Canadian artist and producer Abel Tesfaye AKA The Weeknd has unveiled the video to his new single, ‘Belong To The World’. Almost eight minutes in length, the video is directed by Californian Anthony Mandler, best known for having worked on sixteen videos with Rihanna. ‘Belong To The World’ is taken from Tesfaye’s forthcoming debut album Kiss Land. Watch the video via MTV here.
With their highly-anticipated second album on the horizon, Belfast/Lisburn three-piece Mojo Fury have unveiled the Tommy Keery-directed video to their new single, ‘The Difference Between’. The Michael Mormecha-fronted band have also announced that they have started a pledge campaign to assist the release of the aforementioned album, also named The Difference Between. Go here to learn move. Watch the video to ‘The Difference Between’ below.
Having wowed at Forbidden Fruit and set for Derry’s Ebrington Square on July 28, Chic featuring Nile Rodgers have announce a string of Irish dates in October. Starting in Belfast’s historic Ulster Hall on Wednesday, October 23 the five-date leg will culminate in a second night in Dublin’s Vicar Street on October 30. View the full dates below. October 23 – Ulster Hall, Belfast October 25 – Milk Market, Limerick October 27 – Radisson Hotel, Galway October 29/30 – Vicar Street, Dublin Tickets for the show go on sale next Friday, July 19. Good times!
The organisers of arguably Northern Ireland’s finest and most respected homegrown musical festival, Glasgowbury, have announced that this year’s festival – the thirteenth in its history – will be its last. Taking on Friday July 19 and Saturday 20 at Eagle’s Rock Valley, Draperstown, this year’s showcase – headlined by The Japanese Popstars, And So I Watch You From Afar and The Answer – will mark the transitional point where the Glasgowbury team move onto the next stage of its development. According to a press release posted on the official Glasgowbury website: “Progressing to the next stage of its forward-thinking…
Sacramento math rock trio Tera Melos have unveiled the Behn Fannin-directed video for their song, ‘Weird Circles’. The opening track from the band’s superb fourth album X’ed Out – released via Sargent House in April – the song is a typically bananas slice of experimental pop wonderment, something the video manages to reflect – via luminous cereal milk, robotic squirrels and dancing hotdogs – extremely well. Watch the video below. Alternatively/also stream X’ed Out via Bandcamp here.
You may know them as Rupert Morris (lead screamer, lyricist and guitarist in science-dance-metal troupe BATS) and Vinny McCreith (red-hooded bassist in Adebisi Shank and electronic solo artist as The Vinny Club) but together they are Speed Of Snakes. The Dublin-based duo recently premiered the first track from the sci-fi themed electro-rock project, as well as setting out the suitably silly backstory for the whole project: On the first day, 88 trillion years ago, the great snake Metatraxium created the Universe, the Earth and all the life upon it. Each species birthed from a succession of fantastic and horrifying eggs.…
In the third installment of the Inbound, we chat to Luke Bowen, frontman with Belfast-based alternative three-piece Bellos to discuss the band’s early beginnings, influences and the band’s plans for the next few months. ___ You formed last year. How did the band come about? Where you all friends beforehand and what motivated you to get the band together? “Aidan and I had just moved into our first house together. There was a deal in the off license for a bottle of Buckfast and six cans of beer for a tenner, so we obliged, got messed up and started listening to…
Having been earning their stripes on the Edinburgh live circuit over the last few years, alt-rock quartet A Fight You Can’t Win have been threatening to unleash their barraging, uniquely wrathful craft for some time now. Off the back of last year’s altogether promising Every Last Breath EP – itself worth a cursory listen, at the very least – the foursome have returned with a brief but vehement self-titled effort that could well see break new ground beyond the would-be confines of their whereabouts and serve as inspired springboard of sorts for a potential full-length release. Fronted by Ballycastle native Matthew…
Belfast-based alt-rock three-piece A Northern Light have unveiled the video to their new single, ‘Kill It’. Directed by Sean Duncan of Red Cap Productions, the video was edited by the band’s bassist Colm Laverty. The single will be officially released on August 5. Watch the video below.
Taken from their Stand Up EP, we have an exclusive preview of Belfast punk band Empty Lungs new single ‘Until The Day We Die’. Comprised of footage shot at the band’s EP launch show, the video was shot by Caught In The Headlight Productions. The video will be officially released on Thursday, July 11. After playing NSX Festival in Dundalk on August, the band will embark on a Scottish tour: August 14 – Sound Magic Studios, Ayr August 15 – Nice’N’Sleazy, Glasgow August 16 – Green Rooms, Perth August 17 – Tam’s Bar, Buckhaven (Matinee) August 17 – Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh (Club Night) August 18 – 20 Rocks, Dundee Details of a forthcoming European…