• Final Acts Added to Longitude 2016 Bill

    July 7, 2016 - By 

    With just over one week to go, Rusangano Family (above), Wyvern Lingo and Daithí are amongst a string of homegrown acts making up the final line-up announcement for this year’s Longitude, which is set to take place at Dublin’s Marlay Park next weekend. Also set to join the likes of Run The Jewels, Father John Misty, Roisin Murphy, Jamie XX and headliners Kendrick Lamar, Major Lazer and The National are HamsandwicH, We Cut Corners, Cork singer-songwriter Brian Deady and District 8 DJs. A limited number of 2 day and 3 day weekend festival tickets are on sale now. Check out the…

  • Festival Mixtape: Castlepalooza 2016

    June 28, 2016 - By 

    Set to return to Charleville Castle in Tullamore in Co. Offaly this weekend, the line-up for this year’s Castlepalooza is a perfectly balanced affair boasting everyone from Caribou, Villagers and Jurassic 5 to Cat Power, Field Music and Cian Nugent. Easily their strongest bill to date, this year’s genre-spanning schedule also features the some of the country’s very best homegrown acts including The Altered Hours, I Am The Cosmos and New Jackson. Got your ticket? Stream our twenty-five track Festival Mixtape below.

  • Monday Mixtape: Alison Spittle

    June 27, 2016 - By 

    In this edition of Monday Mixtape comedian Alison Spittle selects some of her favourite songs, including Morrissey, No Monster Club and Everything Everything. Here’s a mixtape of important bits of my life. Some are from my college days, being a child and some that have lifted my mood and comforted me. I fell in and out of love with music as a teen. I was dangerously obsessed with looking for meaning in every lyric but now I’m in my twenties so I’ve calmed down! I look to music now to give me a pick me up and to have the craic.…

  • Psykick Dancehall #3: Kojaque, God Creative + Crimes Against and Young Phantom @ Bello Bar, Dublin

    June 23, 2016 - By 

    Featuring some of the absolute best in the emerging Irish Hip-Hop scene, the latest installment of Psykick Dancehall – our regular Dublin showcase with Medium Presents – takes place at Bello Bar on Saturday, June 25. Headlined by God Creative + Crimes Against, the show will also performances from Kojaque and Young Phantom. Admission is just €6. Doors are at 8.30pm.

  • Watch: Confess The Night, a new short by Dublin director and writer Dave Tynan

    June 23, 2016 - By 

    Featuring music by Dublin duo Simon Cullen & Sorca McGrath AKA Ships, Confess The Night is a brief yet perfectly engrossing two-minute short by Dublin director and writer Dave Tynan. A piece that is, according to its creator, “not exactly a short film but not exactly a music video either”, it is imbued with a curious somnambulist subtlety that has proven a lure in his previous efforts. Watch the film and see our brief Q+A with Tynan – in which he discusses his latest work, his early beginnings and career to date – below. Hi Dave. Can you give us some background…

  • Watch: The Shaker Hymn – Another One of You

    June 23, 2016 - By 

    Few Irish bands manage to marry throwback and contemporary quite so convincingly as Cork five-piece The Shaker Hymn. Another earworming effort once more confirming the band’s ear for cunning composition and a killer chorus, their new single ‘Another One of You’ “reflects a deep romanticism often attributed to Dublin, but hidden away in beautiful Cork.” Curious words at a first glance but just one listen to their new single reveals the inner workings of those reflections on personal placement and identity in clear, sublime fashion. ‘Another One of You’ is the third track to be taken from the band’s second album,…

  • Festival Mixtape: Interlude

    June 23, 2016 - By 

    Following their debut in October last year, Dublin city festival Interlude returns to the RHA Gallery this weekend for three days and nights of first-rate, decidedly eclectic global and homegrown sounds. With art and film also more than accounted for, Grandmaster Flash, Lisa Hannigan, Ships, Exmagician and Booka Brass Band are just some of the names that make up this year’s bill. Ahead of what’s set to be a memorable second outing, stream our twenty-track Interlude Festival Mixtape via Spotify right below.

  • Album Premiere: Rory Grubb – Water House

    June 23, 2016 - By 

    Recorded in an old mill in Kilkenny, a wooden cabin in Carlow and a Georgian basement in Dublin over two very cold winters, Water House is the third album by Dublin artist Rory Grubb. Debuting Grubb’s much-admired creation, the Electric Ceramophone (a huge percussion instrument made from tuned clay pots) the release is a genre-warping, lo-fi gem evoking the likes of Beat Happening, The Microphones and Jeffrey Lewis. Largely opting for sampler keyboards and custom-made instruments throughout the release, Grubb has concocted another singular effort bursting with melody and bold experimentalism. Grubb launches Water House at Dublin’s Bello Bar on Friday night with support from Ross…

  • Stream: Cruising – My Twin Sister

    June 22, 2016 - By 

    Comprised of members of Sea Pinks, Logikparty, Girls Names and September Girls, Irish post-punk supergroup-of-sorts Cruising reared their scuzzy little head back in November 2013 with an early version of ‘You Made Me Do That‘ (it kicked ass – still does). Having thoroughly cemented that promise with their self-titled EP back in August last year, the band have re-emerged with ‘My Twin Sister’, a propulsive new effort that is quintessentially Cruising at its core, not least in its a locked-in rhythm section and straight-up punk strut. Stream/buy the track via Bandcamp below. My Twin Sister by CRUISING

  • Hard Working Class Heroes Call For Musician and Band Applications

    June 22, 2016 - By 

    Arguably the country’s leading celebration of homegrown, independent music, Hard Working Class Heroes will return to Dublin from October 6-8. With the likes of Hare Squead, Saint Sister and Rusangano Family standing out last year, the festival have made its annual call to the country’s musicians, bands and singer-songwriters to apply to play this year’s showcase.  You can apply via HWCH’s Breaking Tunes site; simply go here and click the ‘BANDS APPLY HERE’ button. The closing date for applications is July 22. Early bird tickets to Hard Working Class Heroes 2016 are priced at €35 via DICE until August 10, after which tickets will…