Returning to Deer Farm in Mitchelstown this weekend (August 4-6), the line-up for this year’s Indiependence Music & Arts Festival is arguably their strongest and most eclectic to date. Headlined by Welsh alt-rock masters Manic Street Preachers (pictured), this year’s line-up boasts international names including Tom Odell, Frank Turner and Wild Beasts, as well as some of our favourite Irish acts making their own dent on the big stage at the minute, including Overhead The Albatross, Talos, We Cut Corners, BARQ, Super Silly, Le Boom and Stomptown Brass. With tickets still available to buy here, here’s our annual, 10 track…

  • Playlist: Belfast Music Club – Pride @ The Bear and The Doll

    August 2, 2017 - By 

    Berlin-based, Californian-born producer Daniel Wang will stop off at Belfast’s new-fangled The Bear and The Doll on Saturday night. Presented by and featuring the ever-tasteful folk at Belfast Music Club, it promises to be a night of first-rate disco and boogie from 9pm. Featuring Sylvester, Gwen Guthrie, The Rah Band & more, here’s a 10 track sampler courtesy of Roger Montgomery of BMC to give you a sense of what to expect on the night. Photo by Christopher Martin

  • Video Premiere: Boris – The Power (Live)

    August 2, 2017 - By 

    Japanese experimental rock heroes Boris kick off their 25th Anniversary European tour in Moscow tomorrow night, a twenty-date traipse that concludes at shows in Dublin’s Whelan’s on August 20, Cork’s Cyprus Avenue on August 21, Belfast’s Limelight on August 23, before finishing in Helsinki two nights later. Ahead of what’s set to be a blitzing tour from the low-end merchants, comprised of Atsuo, Takeshi and Wata, we’re pleased to present a first look at a new live video of ‘The Power’, a pummelling, seven-minute, doom-drenched highlight from the band’s new – twenty-third – studio album, Dear. Check that and the band’s full…

  • Aislinn Logan w/ Mark Loughrey @ Town Square, Belfast

    August 1, 2017 - By 

    Playing a stripped-back show in a limited capacity space on what is payday for some (presumably very thirsty) people is often a recipe for disaster. Usually it’s nothing personal: you could be Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell playing a pop-up show to a room full of dyed-in-the-wool aficionados and yet – due to some strange phenomenon that has somewhat corrupted live performance in public spaces since the dawn of time – people will often put loudly catching up above bearing witness to the artist they’ve parted money to be in the company of. Like, say, the Nazca Geoglyphs, the Bermuda Triangle and the…

  • Stream: Autumns – Female Model/No More Luxury

    July 31, 2017 - By 

    Having first featured the project back in February of 2014, the music of Derry’s Christian Donaghey AKA Autumns has steadily mutated from shoegaze-inflected, willfully acerbic noise rock into a much darker, beat-orientated and industrially-inclined proposition. Following a string of single and EP releases, Donaghey is set to cement that gestation by unveiling his debut album, Suffocating Brothers, via Glasgow imprint Clan Destine Records on September 23. To accompany the new singles, two new tracks ‘Female Model’ and ‘No More Luxury’ are equally emphatic fist-clenched efforts that aim straight for the jugular. Featuring suitably stellar artwork from Belfast artist Claire Miskimmin (also of Girls Names/Cruising/New…

  • Watch: This Ain’t No Disco Episode 3

    July 31, 2017 - By 

    With episode one having landed like an early Christmas present back in December, This Ain’t No Disco is an Irish alternative music program hosted by the tireless Donal Dineen and directed by Myles O’Reilly of Arbutus Yarns. Marrying music, visuals, discussion and collaboration over 50 minutes, episode three of the series – produced with no budget or sponsorship, and is “powered only out of passion, musicians and crew who worked […] voluntarily” –  features TTA favourites Rusangano Family, RSAG, Lisa O’Neill and Lankum’s Radie Peat and Darragh Lynch, as well as Bridget Mae Power, David Allred and Peter Broderick, and Stephen…

  • Win Tickets to Pussy Riot in Dublin and Belfast

    July 31, 2017 - By 

    Russian feminist protest punk rock group Pussy Riot will bring their Riot Days show to Dublin’s Button Factory on Thursday, November 23 and Belfast’s Mandela Hall on Friday, November 24. Riot Days – which accompanies band member Maria Alyokhina’s written memoir of the same name – is a show marrying punk, electronica, theatre, documentary footage and protest directed by Russian theatre director Yury Muravitsky that traces the story of the band’s notorious guerilla protest and what followed in the aftermath. Fancy snapping up a pair of tickets to either the Belfast or Dublin show? Simply Like our Facebook page here and send…

  • New Acts Set for Other Voices at Electric Picnic

    July 31, 2017 - By 

    Set to return to the heartland of the festival’s woodland area, Other Voices have announced thirteen new acts set to perform at their stage at Electric Picnic. With Saint Sister, Odetta Hartman, Soulé, Loah, Charlie Cunningham, Jafaris and Katie Laffan already announced, the following acts have been added: Talos (pictured) / New Jackson / Booka Brass / Tom Adams / PIXX / Jack O’Rourke with special guest Hattie Webb / Stephen James Smith / Jealous Of The Birds / Bitch Falcon / Ailbhe Reddy / Slow Riot / Super Silly / Pillow Queens Other Voices will announce more acts over the…

  • Festival Mixtape: Stendhal Festival 2017

    July 28, 2017 - By 

    Set to return Ballmully Cottage Farm in Limavady across August 11 and 12, Northern Ireland’s only unmissable summer festival – and officially Ireland’s “best small festival” three years running – Stendhal is shaping up to be just as memorable as its last few outings. Ahead of our festival preview next week, we’ve whittled the year’s bill down to a twenty-track festival mixtape, featuring Ash, Joshua Burnside (above), Ryan Vail, Mongoose, Overhead The Albatross, Making Monsters, Ryan Vail and more. Go here to buy tickets.