• Watch: Fionn Regan – The Meetings of the Waters

    February 2, 2017 - By 

    What better way to make a long-awaited return than with a faultless new song and video featuring none other than Cillian Murphy? Having recently been sampled by Bon Iver on ‘00000 Million’, Fionn Regan‘s sublime, slow-burning ‘The Meetings of the Waters’ is the title track from his forthcoming fifth studio album, which is set for release on April 14. To say we’re excited about what the full-length has in store might a bit of an understatement. Get acquainted with the new release from the Wicklow singer-songwriter right below.

  • F Festival 2017

    February 3, 2017 - By 

    A free, multifaceted festival aimed at generating visibility and equality for women in the arts, F Festival will return to various venues in Dublin for its second annual outing on March 11. With the daytime schedule set to see an array of art, talks and workshops transform the likes of Generator, The Back Loft and Temple Bar Gallery, venues including Sin E, Mother, Gypsy Rose, Grand Social, The Mercantile and more will host “hefty riffs and dirty disco beats” from the likes of Laoise, Kevyn, Vernon Jane, Leila Jane & The Healers, My Fellow Sponges, Pillow Queens and more to be announced. Go…

  • Compilation: Fecking Bahamas – V. Ireland

    February 1, 2017 - By 

    To say Ireland has an unusually rich track record in the realms of math-rock, post-rock and instrumental music would be something of an understatement. This is something Melbourne music website Fecking Bahamas (assumingly named after the latter-day Don Caballero song ‘Palms Trees In the Fecking Bahamas’) have copped onto, manifesting in V. Ireland, a new, 21 track compilation featuring tracks from the likes of And So I Watch You From Afar, The Redneck Manifesto and Abebisi Shank to lesser-known but no less sorcerous sonic conquistadors in We Are Knives, Val Normal and Psychojet. Their fifth-region specific compilation and their first release…

  • Playlist: Philip Glass at 80

    January 31, 2017 - By 

    No living musician can challenge the joint eclecticism and influence of Philip Glass‘ five-decades-and-counting career. From his countless solo piano releases, string quartets, operas and symphonies to his towering soundtrack work and collaborations with the likes of Bowie, Patti Smith, Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Allen Ginsberg, Ravi Shankar and David Byrne, the Baltimore master hasn’t as much left his stamp on contemporary classical music than irrevocably altered the course of it. To celebrate his 80th birthday today, we’ve compiled a 30 track, decade and genre-spanning Spotify playlist featuring some of his greatest moments.

  • Stream: Joshua Burnside – Tunnels Pt. 2

    January 31, 2017 - By 

    Long one of our favourite Irish singer-songwriters, Joshua Burnside has been experiencing a real lease of life over the last few months. Having recorded his long-awaited debut album, Ephrata, with the likes of Smalltown America in Derry, Lisburn’s Millbank Studios and producer Phil D’Alton last year, the Belfast-based musician will set it loose via Quiet Arch on May 5. The first single to be taken from the release, ‘Tunnels  Pt. 2’ sees Burnside effortlessly adopt a slicker, more fleshed-out alternative folk aesthetic than material of yore, delivering a propulsive and impassioned ode that puts his tale-telling centre-stage once more. Make sure to…

  • Stream: The Thin Air’s Death Culture Blues #7

    January 31, 2017 - By 

    Hey, you know what was fun? The most recent installment of Death Culture Blues, our show of experimental, cosmic and ambient sounds on the most excellent Dublin Digital Radio. Miss it? Not to worry: listen back to the show and check out its playlist in full below. We’re back with DCB on DDR this and every other Thursday night from 8-10pm. Check out their full schedule of programmes right here. 1. Polymorphie – Suite NC Part 3 2. 4treck – Pong Ping 3. The Soundcarriers – Low Light 4. Guitar Red – Disco From a Space Show 5. Rodion G.A.…

  • EP Stream: Tuath – Things I Don’t Know

    January 31, 2017 - By 

    While it falls under the overarching “Alternative Rock” category on Soundcloud, Things I Don’t Know by Donegal’s Tuath is an EP that comes from a place far beyond your standard alt-rock fare. Marrying blissed-out ‘gazey textures with sax, verb-drenched vocals and a droning fog of psych fuzz over four tracks, the twenty-five minute release sees the Robert Mulhern-fronted outfit occupy a sonic plain that resists convention in favour of inspired overcast escapism. The following blurb accompanies the release: “A few songs about the boring numb reality we all live in and the effect it has on us when part of…

  • Mac DeMarco Set For Vicar Street

    January 31, 2017 - By 

    Having recently announced that he’s finished recording This Old Dog, the forthcoming follow-up to 2015’s Another One, indie rock chill-out king Mac DeMarco will stop off at Dublin’s Vicar Street on November 22. With previous Irish dates at Electric Picnic 2015 and the Workman’s Club in Dublin back in 2013, tickets for the Vicar Street show – priced €25 including booking – go on sale this Friday at 9am. This Old Dog is out via Captured Tracks on May 5.

  • Watch: Myles Manley – Relax; Enjoy Your Night Upon The Town

    January 31, 2017 - By 

    We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: you would be hard-pressed to find a more fiercely inimitable solo artist residing on this small island than English-born, Sligo-raised, Dublin-based Myles Manley. Set for a 250 copy limited 7″ release on midnight blue vinyl via Dublin indie imprint Little L Records on February 17, his new single, ‘Relax; Enjoy Your Night Upon The Town’ finds Manley in particularly joyous form, blending Tune-Yards-esque melodic sensibility with layered, deceptively intricate instrumental panache reminiscent of Dirty Projectors. Featuring an equal beatific video directed and edited by Seamus Hanly, ‘Relax; Enjoy Your Night Upon The Town’ comes backed…

  • Stream: Group Zero – The Pummelling Repetition Inside

    January 30, 2017 - By 

    Beyond the more post-punk and art-rock leaning world of his main project, Girls Names‘ frontman Cathal Cully has always had a strong interest in esoteric electronic sounds. Having recently finished up recording Girls Names’ forthcoming fourth studio album, Cully has announced news of his debut solo album as Group Zero, Structures and Light, a release written, recorded and mixed intermittently over the space of four years. Set for release via Belfast’s Touch Sensitive records on Friday, February 24, Cully said of the release: “It was as an exercise in my own development and it was fun. It brought the naivety and spontaneity back…