• Irish Tracks of the Week – 14th October

    October 14, 2022 - By 

    Taking in every corner of the island, here’s the very best tracks of the week from Aoife Wolf, Keeley, Moot Tapes, Kez, The Model Home and more. Aoife Wolf – The Wetlands Moot Tapes – Signs of Life: Part 4 Signs of Life: Part 4 by SSMMÜTT/Phil Christie April – Distraction Keeley – Totally Entranced EP Totally Entranced EP by Keeley The Model Home – Thinking Much Thinking Much by The Model Home Reevah – Call Me Up The Daisy Chain – Holibobs Kez – How Can You Not See Columbia Mills – Heart of a Nation Heart of a…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 7th October

    October 7, 2022 - By 

    This Bandcamp Friday, delve into the very best Irish releases of the week from Gilla Band, Farah Elle, Aonair, Talos, Seamus O’Muineachain, Uly, Moving Statues and more Gilla Band – Most Normal Farah Elle – Fatima FATIMA (Deluxe) by Farah Elle Aonair – Loveheart Birthmark Seamus O’Muineachain – Isthmus Isthmus by Seamus O’Muineachain Ciaran Lavery – Another Night at the Self-Indulgence Hotel Uly – keith, i want to be everything keith, i want to be everything by Uly Talos – Dear Chaos Moving Statues – Wonders Will Never Cease EP Wonders Will Never Cease EP by Moving Statues Cosmo –…

  • Don’t Go To The American Bar

    October 11, 2022 - By 

    My mate was in the paper a while back, having been thrown out of the Stormont grounds for taking their pet goat on a walk up the hill. Not a euphemism. Or a Michael Stone ‘Performance Art’ piece. I was in The American Bar in Belfast the other night when some of the staff had just come back from one of those big reach-around business awards, having won ‘The Best Bar’. The American Bar is the sort of place that would let you bring your pet goat in for a pint. Just don’t let it up on the table, or eat…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 30th September

    September 30, 2022 - By 

    In another excellent week of Irish music, dig into the best new sounds of the past seven days, including The Mary Wallopers, Fujiya & Miyagi feat. Everything Shook, banríon, Bedrooms, HamsandwicH and more. The Mary Wallopers – Cod Liver Oil and The Orange Juice banríon – dare to crush EP fooling by banríon Actual Acid – Half Time Bedrooms – huffing huffing by Bedrooms AILSHA – R.I.P. (Dead 2 Me) Paddy Hanna – Nightmares Imagine I'm Hoping by Paddy Hanna Ali Comerford – Cool Girl Pádraig Cooney – Centuries of Learning Centuries of Learning by Padraig Cooney This Throat – I sent it…

  • Galway’s Áras na nGael to host jungle and drum & bass weekender with Rua Sound

    September 27, 2022 - By 

    Galway-based jungle and drum & bass label Rua Sound is hosting a special two-day event at Áras na nGael in October. The label, which was launched in Galway by Cormac McMahon and Rob Flynn in 2015, has released music by some of the most respected names in underground jungle and drum & bass, including Sully, Sun People and Tim Reaper. Now, for their debut weekender, the crew are hosting a selection of these international acts alongside a line-up of Irish talent between Friday 14th October through Saturday 15th.  International acts on the bill include Arcane, Henry Greenleaf, Itoa, Sully and…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 23rd September

    September 23, 2022 - By 

    It’s been another stellar week for Irish music. Dig into the best new sounds of the past seven days below, featuring Elaine Howley, coldcall, Anna B Savage, ROE, Cormorant Tree Oh and more Elaine Howley – Autumn Speak Cormorant Tree Oh – Swoontide Swoontide by Cormorant Tree Oh coldcall – day_01 Anna B Savage – Ghosts ROE – That’s When The Panic Sets In Trick Mist – The Hedge Maze and the Spade The Hedge Maze and The Spade by Trick Mist Talos – Kites Dutch Schultz – Levil9 LØ – Green Out Patrick Kavanagh – Almost Everything… Anna Mieke –…

  • Trick Mist releases new album, The Hedge Maze and The Spade, on Pizza Pizza Records

    September 23, 2022 - By 

    Trick Mist has released his second album, The Hedge Maze and The Spade, via Dundalk’s Pizza Pizza Records. Listen below.  The Cork-based Louth native’s personal brand of experimental folk is fleshed out across these 10 tracks, evolving on the lush electronic manipulations, violin loops and introspective songwriting of his 2018 debut, Both Ends. Where that album was created in a period of flux for the artist, written partly during his travels across India and South-East Asia, and amidst his relocation to Cork, the inspirations for this new collection are tied to more internal concerns, and are rooted in memory.   The…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 16th September

    September 16, 2022 - By 

    Dive into the best Irish music of this week from Gilla Band, Farah Elle, Joshua Burnside, Kynsy, Clara Tracey, Meljoann and more.  Photo by Mark McGuinness Gilla Band – Post Ryan Farah Elle – Laundry Elaine Mai & MuRli – Ready Calmea – I know now I didn’t know, what it meant to really go I know now I didn’t know, what it meant to really go by Calmea Thee U.F.O. – Ponderous Fug Ponderous Fug by Thee U.F.O Waldorf + Cannon – Cut Loose Krea – September Sun Joshua Burnside – Late Afternoon In The Meadow (1887) Kynsy – Simple Life…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 9th September

    September 9, 2022 - By 

    Here’s the very best Irish releases of the week, featuring Narolane, Katie Kim, Ciaran Lavery, Aoife Nessa Frances, Grave Goods, Akrobat, Junior Brother and more Narolane – Rent Free Katie Kim – Hour of the Ox Ciaran Lavery – A Confident Woman Grave Goods – Die Akrobat – Basquiat’s Widow Zaska & Melina Malone – Just For One Day Aoife Nessa Frances – This Still Life Junior Brother – Good Friday Kyoto Love Hotel – When Do You Think It Begins EP When Do You Think It Begins (EP) by Kyoto Love Hotel Ben Flavelle-Cobain – electric//emotion electric//emotion by Ben…

  • Inbound: Bengo

    September 7, 2022 - By 

    Recent years have seen the culture of Ireland, music or otherwise, in constant flux. A new generation of heads has embraced a new sound, one that is led predominately by black artists who have thankfully dragged the country into the global world of Afropop and beat. It’s here we find producer and songwriter Daryl Bengo, or simply Bengo. Officially getting his start in music as a member of the now-gone Fresh Ré, Bengo cut his teeth playing the piano in church, watching his father. Now, the son of the preacher man is a solo artist that counts collaborations with Alicia Raye and…