• Irish Tracks of the Week – September 4th

    September 4, 2020 - By 

    It’s been yet another stellar week for new releases in every corner of the island, boosted by today being the monthly Bandcamp Friday, which sees the platform waive all its own cuts – take that, Spotify. Delve into the best of the lot, featuring Lankum, Girl Band, JYellowL, NewDad, Arvo Party, A Bad Cavalier, Girl Band, Æ Mak, Alpha Chrome Yayo and many more. Girl Band – Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage (Live at Vicar Street) Live at Vicar Street by Girl Band A Bad Cavalier – Losers Losers by A Bad Cavalier Lankum feat. Spider Stacy…

  • Live From Guerrilla Studios – Episode 5

    September 3, 2020 - By 

    It’s Thursday in the cursed year of our Lord 2020, which can only mean one thing. Yes, from 10 pm tonight (September 3rd), the country’s very best weekly broadcast Live From Guerrilla Studios returns with another stellar line-up. Having already played host to the likes of The Bonk, Maija Sofia, Junior Brother and Myles Manley, tonight’s live episode will feature sets from Aoife Nessa Frances and Elaine Malone. There will also be some additional pre-recorded revelry from Jinx Lennon and Ordnance Survey. Join Ray Wingnut, in-house turntablist Djackulate, Moojoo the merch monkey and more from 10pm over at the Live From Guerrilla Studios YouTube…

  • Idles Set For Vicar Street Shows

    August 24, 2020 - By 

    Idles are set for their return to Ireland. The Joe Talbot-fronted five-piece will play Dublin’s Vicar Street on May 16th and May 17th. Check out the full May/June dates below. Tickets for the Dublin show go on sale on Friday, August 28th at 10am. Presale begins at 10am on Wednesday, August 26th.

  • Irish Tracks of The Week – August 21st

    August 21, 2020 - By 

    From Kojaque, Paddy Hanna, ROE and Tolü Makay, to Wyvern Lingo, Bitch Falcon, Insideawave and beyond, here’s the very best Irish tracks released this week. Kojaque – Shmelly Tolü Makay – Don’t Let Go Insideawave – Tour Guides CARRON – Even Sad Birds Sing (Kobina Remix) Wyvern Lingo – Brutal Lottery Bitch Falcon – Test Trip Blakkheart – Honey Boy ROE – Hotel Sequence w/ LukeFly – Free Paddy Hanna – Colosseum The Shaking – Uninspidered

  • Live From Guerrilla Studios – Episode 4

    August 18, 2020 - By 

    A weekly must-watch since it launched via The Bonk and co. last month, Live From Guerrilla Studios returns this Thursday, August 20th with another comprehensively deadly line-up. As well as specially commissioned video appearances from Fears and Gash Collective, this week’s episode will feature live performances from Dunk Murphy aka Sunken Foal and one of our must-watch acts for 2020, Acid Granny (pictured). As ever, things kick off in the company of Ray Wingnut et al. from 10pm right here. Make a note of that for this Thursday and, while you’re at it, consider donating to the Live From Guerrilla Studios Patreon here.

  • Watch: Paddy Hanna – Colosseum

    August 18, 2020 - By 

    From 2014’s stellar Leafy Stiletto to last year’s Frankly, I Mutate, Paddy Hanna has always delivered the goods, and then some, on the album front. In a couple of months’ time, we’ve naturally come to expect more of the same from one of the country’s most consistently rewarding songwriting voices. Set for release via Strange Brew on October 16th, The Hill – which was recorded by Girl Band’s Daniel Fox – is headed by new single ‘Colosseum’, a self-described Doo Wop song about Gladiators, “or more specifically a song that deals with feeling out of step in a world not made for…

  • Premiere: Fixity – FIXITY 6

    August 14, 2020 - By 

    The music of Fixity, aka Irish multi-instrumentalist Dan Walsh, has always been perfectly thicket-like – a dense, sprawling mesh in which to get lost, happily stuck even. Since mid-2016, it’s been a conduit for all kinds of probing, forward-moving forays into God-knows-where. Spanning live EPs and first-rate LPs including last year’s No Man Can Tell – a release TTA’s Ryan O’Neill called “a brilliantly loose, shapeshifting record that is quite difficult to compare to anything else” – Walsh and co-conspirators including tenor saxophonist Emil Nerstrand have consistently delivered carefully-crafted, often masterfully mind-melting music. New release FIXITY 6 doesn’t deviate from this tried-and-test…

  • Video Premiere: Meljoann – Business Card

    August 18, 2020 - By 

    Hands down one of the country’s most idiosyncratic solo artists, Meljoann is a musical mind positively resistant to second-guessing. Taken from her forthcoming “anti-capitalised themed” album HR, recently singles ‘Company Retreat’ and ‘O Supervisor’ presented an artist whose sonic vision is matched by a perfectly unpigeonholeable visual body of work. New single ‘Business Card’ goes one further. Accompanied by easily one of our favourite Irish videos of the year thus far, it’s a deft and masterfully disorientating effort from an artist very much on the rise.

  • Artists Announced For Ireland Music Week 2020

    August 13, 2020 - By 

    The line-up for this year’s Ireland Music Week has been revealed. Following over 400 applications, 50 acts have been selected to perform at the showcase at Dublin’s Lost Lane across October 6-9th. The conference will take place via the IMW website across four days. Featuring the likes of Denise Chaila, Fears (pictured), PowPig, MuRli, and Bleeding Heart Pigeons, check out the full line-up below. Angela Dorgan, CEO of First Music Contact, said: “We will be one of the first Irish festivals this year to move the complete event online while hiring back all of our annual team who work freelance and…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – August 14th

    August 14, 2020 - By 

    From Pillow Queens, Perlee, Delush and New Pagans, to Meljoann, Nerves, April, PORTS and beyond, here are the very best Irish tracks and videos released this week, all in one place. Pillow Queens – Holy Show Perlee – Bird and the Statue New Pagans – Yellow Room Meljoann – Business Card PORTS – Reading In The Dark Nerves – Time Trial April – Forever – To Feel Like Tonight delush – Lean On It Happyalone. – Private Sedative Brass Phantoms – Hurricane