• Another Love Story Reveal Final Line-up

    July 13, 2016 - By 

    Easily our favourite small Irish summer festival, Another Love Story returns to the sublime Killyon Manor in Co. Meath from August 19-21. With just over a month to go until this year’s outing, organisers Happenings and Homebeat have revealed their final line-up, including their first ever international act, Sweden’s Badlands. With a host of live acts and DJs including Talos, Slow Skies, SlowPlaceLikeHome, Lastertom, Somadrone, Carriages and Ships set to make an appearance, the return of The Library and a veritable cornucopia of theatrical and artistic happenings (see full line-up poster below) will take place over the weekend. Tickets are priced…

  • Premiere: Guilty Optics – The Kayapo Ghosts

    July 13, 2016 - By 

    Since featuring as an Inbound act in the sixth issue of our magazine last year, Dublin’s Guilty Optics have been a little on the quiet side. That said, with their Ben Moore-produced debut album set to drop at the end of the year, the punk trio of Al Finnerty, Lewis Hedigan and Richie O’Reilly are back with an emphatic teaser of what lies in store in the form of ‘The Kayapo Ghosts’, a virulent post-punk throwdown that lyrically tackles the destruction of Amazonian rainforests and the forced removal of indigenous Kayapo tribes. Have an exclusive first listen below.

  • Launch: New Series ‘The Sunday Edition’

    July 12, 2016 - By 

    The first in a series of art talks called The Sunday Edition took place in the Dean Hotel in Dublin last Sunday. Brainchild of designer, curator and mural artist, James Earley, the aim of the talks is give “an insight into the work ethic and inspiration that drives some of Irelands best contemporary artists practicing in this country today”. Earley explained before the event that “the first talk in the series plans to educate and excite the public on established and emerging Irish artists”. Two artists, both part of the online gallery run by Earley called Iverna, were presented to…

  • Festival Mixtape: Longitude 2016

    July 12, 2016 - By 

    Set to return to Dublin’s Marlay Park this weekend, the three-day line-up for this year’s Longitude is easily one of the strongest of the Irish summer festival calendar. Headlined by Kendrick Lamar, Major Lazer and The National – as well as featuring the likes of Jamie xx, Father John Misty (pictured), Run The Jewels, Laura Mvula, Courtney Barnett, Vic Mensa and Kurt Vile & The Violators – organisers have struck a keen balance with both genre and the ratio between homegrown artists and much bigger acts. Ahead of what’s set to be yet another memorable weekend for the MCD-run festival, stream our 30…

  • We Are Scientists Announce Irish Dates

    July 12, 2016 - By 

    Having released their fifth studio album, Helter Seltzer, back in April, We Are Scientists are returning for three Irish shows in October as part of their latest UK and Irish tour. The New York-based duo – who burst onto the scene back in 2005 with their major label classic With Love and Squalor – play Dublin’s Opium Rooms on October 20, Galway’s Roisin Dubh on October 21 and Belfast’s Limelight 2 on October 23. Tickets on sale this Friday at 9am.

  • Gem Fest 2016

    July 15, 2016 - By 

    Purveyors of all things sonically excellent, Dublin’s Little Gem Records will host a free concert and celebration at The Bandstand in Dublin’s Phoenix Park on Sunday, July 17. An all-ages, free event, where picnic blankets and dancing shoes are encouraging, Patrick Kelleher, Roslyn Steer, Fuzzy Hell and Cobra Truth will all perform from 2pm. Nice.

  • Album Premiere: Ainriail – My Heart is a Knot of Blood

    July 12, 2016 - By 

    Imagine Killing Joke and Meshuggah had a baby together and dumped it in a bog. Then imagine that this baby grew into a sludge behemoth. That is the sound of Ainriail. The group has built a strong live reputation lurking about the squats and DIY spaces of Ireland and developing a sound marked by bone-rattling bass and bellowing vocals. And their debut album, My Heart is a Knot of Blood, doesn’t so much play out your speakers as much bursts out and oozes all over your furniture covering it in dark oils stains. While taking queues from the sludge and…

  • Remembering John Coltrane @ Black Box, Belfast

    July 15, 2016 - By 

    The latest outing from the ever-tasteful folks at Solid Choice Industries, Belfast’s Black Box will host a free celebration of the music of John Coltrane on Sunday, July 17. Marking the 49th anniversary of the legendary jazz saxophonist and composer’s passing, the night will explore the wide arc of Coltrane’s own work and the music of his contemporaries that he inspired. Including a screening of The World According to John Coltrane (a 1990 documentary produced in association with his esteemed widow, Alice) this is an unmissable proposition for diehard fans, the well-acquainted and newcomers alike. Doors are at 7pm.  …