• Album Premiere: Zombie Picnic – Rise of a New Ideology

    March 9, 2018 - By 

    Progressive instrumental post-rock four piece Zombie Picnic release their new album, Rise of a New Ideology today. This follows up on the Limerick outfit’s 2016 debut LP, A Suburb of Earth, and is available on a limited run 12″ vinyl through Bandcamp and Burning Shed. Ideologically, it’s an ambitious work that’s inspired by political figures & commentators, and the most respected names in science fiction literature. As with acts like King Crimson, the finest progressive bands are unconfined by the box in which modern prog rock & post-rock artists find themselves trapped; Zombie Picnic’s sound is imbued with the kind of exploratory, trippy experimentalism found in classic psychedelic & space rock that’s been dragged forward a millennia,…

  • Red Bull Music’s Free Gaff Set For Dublin

    March 7, 2018 - By 

    This Easter Bank Holiday Weekend, Red Bull will present Free Gaff, a new, secret location event promising “three nights of debaucherous fun across three floors with three genres of music”. With more acts to be announced, Wyvern Lingo, Benjamin Damage, Mango & Mathman, Or:la, Palms Trax, Mella Dee, Loah and Erica Cody will play the Dublin City Centre Location across March 29-April 1. A BYOB event, tickets are now available priced €15 here. The exact location will be confirmed by email to all ticketholders no later than 24 hours in advance of their selected date.

  • Forbidden Fruit Add New Acts, Reveals Day-to-Day Breakdown

    March 7, 2018 - By 

    With Justice, Richie Hawtin, Glass Animals, Mike D, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Bonobo, Vince Staples, The War on Drugs, Grizzly Bear, Thundercat and more already announced, the following acts have been added to the bill for this year’s Forbidden Fruit Festival. Stephan Bodzin, Idris Elba, Novelist, Hookworms (pictured), Tensnake, Axel Boman, DJ Agotia, Call Super, Jasper James, Kornél Kovács, Loah, Trinity Orchestra, Earl Sweatshirt, Floating Points, George Fitzgerald, Or:la, SG Lewis, DJ Seinfeld, Booka Brass, Saoirse and Fehdah. Presented by POD, Forbidden Fruit Festival takes over Dublin’s Royal Hospital, Kilmainham across the bank holiday weekend of June 2-4. Here’s the day-to-day…

  • Stream: Orchid Collective – Winter’s Pass

    March 7, 2018 - By 

    Marking the onset of Spring from a long Winter, Dublin-based indie-folk quartet Orchid Collective‘s latest single, ‘Winter’s Pass’ could hardly have come at a better time. While retaining the serene, atmospheric sound they’ve been developing over the past few years through the harmony-led influence of Fleet Foxes, there’s an evolution in its composition that has, in our view, defined it as the outfit’s best work to date. A product of home recording, as opposed to more produced previous releases, ‘Winter’s Pass’ has a substantially more organic quality, without sounding in any way lo-fi. In any case, it’s a sparse and measured arrangement that subtly utilises the kind of electronic manipulation that’s seen folk music’s contemporisation in recent years, in…

  • The Flaming Lips Set For Galway Show

    March 7, 2018 - By 

    The Flaming Lips will play this year’s Galway International Arts Festivals, live at the festival big top, on July 26. Co-presented by Róisín Dubh and the festival, the show will be the three-time Grammy award-winning band’s only Irish date of 2018. Tickets – which go on sale at 9am on Friday – are priced at €49.50.

  • Beach House Set For Dublin Return

    March 7, 2018 - By 

    Having last played the city in the same venue back in 2015, Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House will return to play Dublin’s Vicar Street on Saturday, October 12. The announcement comes accompanied with the release of ‘Dive’, the second single to be taken from the band’s forthcoming seventh album, 7. Tickets for the Dublin show in October are priced at €35 and go on sale this Friday. Read our 2015 interview with Victoria Legrand from Beach House here.

  • Women’s Work 2018 Announced

    March 6, 2018 - By 

    Belfast’s Oh Yeah Music Centre has announced details for its third annual Women’s Work. Launching in acknowledgement of the centenary year of the Representation of The People Act 1918, organisers of the festival said that the artwork – which is designed by Belfast-based Illustrator Fiona McDonnell – “incorporates the colours and tone of what became a milestone event in the in the fight for democratic equality, which is still being fought today around the world in different forms. Established with the aim to celebrate and highlight the contribution that women make to music, the festival launched in 2016, and boasted a schedule including…

  • Premiere: Agu – Ines

    March 6, 2018 - By 

    Originally from Poland, Agu is a Galway-based artist whose music embraces a variety of languages and musical influences. Premiered here, her new single ‘Ines’ is a wistful and nuanced confessional ode striking a midpoint between indie-folk, solo post-rock and ambient. Taken from her forthcoming new album – the Tony Higgins-produced follow-up 2015’s Ke Světlu (Towards the Light) – Agu has said of the single: “It reflects a period of my life that changed everything. It is about realising you are suffocating even though you don’t have to. All you need to do is to spread your wings and try to fly. Leave…

  • Stream: Cherym – Take It Back

    March 5, 2018 - By 

    If you’re not already familiar with Derry threesome Cherym, you will be soon. Hannah Richardson, Nyree Porter and Lauren Kelly – who we featured as one of our 18 for ’18 acts at the start of the year – will release their debut EP, Mouth Breathers, in April. Doubling up as their debut single, the release’s lead single ‘Take It Back’ is a catchy-as-all-hell burst of punked-out noise-pop that demands an instant second listen. Take it Back by Cherym

  • The The Announce Belfast Show

    March 5, 2018 - By 

    As part of their 2018 comeback run of shows that includes Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens on July 7, London post-punk/synth-pop legends The The have announced a show at Belfast’s Mandela Hall on Friday, July 6. October will mark the 35th anniversary of the band’s debut album, Soul Mining. The band last performed live as part of David Bowie’s Meltdown at London’s South Bank in 2002. Tickets for the Belfast show are £39 (including booking fee) and are on sale now.