• Win Tickets to Spilt Milk Festival

    November 8, 2021 - By 

    Next weekend, Spilt Milk festival makes it return to Sligo for its third edition. Coming a year on from its online event Transmission last November, the festival will return as an in-person series of live shows, installations, film screenings and workshops across 18th-21st November. Among the highlights from this year’s programme are the shows taking place at The Model across the weekend, namely Syn, Ngoni Egan, School Tour, Shammen Delly & Warmer Climes on Friday, Silverbacks, Cormorant Tree Oh, and Patty & Selma on Saturday, and Alannah Thornburgh & Branwen on Sunday To be in with a chance of winning a pair of tickets…

  • Monday Mixtape: Beauty Sleep

    November 8, 2021 - By 

    Off the back of their stellar new single ‘Go’, Ryan and Cheylene from Belfast indie-pop duo Beauty Sleep wax lyrical about some of their favourite tracks, from Caribou and Villagers, to HAIM and Yard Act. Caribou – You Can Do It Just a great tune, simple concept, executed well and a great morning motivator track! Also, a lot of excellent dogs in the video so what’s not to love? – Cheylene Rostam – From The Back Of a Cab I got heavily into Rostam this year, and this track and associated album (Changephobia) has been very close to me .…

  • Other Voices to Make Dingle Return

    November 4, 2021 - By 

    Other Voices will return to Dingle later this month. Celebrating its twentieth year, the Irish music institution will return for a four-day series of live shows in West Kerry across November 25-28th. Taking place both online and in-person at the Church of St James and the IMRO Other Room, Other Voices Twenty/Fiche Bliain Ag Fás will feature performances by the likes of John Grant, Fontaines D.C., Kay Young, Houseplants and Gemma Dunleavy. With many more acts are to be announced, all of these sets will be streamed live to venues throughout Dingle and will also be available to view free of…

  • Grouper Set For Dublin’s National Concert Hall

    November 3, 2021 - By 

    The National Concert Hall will play host to one of music’s most singular voices next year. Thanks to Foggy Notions, Grouper – the main project of Californian musician Liz Harris – will play the Dublin venue on Tuesday, April 12th 2022. In support of her recently-released 12th full-length, Shade, the date marks Grouper’s first show in the city since playing Unitarian Church in 2012. Tickets are from €28.50 and go on sale on Friday, 5th November at 10 am. Stream Shade in full below. Shade by Grouper

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 29th October

    October 29, 2021 - By 

    Good songs. Great songs. Almost certainly the very best of them released in the last week, including CMAT, Fixity, Denise Chaila, Erica Cody, Laurie Shaw, Malaki & Tolü Makay, M(h)aol, MuRli feat. Gemma Dunleavy, Roe & Ciaran Lavery and more. Denise Chaila feat. Murli – Energy Fixity – Fixity 7 FIXITY 7 by Fixity NewDad – Ladybird MuRli feat. Gemma Dunleavy – Odyssey M(h)aol – No One Ever Talks To Us Eoin Dolan – Mirror Liver Mirror Liver LP by Eoin Dolan CMAT – No More Virgos Erica Cody – Love & Light EP Various Artists – TENEMENTS TENEMENTS – Various…

  • CMAT Announces Irish Dates & Debut Album, Releases ‘No More Virgos’

    October 27, 2021 - By 

    The day is here at last: CMAT has announced details of her debut album. Having swiftly established herself as short of a revelation over the last couple of years, the Dublin-based artist will release If My Wife New I’d Be Dead via AWAL Recordings on February 25th, 2022. Including previously-released singles including ‘I Wanna Be a Cowboy, Baby!’ and ‘I Don’t Really Care For You,’ news of the 12-track album comes accompanied by the release of new single ‘No More Virgos’. In textbook CMAT fashion, it’s forward-pushing, earworming pop at its very best. “I’m the kind of girl who dates the same person…

  • Watch: M(h)aol – No One Ever Talks To Us

    October 27, 2021 - By 

    Year in, year out, the imminence of Samhain tends to bring about some … varying seasonal content. Thankfully, there are always exceptions to that rule. Taken from their forthcoming debut EP, Gender Studies, the video for ‘No One Ever Talks To Us’ by M(h)aol depicts women in scenes of horror, from Barbara Creed’s The Monstrous Feminine and Megan Fox’s Jennifer’s Body, to Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror. But it’s far from a kneejerk tie-in to mark the time of the year from the band, who are based between Dublin, Cork, London and Bristol. A fraught meld of buzz-saw textures, bobbing rhythms and Róisín Nic…

  • Monday Mixtape: Odd Morris

    October 25, 2021 - By 

    Taking in Radiohead, Billie Eilish, Miles Davis and more, Daragh Griffin from fast-rising Dublin quartet Odd Morris gives us a guided tour to the songs that have influenced the band’s upcoming EP, Cityscape The Ballet. Cityscape The Ballet is out on October 27th Jamie T – If You Got The Money I used to play this at house parties if someone threw me a guitar. I learned to play guitar when I was 8, but only began to sing when I was 19 or so. When I could sing and play this tune it was an “I’m able to do this…

  • Premiere: Ordnance Survey – Vico Road, July 1984

    October 19, 2021 - By 

    As one of the island’s most forward-pushing electronic propositions, Neil O’Connor has long intrigued and challenged as an artist over the years. It’s something that comes into sharp focus in his guise as Ordnance Survey. Next month, O’Connor unveils Field Work, a new LP via Scintilla Recordings. Produced mostly at his home in Drumcondra, Dublin, the album was born out of the use of field recordings made in and around the capital, as well as clips from television archives, the Dart, bicycles and vocal samples from Kerry 40 years ago. A simmering blend of understated synth, samples, piano and found sound,…

  • Watch: The Altered Hours – Thistle

    October 19, 2021 - By 

    Over the last couple of weeks, Cork’s finest the Altered Hours have been conjuring up their singular magic, night after night, in support of Fontaines D.C. at shows the UK. As an act that has commanded our attention since 2013, it’s been second-hand thrilling hearing high praise for the five-piece in their element. Ahead of a few more weeks zig-zagging across the UK and Ireland (including a Thin Air show at the Black Box with Documenta on November 27th, don’t you know?) the band have unveiled the video for their stellar new single, ‘Thistle’. Taken from their forthcoming second studio album,…