• Irish Tracks of the Week – June 11

    June 11, 2021 - By 

    It’s been another big week for new Irish music, with tracks coming from all over the country from emerging artists and established favourites. Dig into new releases from HAVVK, Cat, Orla Gartland, John Blek, Smoothboi Ezra, Jack O’Rourke and more. Mícheál Keating & Brendan McInerney – It’s Still There It’s Still There by Mícheál Keating & Brendan McInerney HAVVK – Automatic Automatic by HAVVK Cat – baby, blue HOROSHOKINO – Comrades Smoothboi Ezra – Without Me John Blek – Long Strand Orla Gartland – Do You Mind? Celaviedmai – Heal milk. – ‘In LA.’ Jack O’Rourke – Opera on the…

  • Monday Mixtape: Lorraine Nash

    May 31, 2021 - By 

    From Crosby, Stills & Nash to Two Door Cinema Club, fast-rising Kerry multi-instrumentalist Lorraine Nash waxes lyrical about some of her all-time favourite tracks. Damien Rice – Delicate I find that there is nothing more comforting than finding a song that seems to perfectly mirror a situation you are in, or a feeling you have. When I first heard this, it was like Damien Rice had taken the words directly from my mouth. I love how a song can apply to so many people in so many different ways and that’s why I would prefer for people to find their…

  • Irish Tracks of The Week – May 28th

    May 28, 2021 - By 

    It’s safe to say it’s been another stacked week for world-beating Irish music. Here’s the very best of the lot, featuring Eimear Reidy & Natalia Beylis, Saint Sister, Tolü Makay, A. Smyth, Hazey Haze, Wyvern Lingo, NCW and more. Eimear Reidy & Natalia Beylis – Whose Woods These Are Whose Woods These Are by Eimear Reidy & Natalia Beylis Saint Sister – Manchester Air (Live) Tolü Makay – Aye A. Smyth – Tempt Hazey Haze – Thugger Vibes New Mud -Void Void by New Mud NCW – NCW On NCW NCW – NCW On NCW by Apartment Records Dani Larkin…

  • Monday Mixtape: Tebi Rex

    May 24, 2021 - By 

    Just off the back of their excellent recent collaborative single with ROE, ‘Hanging With Trees’, and a slot at The Great Escape, alternative hip-hop duo Tebi Rex bring us eight eclectic choice cuts, spanning the global to their own backyard. Local Boy – Thoughts Probably the most believable Irish artist out right now. Believable in the sense that everything he creates just feels really earnest. It gets to the root of the thing that most people could spend a whole album trying to figure out. I often feel like I have Bees in my brain, and Thoughts captures that experience perfectly. It’s…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – May 21

    May 21, 2021 - By 

    It’s been another big week for new Irish music, with tracks and albums coming from all over the country from emerging artists and established favourites. Dig into new releases from Maria Kelly, Kojaque, Strange Boy, Elephant, NUXSENSE, VerseChorusVerse, Biig Piig, Toasted Heretic and more. Maria Kelly – eight hours Kojaque – Wickid Tongues Strange Boy – Prayers NUXSENSE – A sacred journey through the golden path A sacred journey through the golden path by NUXSENSE Rory Sweeney X Emby – Two Faces Cherym – Listening To My Head Hex Hue – Aquiver VerseChorusVerse – what if we won what if…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – May 14

    May 14, 2021 - By 

    It’s been another stellar week for new releases in every corner of the island. Delve into the best of the lot, featuring Whozyerman?, Documenta, AILSHA, The Altered Hours, Dani Larkin and more. Whozyerman? – All The Time To Kill Documenta – Silverwood The Altered Hours – All Amnesia AILSHA – FBOY Dani Larkin – The Red (Maca’s Return) Carrie Baxter w/ Jack T Charles – I Wasn’t Looking For You All Tvvins – Something Special Four Nights – Not This Time Clare Sands, Steve Cooney & Tommy Sands – Abair Liom Do Rúin Scattered Ashes – Parallel Lines EP

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – May 7th

    May 7, 2021 - By 

    On this glorious Bandcamp no-fee Friday, here are the very best Irish tracks and releases of the week, including Arvo Party, Fears, Stella, Art of Algebra, Joshua Burnside, Cryan x Uladh, Hex Hue, Loner Deluxe, Exhalers, Bantam, Alpha Chrome Yayo, Jordan Nocturne and more. Arvo Party – Devotions IV Devotions IV by Arvo Party Stella – you are here Art of Algebra – The Next Super-CME Under A Different Light by Art of Algebra Conor McCafferty – Bizwoozi EP Bizwoozi EP by Conor McCafferty Robocobra Quartet – Live Tape 1 Live Tape #1 by Robocobra Quartet Hex Hue – Aquiver…

  • Monday Mixtape: Dani Larkin

    May 3, 2021 - By 

    Hailing from the Armagh-Monaghan border, folk singer-songwriter Dani Larkin just released single ‘The Red (Maca’s Return)‘. Taken from her debut album, Notes For A Maiden Warrior – out June 18th – she guides us through eight songs that carry weight upon her as a songwriter and person, from the formative to the just-discovered. The Chicks – Travellin’ Soldier This was one of the first songs I used to sing. One of my uncles brought the ‘Home’ album back from the U.S. and another uncle of mine learned the guitar parts and I would sing it. It wasn’t until I was a teenager that I realised…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – April 30th

    April 30, 2021 - By 

    This week’s refreshingly eclectic releases include Loah’s incredible National Poetry Day release, Irish Refugee Council fundraising compilation European Endless – featuring Arvo Party, The Bonk, Fixity, Whozyerman? and more – Ghostking Is Dead, Soda Blonde, and many more. Loah – The Body to the Soul The Body to the Soul by Loah Ghostking is Dead – Biceps Biceps by Ghostking Is Dead Various Artists – European Endless European Endless: 12 by European Endless Bedrooms – Afterglow EP Afterglow by Bedrooms Ódú – Men Like Me Soda Blonde – In The Heat of the Night Small Talk by Soda Blonde Dani Larkin –…

  • Monday Mixtape: Whozyerman?

    April 26, 2021 - By 

    Ahead of the release of his stellar new single ‘All The Time To Kill’ on May 14, Waterford artist and former O Emperor frontman Paul Savage aka Whozyerman? selects, as he puts it, a random selection of tunes that I’ve brain labeled as “class”. Tindersticks – The Organist Entertains I discovered this piece watching ‘Eastbound and down’ – a series I would also highly recommend. I wasn’t too familiar with Tindersticks before this but it was a great introduction to their vast body of work, which I’m still only scratching the surface of. The tune itself is a beautifully brooding yet gentle…