• Irish Tracks of the Week – 4th October

    October 4, 2024 - By 

    It’s a top-tier one for new Irish music this Bandcamp Friday. Here’s our playlist of the best of it, featuring RÓIS, Post Punk Podge & The Technohippies Feat. Andrea Mocanu, Maria Somerville, Optic Chain, Fierce Shook and more Post Punk Podge & The Technohippies Feat. Andrea Mocanu – Not Enough Women RÓIS – MO L​É​AN MO LÉAN by RÓIS Maria Somerville – Projections Niamh Bury – Geordie Optic Chain – The Shadow of a Snakepit The Shadow of a Snakepit by Optic Chain Robbie Stickland – It’s Cool To Start Smoking In Your 30s The Wood Burning Savages – Grind…

  • Adebisi Shank Announce Return After 10 Years

    September 30, 2024 - By 

    Adebisi Shank are reuniting after a decade away. Ten whole years on from announcing their split, the Wexford/Dublin instrumental rock trio took to Instagram today to reveal the news. “This is the return of a band called Adebisi Shank,” the trio wrote. “New songs. New shows.” When they went their separate ways back in 2014, the band – comprising guitarist Lar Kaye, bassist Vinny McCreith and drummer Mick Roe – said: “We hereby announce the end of a band called Adebisi Shank. From the three of us to all of you, thank you for coming with us on this crazy…

  • Monday Mixtape: The Low Field

    September 30, 2024 - By 

    Ahead of the release of their self-tilted debut album on 18th October, Diarmuid Ó Sé of Limerick-based quartet and certified Good Lads The Low Field talks us through some of his all-time favourite songs, featuring Low, The Hotelier, Junior Brother and more. Pre-order The Low Field and catch the band live over the next while: October 17th: Anseo, Dublin November 1st: Pharmacia, Limerick The Low Field by The Low Field Sinai Vessel – Where Did You Go? The Low Field first got together as a direct result of myself, Danny, and Brendan becoming infatuated with this album in the winter…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 27th September

    September 27, 2024 - By 

    Dive into the very best Irish releases of the week, featuring Silverbacks’ latest, the debut single by Dose, a new double A-Side by Joshua Burnside, Cork levellers Dankenstoned’s Bongster, the return of Overhead, The Albatross, and more Silverbacks – Giving Away An Inch Of Dose – Cuckoo Joshua Burnside – Marching’ Round the Ladies / The Good Life Dankenstoned’s Bongster – Melter Melter by Dankenstoned's Bongster Overhead, The Albatross – This Is Like Love Ahmed, With Love. – Yes, Of Course. Affection to Rent – If We Fall

  • Shortlists for NI Music Prize 2024 Announced

    September 24, 2024 - By 

    With just over seven weeks to go, the shortlists for the 2024 Northern Ireland Music Prize have been revealed. A year on from Arborist scooping the main Album of the Year prize,  it’s another strong, genre-spanning showing across the board for what is – give or take a few elements – essentially the North’s answer to the Choice/Mercury Prize. As expected, the strongest shortlist of the lot is the Album of the Year Prize, which features some of the island’s very best releases of the last 12 months, including Exmagician’s Sit Tight, Last Immediate Images by Blue Whale (pictured), Blouse…

  • Monday Mixtape: Adore

    September 23, 2024 - By 

    Lara Minchin and Lachlann Ó Fionnáin of fast-rising Irish garage-punk outfit Adore share their all-time favourite tracks, spanning from Wire, Paul Brady and Gilla Band to Brian Eno, The Breeders, and Dutch glam-rock mystery Pantherman With support from Shark School, Adore headline Whelan’s in Dublin on Saturday, 2nd November. Go here for tickets Lachlann Ó Fionnáin: Gilla Band – Why’d They Hide the Bodies Under My Garage? When I was 16, I saw Gilla Bnd for the first time on the 2nd of their two nights in Vicar Street in 2019. I kinda did it to challenge myself as I…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 20th September

    September 20, 2024 - By 

    Between the sublime keening of RÓIS and Macdara Yeates’ incredible debut LP, it’s a huge week for Irish traditional vocal music. Throw in the likes of new Junior Brother, Bedrooms, and The Low Field, and we’re feeling a little blessed RÓIS – Feel Now MO LÉAN by RÓIS Junior Brother – Take Guilt Macdara Yeates – Traditional Singing from Dublin Traditional Singing from Dublin by Macdara Yeates Bedrooms – Perfectly Still Perfectly Still by Bedrooms The Low Field – Gather Gather by The Low Field Moon Landing – Shadows Collide K3:LU – Vol.II Cortis David C Clements – The Garden

  • Under the Drum 2024

    September 19, 2024 - By 

    For all the many truly special DIY festivals scattered across the island (Féile Na Gréine, Open Ear, Quarter Block Party…) there is always and forever space for more. For those of you of a similar disposition who are located in and around Belfast—or not adverse to a little road trip—the inaugural outing for Under the Drum on Saturday, 28th September, is very worthy of your attention. Taking over Breckenhill, a family home and events venue just 30 minutes from Belfast and on the edge of the Antrim hills, the boutique festival is, blessedly, set to bring together various artists we’ve…

  • Stream: Junior Brother – Take Guilt

    September 19, 2024 - By 

    A new Junior Brother song has long been good cause for some celebration here at TTA. In the six years since we featured him as one of our 18 artists to watch out for in 2018, Ronan Kealy has underscored his status as one of the island’s all-time songwriting greats. A born curveballer par excellence, the Kerry native increasingly put paid to the kneejerk “alt-folk” mantle via sprawling songs that are as burrowing and beatific as they are brilliantly-realized. It’s a fact woven throughout his latest, ‘Take Guilt’. Paired with a lyric video by Dylan Gomery, it’s a sorcerous five-minute…

  • Premiere: PostLast – Mizen

    September 18, 2024 - By 

    In their first six months, PostLast, the duo of HAVVK’s Julie Hough and BARQ’s Stephen McHale, have consistently drawn us in with their prismatic alt-pop craft. Three months after premiering their third single, ‘Scavenge,’ we’re excited to present a first listen of the wonderfully wistful ‘Mizen,’ out tomorrow, 19th September. The song was inspired by one of Julie Hough’s earliest memories – a family holiday in Cork and Kerry. The accompanying music video features the same seascapes that mesmerised her as a child. Reflecting on the track, Julie said: “I remember being in the back seat of the car, listening…