• Under The Drum Festival Announces First Ever Programme

    July 26, 2024 - By 

    A brand new music festival set at the foot of the County Antrim Hills, just thirty minutes from Belfast, is set to hold its first ever iteration on Saturday 28th September. Set just outside Ballyclare, it takes its name from Drumadarragh, one of the hills overlooking its intimate setting of Breckenhill. Atop the bill are NI Music Prize-winning alternative folk artists, the supremely talented Joshua Burnside and Arborist, with the likes of indie-psych quartet Junk Drawer, Galway garage punk masters Oh Boland, Derry alt-pop artist Roe, experimental rock quartet Blue Whale, Brand New Friend, Cian Nugent, London act Arliston, Susie Blue, jangle-pop master Neil Brogan, Demi O’Hara…

  • Féile Na Gréine Reveal 2024 Line-Up

    July 23, 2024 - By 

    Féile Na Gréine is back, and the 2024 edition promises to be its most ambitious yet. Running from August 23rd to 25th, this annual, volunteer-run festival will take audiences on a three-day musical trail through the music capital of Ireland, Limerick City, stopping at an array of venues – from art spaces and underground clubs to craft breweries and street parties. It’s there we’re certain it will underscore its status as a supremely curated expression of Ireland’s world-beating DIY community. This year’s perfectly pitched line-up includes TTA favourites The Bonk, known for their song and freeform jazz improvisation led by…

  • Féile na Gréine Announce Dublin and Limerick Fundraisers

    July 17, 2024 - By 

    Very soon we’ll anointed with the knowledge of who all’s playing this year’s Féile na Gréine – the annual, volunteer-run Limerick festival that is right up there with the finest, supremely curated expressions of our world-beating, island-wide DIY community. Ahead of that, organisers have announced details of a couple of fundraiser gigs for this festival, set to take over Dublin and Limerick next week. With money raised at both going into funding this year’s festival, which takes over Limerick City form 23-25th August, Crowbar in Dublin will bring together Post Punk Podge & The Technohippies, Nashpaints and Aoife Wolf on…

  • Another Love Story Announce 2024 Line-up

    June 25, 2024 - By 

    Another Love Story have revealed the line-up for its upcoming 10th anniversary edition. Hands down one of the island’s very best summer festivals, ALS celebrates a whole decade in the game with its return to majestic Killyon Manor in Co. Meath across 23-25th August. And what a bill to mark the big occasion. As well as sets by the likes of Jape, Muireann Bradley, Poor Creature, Crispy Jason, New Jackson and more, this year’s festival will feature Ethio-jazz master Hailu Mergia, John Francis Flynn, Kíla, Mohammad Syfkhan, David Kitt, Ana Palindrome, Attention Bébé and more. And that’s before even getting…

  • Video Premiere: PostLast – Scavenge

    June 20, 2024 - By 

    Earlier this month, PostLast released their second single – and one of our Irish tracks of the summer thus far – ‘Scavenge’. Conjuring the likes of Mazzy Star and Beach House at their most subtly widescreen, it was a fresh introduction to a duo wielding an irresistible alt-pop sound from the off. Comprising HAVVK’s Julie Hough and Stephen McHale of BARQ, the project launched back in April with the sublime ‘Connect 4’. Across three minutes, it unveiled a songwriting pair with a kind of alchemy that perfectly deviates from their respective bands. Having first connected while completing a joint headline…

  • Quarter Block Party Announces 2024 Line-Up

    June 19, 2024 - By 

    Right up there as one of the most reliably outstanding fixtures in the Irish summer festival calendar, Quarter Block Party will return to Cork between 20th-21st July. It’s another supremely assembled programme from the organisers, with countless TTA favourites – from Search Results and Post Punk Podge & The Technohippies, to Crying Loser, Messyng and various others – taking over Test Site, Plugd Records, Coughlands and Crane Lane across the weekend. We’re a little hesitant to outright say you’d be silly to miss it, but you absolutely would to be fair. Get your tickets here and check out the show…

  • The Jesus Lizard Add Dublin Show To Comeback Tour

    June 5, 2024 - By 

    The Jesus Lizard have just announced a Dublin show as part of their upcoming comeback tour. David Yow, David Wm. Sims, Duane Denison and Mac McNeilly will stop off at the Button Factory on 15th January 2025. Tickets go on sale at 10AM this Friday, 7th June. The band, who will release their seventh studio album, Rack, via Ipecac on 13th September will also play their first-ever Northern Irish show at the Limelight, Belfast on 14th January.    

  • The Flaming Lips to Perform Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Live in Dublin

    June 5, 2024 - By 

    The Flaming Lips are set to perform their seminal tenth studio album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in Dublin next year. The Wayne Coyne-fronted band will perform their Technicolour 2002 triumph, live in full, at the 3Olympia in Dublin on 28th and 29th April 2025. The shows are part of their latest tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of the record, which doubled as a critical and commercial success upon release Tickets for the Dublin shows cost €61.85 and go on sale this Friday, 7th June at 10am. Revisit a classic Yoshimi single below.

  • The Jesus Lizard Set For First-Ever Northern Irish Show

    June 5, 2024 - By 

    U.S. noise rock legends The Jesus Lizard will play their first-ever Northern Irish show next year. Courtesy of Strange Victory, the David Yow-fronted underground titans will play the Limelight in Belfast on 14th January. Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 5th. The news comes as the band released their first single this century, the suitably searing ‘Hide & Seek’. It’s taken their first full-length release since 1998. Rack is released via Ipecac on September 13th.

  • Rachael Lavelle Set For UK and Ireland Headline Tour

    May 29, 2024 - By 

    Rachael Lavelle has announced details of a UK and Ireland tour for later this year A year on from releasing one of our albums of 2023, Big Dreams, the Dublin artist will play a string of dates throughout October and November, including Irish shows in Dublin, Belfast, Ennistymon, Limerick, Galway, Kilkenny and Clonakilty. Check out the full dates below. The news comes a week on from Lavelle revealing that she will be collaborating with Crash Ensemble for a show featuring songs from Big Dreams at the National Concert Hall on July 20th as part of Musictown Dublin 2024. She will…