• Irish Tracks of the Week – 24th June

    June 24, 2022 - By 

    The best tracks released across the island this week, all in one place​​ God Knows feat. Jah Master – Twelve 61 Cormorant Tree Oh – The Cave The Cave by Cormorant Tree Oh Michael Mormecha – Kraken Eoin Dolan – Hare Island Kate Moore – Cronachdain Suil Sun Mahshene – Closing Circles EP Closing Circles EP by Sun Mahshene jena keating – Nobody Can Have Me Trick Mist – Flagbearer Talos – All Ours The Barbiturates – False Idols False Idols (Single) by The Barbiturates Daire Heffernan – Wasters EP Mount Pelier – Sunday Sunday by Mount Pelier Love Command…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – June 17th

    June 17, 2022 - By 

    It’s been another stellar week for new Irish music of every ilk. Here’s the best of the lot, featuring Robocobra Quartet, Clara Tracey, Melts, Loah, Kynsy, CMAT, April, YARD and more Clara Tracey – Baby Witch Robocobra Quartet – Living Isn’t Easy Living Isn’t Easy by Robocobra Quartet Melts – Maelstrom Maelstrom by MELTS Ailbhe Reddy – A Mess Kynsy – Point of You April – That Feeling Loah – Your World Hamsandwich – LE SOLEIL CMAT – Peter Bogdanovich YARD – Auto Erotic The Zang – Loops EP Two Door Cinema Club – Wonderful Life

  • Track Record: Arthur Itis

    June 16, 2022 - By 

    Cork shapeshifter par excellence Arthur Pawsey, aka Arthur Itis, gives a guided tour to the weird and wonderful wax that have shaped his musical life Photo by Celeste Burdon Dr. Roger Payne – Songs Of The Humpback Whale This is a mega-special sound research album that makes for unreal ambient. Dr. Payne is mad for how animals echolocate, particularly owls and bats. He discovered that certain moths know that bats are screaming at them and can evade being munched. He was the first to record Humpback whale songs. Also you will recognise one of our whale friends from Kate Bush’s…

  • Reigning Supreme: An Interview with Pillow Queens

    June 14, 2022 - By 

    Blue balls, deep fakes, and good clean fun with the flourishing Dublin indie rock quartet Words by Addison Paterson // Photos by Loreana Rushe Pillow Queens are still for a rare minute. The Dublin four-piece just got back from touring their second LP Leave The Light On in the US, and it’s a couple of weeks before they head to the UK. Then Europe, then festival season. It’s quite the change from the album launch they experienced with 2020’s In Waiting — a virtual listening party with fans, all sat in their respective kitchens. Nought to one hundred.  For now, they’re…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 10th June

    June 10, 2022 - By 

    It may be festival season but the top-tier Irish music keeps coming. Here are the best tracks of the last seven days, including ROE, ZOiD x Meljoann, Myles O’Reilly, Hare Squead x Shauna Shadae, David Donohue and more ZOiD x Meljoann – Space Mission ROE – That’s When The Panic Sets In ROE · That’s When The Panic Sets In (Part I) David Donohoe – W​/​HERE W/HERE by David Donohoe Hare Squead x Shauna Shadae – Late Night Flex Myles O’Reilly – Shine Cocooning Heart by Myles O’Reilly SM Milligan – A Fragrance of Oceans A Fragrance of Oceans by…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 13th May

    May 13, 2022 - By 

    Here’s the very best Irish tracks of the week, featuring Aoife Nessa Frances, Post Punk Podge & The Technohippies, NIMF and more. Aoife Nessa Frances – Emptiness Follows Post Punk Podge & The Technohippies – The Living Wake NIMF – A Ballad for Looking into Time A Ballad for Looking into Time by nimf Cabin – Whatever You Have Cabin · Whatever You Have SELK – No Saviours No Saviours by SELK Lisa Canny – Medicine Rosie Carney – Tidal Wave Wastefellow – Post Credits Scene Seba Safe – I’m On Fire

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – May 6th

    May 6, 2022 - By 

    On this, the fifth Bandcamp no-fee Friday of the year, here are the very best Irish tracks and releases of the week, featuring Katie Kim, Aoife Wolf, The Department of Energy, J Cowhie & Bonnie Prince Billy, Arvo Party and more Katie Kim – Mona   Hour Of The Ox by Katie Kim J Cowhie & Bonnie Prince Billy – New Life New Life by Goodtime John & Bonnie Prince Billy Aoife Wolf – The Woman Who Shot Andy Warhol Screaming Waltz (Instrumental) by Aoife Wolf The Department of Energy – May Day (Landscape Mixtape) May Day (Landscape Mixtape) by…

  • Monday Mixtape: Aoife Wolf

    May 2, 2022 - By 

    Ahead of the release of her single ‘The Woman Who Shot Andy Warhol’ on Wednesday, fast-rising psych-folk artist Aoife Wolf gives us a guided tour of some of her all-time favourite songs. Photo by Aaron Cunningham Pixies – Monkeys Gone to Heaven I don’t know when the first time I heard this song was, probably in some nineties coming of age film but I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’d ever heard. When I started making music it was always my goal to sound like Pixies. I’m acutely aware of the fact that Aoife Wolf is…

  • Worship the Grounds: A Chat with Imbibe

    May 1, 2022 - By 

    On their fourth birthday, Zara Hedderman talks ethics & community with Gary Grant, the music-obsessed driving force behind Dublin’s finest – and soundest – coffee roasters, Imbibe Get your fix via Imbibe.ie During the depths of the pandemic, a handful of my friends started a monthly virtual coffee and music club. On a Sunday morning, sometimes Saturday afternoon, the six members would discuss albums unfamiliar to everyone spanning the 1960s to 2010s whilst enjoying a specialty coffee, or two over Zoom. Before delving into the chosen records, everyone described what roast they were drinking; their brewing method and the flavour…

  • Track Record: Junior Brother

    April 25, 2022 - By 

    Co. Kerry experimental folk trailblazer Ronan Kealy aka Junior Brother handpicks a selection of records that have left an indelible imprint on his music and life Photo by Leah Carroll Planxty – The Woman I Loved So Well Whenever I stick this album on, without fail I become lost in its world of folk characters, and in its landscape of field, castle, ditch and twilight. The whistle tune at the end of the final song, ‘Little Musgrave’, is as close to the sound of ascending to heaven as I’ve ever heard on record. Kate Bush – Hounds of Love Like…