• GoGo Penguin: Koyaanisqatsi – A New Score Performed Live

    July 24, 2017 - By 

    35 year on from its initial release, GoGo Penguin will perform a new score to Godfrey’s seminal 1982 experimental film Koyaanisqatsi at Dublin’s Sugar Club on October 19. With the original production featuring a perfectly transformative, career-defining score from the masterful Philip Glass, this is an unmissable opportunity to witness the Manchester quartet put a new slant put on a cinematic masterpiece that brilliantly blurs the lines between documentary and hypnotic time-lapse photography. According to promoters, originally commissioned by HOME in Manchester as part of the Music and Film Project, promoters said od the performance: “GoGo Penguin’s richly emotional music offers…

  • Oh Yeah Summer Zine 2017

    July 24, 2017 - By 

    When we launched our free physical magazine back in October of 2014 we did so with the boundless conviction that there’s still very much a market and audience for print music magazines. That uniquely fuzzy feeling one gets picking up a lovingly-compiled magazine upon entering a coffee shop or leaving a record store, eager to delve in and get discovering: that’s exactly – and purely – what drove us to produce our own zine, month in, month out, and what will compel to do so again when we re-launch later this year. Working alongside Belfast freelance photographer Carrie Davenport –…

  • LCD Soundsystem To Play Three Headline Shows at the Olympia

    July 24, 2017 - By 

    Here’s some news to ease those Monday morning blues: LCD Soundsystem will headline three very special shows at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre across September 27-29. Marking the band’s first headline shows since reforming in 2015, they will be the James Murphy-fronted band’s only Irish appearances this year. Tickets – which go on sale this Friday at 9am – are priced €54.50. LCD Soundsystem will release their fourth studio album, American Dream, on September 1.

  • Playlist: 20 Acts To Catch at Electric Picnic 2017

    July 24, 2017 - By 

    For all its kaleidoscopic, genre-spanning variety, there’s no denying choosing which acts to catch (and those artists to regrettably miss) at Electric Picnic can be a bit of a headache. Sure, Clashfinder is a big help (seriously, we’d be lost without it) but let us help you out if you’re EP-bound this weekend: from Interpol, Chaka Khan and Parquet Courts to Run The Jewels (above), Soulwax and Car Seat Headrest, here’s 20 acts to catch at this year’s Electric Picnic, returning to Stradbally Estate across September 1-3

  • Stream: An Taobh Tuathail Vol. 8

    July 20, 2017 - By 

    Make absolutely no bones about it: An Taobh Tuathail on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta has long been something of an institution here in Ireland. Presented by the tireless Cian Ó Cíobháin, the long-running underground radio show – which broadcasts midweek on the Casla-based Irish-language radio service – has cemented that reputation with a series of compilations comprising some ATT favourites of the time. Arriving 10 years after the first collection on CD, Vol 8 – which is available via Spotify below – is 60 tracks in length, traversing electronica, folk, psychedelia, ethereal R&B & neo-classical in typically refined and informed fashion. As…

  • Watch: Loner Deluxe – Summer Song

    July 20, 2017 - By 

    The music-making moniker of Galway indie maestro and Rusted Rail founder Keith Wallace AKA Loner Deluxe is an appellation that strongly hints at the willfully – and wonderfully – introspective nature of his craft. Conjuring the likes of early-to-mid 90s era material on Slumberland, Misplaced Music and Fluff Records via a prism of Beta Band, Grandaddy and hints of Nick Drake, new single ‘Summer Song’ is a blithe, lo-fi instrumental taken from both the recent Loner Deluxe/A Lilac Decline split, as well as the new Loner Deluxe album, Songs I Taped Off The Radio. Stream and/or order that on cassette here. Shot in…

  • Watch: Comfy Coffin – Content as a Cog

    July 19, 2017 - By 

    The self-proclaimed “lonely one man band” of Utrecht-based Wicklow man Bobby Mink, the music of Comfy Coffin stems from a place slap-bang between instantly accessible and brilliantly left of center. New single ‘Content as a Cog’ finds Milk – who is currently seeking a drummer in the Amsterdam area – in inspired form, layering everything from harp and squeezebox over fuzzed-out guitar and bass to deliver a track bursting with real alt-pop finesse and resourcefulness. Better still, the video kicks several shades of ass. Have a peek.

  • First Delegates and Ticket Info Announced for Hard Working Class Heroes 2017

    July 19, 2017 - By 

    Ahead of its return to Dublin across September 28-30, Hard Working Class Heroes have announced the first wave of delegates and ticket information for its fifteenth outing. As well as featuring live showcases throughout the city across the three days and nights, the weekend will, as ever, see a mixture of workshops, discussions, and panels take place, featuring a wide array of bookers, labels, managers, music supervisors and journalists from around the world, as well as home. Amongst the first delegates announced are Adam Ryan of the Great Escape, Casper Mills of SXSW, Sarah Besnard of ATC, Lisa Hresko of A2IM and…

  • Video Premiere: Floating Ballroom – Wolf Call

    July 19, 2017 - By 

    Tipperary’s Joe Geaney AKA Floating Ballroom has been popping up in all the right places recently via his latest single ‘Wolf Call’. A gentle electro trip of disembodied vocals, skittering melodies, cut-up piano and nicely layered percussion, the single now comes accompanied with visuals whose ethereal, haunting quality matches the tone of Geaney’s electronic tropes perfectly. Have a first look below.

  • Pussy Riot Announce Dublin and Belfast Shows

    July 19, 2017 - By 

    Five years on from their highly-reported performance at Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Russian feminist protest punk rock group Pussy Riot have announced they will play shows in Ireland later this year. Riot Days – which accompanies band member Maria Alyokhina’s written memoir of the same name – is a show directed by Russian theatre director Yury Muravitsky that traces the story of the band’s notorious guerilla protest and what followed in the aftermath. Marrying punk, electronica, theatre, documentary footage and protest, the show will stop off at Dublin’s Button Factory on Thursday, November 23 and Belfast’s Mandela Hall…