• Stream: Wyvern Lingo – I Love You, Sadie

    June 25, 2017 - By 

    Hands down one of the real musical success stories in Ireland of the last couple of years, we have firmly enjoyed following the rise and rise of Bray alt-pop Wyvern Lingo. With a launch party set for Dublin’s Grand Social on Friday, August 25, new single ‘I Love You Sadie’ is another instant gem bursting at the seams with the threesome’s slick marriage of exquisite, RnB-inflected harmonies, groove-laden patterns and their collective ear for a killer hook. Be prepared to the hit that repeat button as soon as those initial three minutes run out. Tickets for the Grand Social show are…

  • Video Premiere: Waldorf & Cannon – Omit The Logic

    June 23, 2017 - By 

    Like very others in these parts, Derry/Donegal alternative multi-instrumentalist duo Waldorf & Cannon make a little go a very long way. With both members on vocal duties, Philip Wallace AKA Walford playing a Farmer Footdrum kit, guitar and harmonica, and Oisin Cannon on bass, their sound – bearing the imprint of the Pixies, Devo, Link Wray and Beck – is testament to the fact that the song, no matter how it’s wrangled or performed, reigns supreme. A highlight from their consistently idiosyncratic debut album, Old Dogs New Tricks, new single ‘Omit The Logic’ is an infectious beast featuring a guitar solo from Cahir…

  • Submissions Open For Hard Working Class Heroes 2017

    June 20, 2017 - By 

    The country’s leading annual celebration of homegrown, independent music, Hard Working Class Heroes will return to Dublin from September 28-30. With less acts set to appear this year, the festival are now taking submissions via here. According to the festival, “HWCH is an event with a proven pedigree when it comes to showcasing new and exciting talent. The key difference is that international agents, festival bookers, record labels, publishers, managers, event curators, journalists, editors, radio DJs and taste-makers come to HWCH to find new Irish acts only The closing date to apply is July 14.

  • Festival Mixtape: Another Love Story 2017

    June 20, 2017 - By 

    Another Love Story returns to Killyon Manor for its fourth Summer Festival outing this August 18-20. Organised by Happenings and Homebeat the almost otherworldly festival promises terrific Irish and International live music and DJ sets (including a set by yours truly), colourful instalments and plenty of room to explore. Ahead of what’s set to be another unforgettable weekend, stream our fifteen track ALS Festival Mixtape, featuring the likes of Katie Kim, Bantum, Tomorrows, ELLLL, Replete, Beach, I Am The Cosmos, Hilary Woods and Overhead, The Albatross. Go here to buy tickets to Another Love Story 2017.

  • Watch: SlowPlaceLikeHome – When I See You… Ice Cream

    June 19, 2017 - By 

    Having graced the cover of the fifteenth issue of our soon-to-return physical magazine, Keith Mannion’s SlowPlaceLikeHome have long been one of our favourite Irish acts. The follow-up to 2016 single ‘Tiger Lilly’, new track ‘When I See You…Ice Cream’ is a playful burst of electro-pop betraying SPLH’s signature brand of somnambulant wonder but with an evolutionary twist. Released today via Strange Brew Rekkids, the single was written between Knather Woods, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, and the Algarve in Portugal. It was recorded and produced in its entirety by in Keith’s bedroom studio in Donegal and mastered by Antony Ryan (Morr Music label)…

  • Premiere: Aislinn Logan – So Loud/Dance With Demons

    June 19, 2017 - By 

    Having released her promising debut EP, Lost or Gone, last year, London-based, Belfast-born multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and vocalist Aislinn Logan is primed to release its highly-anticipated follow-up at some point in the coming months. Bolstered by an equalling compelling b-side in the form of ‘Dance With Demods’, new single ‘So Loud’ suggests some great things in the making. A wonderfully skeletal release that sees Logan’s knack for a burrowing melody and cutting refrain take centre-stage, it presents the artist as a real contender, with a voice and deep yet understated emotive flair all her own. Speaking about the single, Logan said, “So Loud…

  • EP Premiere: RMCK – RMCK

    June 16, 2017 - By 

    Belfast-based booking agent and record label Solid Choice Industries have been knocking it out of the park recently. As well as putting out Witch Hunt, the blistering debut album from hardcore metal quartet Hornets, they have also lined up with shows from Zu, Lemuria, Sunn O))) and the mighty Boris over the next few months. Today we’re pleased to exclusively unveil their latest release, the self-titled debut EP by anonymous artist RMCK. Featuring five tracks of equal parts squalling and meditatively cyclical instrumentalism recorded by Rocky O’Reilly at Belfast’s Start Together Studios, SC’s own blurb on the EP – which…

  • Hijack! QFT Mixtape Vol. 1

    June 16, 2017 - By 

    Across July 7-9 we’re teaming up with Belfast’s Queen’s Film Theatre to present Hijack! QFT Mixtape Vol 1, a weekend-long takeover series featuring a selection of some of the very best music-themed films and documentaries. Including NI premieres of Gus Sutherland’s The Unseen: A Detroit Beat Tape, Sarah Price’s L7: Pretend We’re Dead (above), Iggy Pop and Josh Homme doc American Valhalla and John Scheinfeld’s John Coltrane documentary Chasing Trane, the series will also including a Delia Derbyshire Double Bill, School of Rock, Stop Making Sense and more. See below for the full programme. Tickets are available to buy via the QFT website. Chasing…

  • Watch: Rusangano Family – I Know You Know

    June 16, 2017 - By 

    The first single to be unveiled following the release of their Choice Music Prize-winning debut album Let The Dead Bury The Dead, Limerick-based trio Rusangano Family have just unveiled the video for ‘I Know You Know’. Directed, shot and edited by the ever-talented Bob Gallagher “in conspiracy with” some familiar faces in Naoise Roo, Linda O’Connor, Sarah Joy McDermott, Eamonn Elliot, Elaine Mai, Sam Burton, Lisa O’Flynn, Kate O’Shea, David MacNamara, Aoife O’Donoghue and Eavan Brennan, the video is a masterfully understated – yet impressively experimental – visual accompaniment to a track that ‘is about how we all face various challenges in…