• Mixtape Preview: Amazing Grace

    December 3, 2019 - By 

    “If you watch modern music documentaries, you have all these talking heads who explain it and lead you by the hand through the whole thing, but in this, the music envelopes you, there’s no chat.” These words by Joe Boyd, one of the producers on Aretha Franklin concert film, Amazing Grace, sums up, with incision and pure, matter-of-fact concision, what sets it apart in one fell swoop. Originally directed by the Oscar-winning Sydney Pollack, and later predominantly realised by producer Alan Elliott, it is an experience that is revelatory in all the right places. Capturing the Queen of Soul as…

  • Video Premiere: Extravision – Our City

    November 27, 2019 - By 

    You may recall, at the start of the year, we featured Dublin’s Extravision in 19 for ’19, our series profiling nineteen genre-spanning Irish acts that we had high hopes for the year ahead. And sure enough, the trio have well and truly into gear. Comprising members of Sissy, Surge and No Spill Blood, the band’s new single, ‘Our City’ is an equal parts searing and celebratory overture to Dublin. Recorded with Daniel Fox of Girl Band at Sonic Studios, it calls out and stares down the runaway bureaucracy of the city’s landlords and hotel developers with fist-clenched aplomb. Ahead of new releases coming in the…

  • Sigrid Revealed as First Indiependence 2020 Headliner

    November 26, 2019 - By 

    Sigrid has been announced as the first headliner for next year’s Indiependence festival. The Norwegian pop sensation, born Sigrid Solbakk Raabe, will top the bill on one of the days of next year’s three-year event,  which returns to Mitchelstown in Co. Cork across July 31-August 2 2020. Weekend tickets for the festival are on sale now, priced 149.00 for 3 Day Camping and 189.00 for 3 Day Camping (VIP).

  • Faith No More, Deftones, Refused & More For Sunstroke 2020 at Punchestown Racehouse

    November 26, 2019 - By 

    Well, well, well. What about this for a line-up. Across June 13-14 2010, Sunstroke 2020 will take over Punchestown Racecourse for one of the strongest Irish festival bills in recent memory. Taking place over three stages, the inaugural festival will feature sets from Faith No More (pictured; playing one of their first shows in four years), Deftones, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Killing Joke, Refused, Helmet and more. See the full line-up below. Sunstroke festival originally ran from 1993 to 1995. Early bird tickets go on sale on Tuesday, December 3rd at 9am, priced €129.50 for weekend tickets and €159.50 for…

  • Blanck Mass For Belfast and Dublin

    November 26, 2019 - By 

    Blanck Mass is set for a couple of Irish shows next year. The scintillating noise project of Benjamin John Power of Fuck Buttons, Blanck Mass will stop off at Belfast’s Ulster Sports Club on Friday, March 13th and Dublin’s Workman’s Club on March 14th. Tickets for Belfast go on sale Thursday at 10am (price TBC). Dublin tickets are priced €16 and go on sale on Friday at 10am.

  • Other Voices Reveal Full Weekend Timetable

    November 25, 2019 - By 

    Other Voices have revealed the full timetable for its return to Dingle this weekend. Taking place across various venues in the Co. Kerry coastal town across Friday, November 29th to Sunday, December 1st, this year’s outing will feature the Music Trail, the Other Voices Hub and more. Check out the schedule – featuring Junior Brother, Aoife Nessa Frances, Fehdah, Porphyry, God Knows, Shrug Life and more – below.

  • The Flaming Lips Set For Galway

    November 25, 2019 - By 

    The Flaming Lips will make their return to Galway next year. The Wayne Coyne-fronted psych-pop maestros – who last played the festival last year – will play the Big Top at Galway Arts Festival on Saturday, July 18th. Tickets cost €49.50 and go on sale at 9am on Friday, November 29th. Back in July, the band released their fifteenth studio album, King’s Mouth. Revisit an older classic below.  

  • Album Premiere: Eoin Dolan – Commander of Sapiens

    November 22, 2019 - By 

    On his third full-length LP, Commander of Sapiens, Galway musician Eoin Dolan underscores his status as one of the country’s finest songwriters. Conjuring everyone from Animal Collective to the Beach Boys, songs like ‘Microship Visions’ and ‘Sheena’ meld starry-eyed harmonies and cosmic wanderlust with masterfully woozy refrains and sublime melancholia to deliver nine tracks of first-rate, surf-influenced sci-fi pop. Released in proud association with Galway-based collective Citóg and featuring long term collaborators Conor Deasy (guitar), James Casserly (drums) and Adam Sheeran (bass), the album wonderfully veers between themes including environmental destruction, mass consumerism and human cybernetics. Surely you’re sold by now? Stream it…

  • Open Ear Christmas Party @ The Sound House

    November 22, 2019 - By 

    Having just announced its return to Sherkin Island in 2021, Ireland’s very best festival Open Ear is throwing a Christmas party at the Soundhouse in Dublin on December 30th. And it’s almost certain to be the best line-up in the city that night. Bringing together Rising Damp (pictured), Rian Ryan, DJ Egg, Robert Curgenven & Kat McDowall (presenting AGENESIS), Natalia Beylis, Ngoni Egan, DJ Capricorn, Glenn O’Brien, tickets for the event are just €12. Want to risk it? It’s €15 on the door. 10pm-3am. Tell your friends.

  • King Krule Set For Dublin Show

    November 19, 2019 - By 

    King Krule will play Dublin next year. Taking place as part of his 2020 Northern American and EU tour, the English artist and multi-instrumentalist, born Archy Ivan Marshall, will play the Olympia Theatre on Thursday, March 19. Tickets cost €30 and go on sale this Friday at 10am. Check out the video for new single ‘Hey World!’ below.