• Video Premiere: Invaderband – Cheese Slices

    June 20, 2022 - By 

    If you were fortunate enough to catch Invaderband in Belfast or their hometown of Derry at the weekend, you’ll be well aware that they’re a band well and truly at the peak of their powers. Fronted by Adam Leonard, the band are masters at writing clever and considered art-rock, yet never at the expense of a lack of vanity that continues to set them apart. This resistance to kneejerk pretension, in a realm so casually fraught with it, is mirrored in their new single ‘Cheese Slices’. Having won the approval of various BBC 6 Music broadcasters among others, the single…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – June 17th

    June 17, 2022 - By 

    It’s been another stellar week for new Irish music of every ilk. Here’s the best of the lot, featuring Robocobra Quartet, Clara Tracey, Melts, Loah, Kynsy, CMAT, April, YARD and more Clara Tracey – Baby Witch Robocobra Quartet – Living Isn’t Easy Living Isn’t Easy by Robocobra Quartet Melts – Maelstrom Maelstrom by MELTS Ailbhe Reddy – A Mess Kynsy – Point of You April – That Feeling Loah – Your World Hamsandwich – LE SOLEIL CMAT – Peter Bogdanovich YARD – Auto Erotic The Zang – Loops EP Two Door Cinema Club – Wonderful Life

  • Fight Like Apes Announce Return For One Night Only

    June 14, 2022 - By 

    Fight Like Apes have announced their return for one night only. Hands down one of the most revered Irish acts of the modern age, the Dublin alternative rock band will break a six-year hiatus to headline 3Olympia on Friday, March 24th 2023. It comes fourteen years after the May Kay-fronted band released their acclaimed debut LP, Fight Like Apes and The Mystery of The Golden Medallion. Tickets for the show – which marks the band’s first live show in eight years – cost €26.90 and go on sale on Friday, July 17th at 9am. €1.00 from every ticket sold will…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 10th June

    June 10, 2022 - By 

    It may be festival season but the top-tier Irish music keeps coming. Here are the best tracks of the last seven days, including ROE, ZOiD x Meljoann, Myles O’Reilly, Hare Squead x Shauna Shadae, David Donohue and more ZOiD x Meljoann – Space Mission ROE – That’s When The Panic Sets In ROE · That’s When The Panic Sets In (Part I) David Donohoe – W​/​HERE W/HERE by David Donohoe Hare Squead x Shauna Shadae – Late Night Flex Myles O’Reilly – Shine Cocooning Heart by Myles O’Reilly SM Milligan – A Fragrance of Oceans A Fragrance of Oceans by…

  • Ghouls On Film: A Page of Madness

    May 25, 2022 - By 

    Since October last year, Belfast has been blessed by Ghouls on Film, a genuinely refreshing and carefully-curated monthly film club screening films challenging the representation of women in horror. Ran by Belfast-based artist Isabella Koban, it has already screened a series of stone-cold classics, indie releases, and lesser-known gems that explore how women can find agency in the world of horror. On Sunday, 29th May, the club returns to its primary home at the Black Box with one of its most unmissable events to date: a special, one-off screening of Teinosuke Kinugasa’s 1926 silent avant-garde masterpiece A Page of Madness. As well…

  • Premiere: YARD – Lawmaker

    May 18, 2022 - By 

    Myriad acts earmarked as “ones to watch” have, by virtue of any number of factors – both real and imaginary – have ceased to exist since time immemorial. Such is the way of the music industry; that cripplingly fickle clusterfuck of a fever dream that many of us, for one reason or another, dedicate a sizable portion of our lives to with little to no recompense, fiscal, metaphysical, or otherwise. And frankly, we wouldn’t have it any other way, for it’s more or less all in the pursuit. Which conveniently brings us to YARD, a Dublin quartet kneeling (and very well at that) at the altar…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 13th May

    May 13, 2022 - By 

    Here’s the very best Irish tracks of the week, featuring Aoife Nessa Frances, Post Punk Podge & The Technohippies, NIMF and more. Aoife Nessa Frances – Emptiness Follows Post Punk Podge & The Technohippies – The Living Wake NIMF – A Ballad for Looking into Time A Ballad for Looking into Time by nimf Cabin – Whatever You Have Cabin · Whatever You Have SELK – No Saviours No Saviours by SELK Lisa Canny – Medicine Rosie Carney – Tidal Wave Wastefellow – Post Credits Scene Seba Safe – I’m On Fire

  • Premiere: Naoise Roo – Almost Perfect (Live)

    May 6, 2022 - By 

    Last month, Naoise Roo unveiled an expanded version of her sublime 2015 debut album Lilith. Featuring five bonus tracks remixed by John Agnello and Jerome Froese, it brought into sharp focus the Dublin artist’s enduring singular talents as a vocalist and songwriter. Having just been announced to play this year’s Latitude Festival, all while making her mark Stateside, Naoise looks set for a seismic few months. Ahead of that, we’re pleased to present a first look at a new live video of inward-peering Lilith highlight ‘Almost Perfect’. One part of a longer live video due for release later in the year, the performance…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – May 6th

    May 6, 2022 - By 

    On this, the fifth Bandcamp no-fee Friday of the year, here are the very best Irish tracks and releases of the week, featuring Katie Kim, Aoife Wolf, The Department of Energy, J Cowhie & Bonnie Prince Billy, Arvo Party and more Katie Kim – Mona   Hour Of The Ox by Katie Kim J Cowhie & Bonnie Prince Billy – New Life New Life by Goodtime John & Bonnie Prince Billy Aoife Wolf – The Woman Who Shot Andy Warhol Screaming Waltz (Instrumental) by Aoife Wolf The Department of Energy – May Day (Landscape Mixtape) May Day (Landscape Mixtape) by…

  • Track Record: Junior Brother

    April 25, 2022 - By 

    Co. Kerry experimental folk trailblazer Ronan Kealy aka Junior Brother handpicks a selection of records that have left an indelible imprint on his music and life Photo by Leah Carroll Planxty – The Woman I Loved So Well Whenever I stick this album on, without fail I become lost in its world of folk characters, and in its landscape of field, castle, ditch and twilight. The whistle tune at the end of the final song, ‘Little Musgrave’, is as close to the sound of ascending to heaven as I’ve ever heard on record. Kate Bush – Hounds of Love Like…