• Stream: MMOTHS – Santo

    August 8, 2014 - By 

    Conjuring desolate coastline nostalgia and streetlamp-lit, nocturnal traipses, Jack Colleran AKA MMOTHS has really hit home on ‘Santo’, a new five-minute track that has us positively hankering for his forthcoming debut album. Evoking a real submerged quality via washes of darkly, dense synth and masterfully rendered vocals, the track was posted on MMOTHS’ Facebook page with the message: “here’s something new i’ve been working on i know i’ve been quiet but more is coming soon thank you for sticking around x” Stream ‘Santo’ via Soundcloud below.

  • Inside Out

    August 8, 2014 - By 

    Taking place at Belfast’s Arthur Square from August 9 to August 30, Inside Out will see some of the country’s finest musical talent – everyone from Malojian (above) to Sons of Caliber – play a series of free, unplugged gigs. Culminating in a showcase event at City Hall, the gigs will last 45 minutes and take place every Saturday (1pm and 3pm) and Thursday (at 5.30pm) throughout the month of August. Here’s the full line-up and schedule: Malojian: August 9 Silhouette: August 9 Master and Dog: August 14 Zarah Fleming: August 16 The Hardchangers: August 16 Wookalily: August 21 Silences: August 23 Linley Hamilton: August 23 Emerald Armada: August 28…

  • Watch: GANGS – Daisy

    August 8, 2014 - By 

    Taken from their forthcoming debut EP, Back To School, Dublin quartet GANGShave unveiled the rather touching video for their single, ‘Daisy’. An impressively-shot, black-and-white visual accompaniment to the track, it was directed by Gansee Films and shot in Dublin. Back to School will be released via Reekus Records on September 26 (October 6 in the UK). GANGS play Derry’s Sandinos on August 15 and Belfast’s QUBSU the following night. Watch the video for ‘Daisy’ below.  

  • Watch: Skymas – Build

    August 8, 2014 - By 

    Having been steadily established themselves on the live circuit over the last few months, Belfast electronic trio Skymas have released a new track, ‘Build’. The follow-up to their Primer EP – released in October last year – the track is a typically gyration-inducing, rhythmically propulsive effort; main man Martin Corrigan’s refrain, “They give you tools to build your own prison. These are the walls with which you live in.” burrowing right into the inner ear and lingering long after the song’s five minutes. Watch the video to the track below.

  • Watch: Mojo Fury – All In Awe

    August 8, 2014 - By 

    Mojo Fury have unveiled the video for ‘All In Awe’, the latest single to be taken from their stellar second album, The Difference Between. A notably more cinematic, narrative-driven visual accompaniment (in comparison to previous videos for the likes of ‘Origami Bird’ and ‘The Difference Between’) the video was directed by Daniel Holmes. The moral, in a nutshell? Don’t text and drive. Mojo Fury’s next show is at Belfast’s Voodoo on Wednesday, September 24. FLAWS, Abandcalledboy provide support on the night. Watch the video for ‘All In Awe’ below.  

  • Watch: Floor Staff – The Guest

    August 7, 2014 - By 

    Having released their Gift Horse/Brother to God Double A-Side last week, Dublin alt-pop Floor Staff have unveiled the equal parts frightening and ingenuous video for ‘The Guest’. A video about two expecting parents coming to term with the fact their baby is going to be a musician, it was created by Irish video director Bob Gallagher. Speaking about the video, Gallagher said, “It actually came about during an interaction I had with a shaman where I took part in an ayahuasca ritual. It’s a powerful hallucinogen that lasts for a few hours. I had a lot of different experiences during that…

  • Video Premiere: Robyn G Shiels – This Deathly Charm

    August 5, 2014 - By 

    Back in May, Kilrea acoustic-doom conjurer par excellence Robyn G Shiels launched his exceptional second album, The Blood of the Innocents, at Belfast’s Black Box. Joined by an array of talented musician friends, Shiels delivered a masterful set, excavating dark and earthly truths, crystallising, once more, his reputation as one of the country’s very finest songsmiths and an tale-wielding artisan, informed by an acute perception of memory and desolation, of the highest order. Three months on from that launch, we’re pleased to premiere Shiels’ latest video, for his track ‘This Deathly Charm’. Directed by Seamus Harahan, the video is sub-titled as “A song, a…

  • Guardians of the Galaxy

    August 4, 2014 - By 

    Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel’s big summer movie, is a hot-blooded, swaggering space-opera blockbuster and a finely-judged exercise in controlled chaos. On the one hand, it’s another big-budget, aggressively promoted film from the production factory of Marvel Studios, which has achieved unprecedented box-office success through shrewd creative decisions and a tight-fisted promotion of a ‘house style’ across their properties. On the other hand, they chose as writer-director (with co-writer Nicole Perlman) James Gunn, whose CV includes Super, in which a psychotic Rainn Wilson dresses as a superhero and runs around smashing people’s faces in with a wrench, and Tromeo and…

  • Interview: No Age

    August 4, 2014 - By 

    Three years on from unleashing the nuanced noise of their stellar third album, Everything In Between, Los Angeles duo No Age re-affirmed their reputation as one of the most accomplished experimental punk outfits around with the masterfully minimalist An Object, released in August last year. Propelled by its candour and bare-boned urgency, it galvanised guitarist Randy Randall and drummer/vocalist Dean Allen Spunt’s effortlessly off-kilter craft, the fuzzed-out forays of old taking a back seat in favour of a markedly more inconspicuous approach. But for a twosome so apparently motivated by and inclined towards impulse, one wonders: was there much intention at the…