• Watch: Haunch – Twitching

    January 17, 2018 - By 

    The inaugural release from Robyn G Shiels’ new record label, Black Tragick Records, is one of major sonic heft from some of Northern Ireland’s pedigree bringers of the riff. After two years or writing and recording behind closed doors, Haunch release their debut album, Lay My Bones Beside The Others on January 26, and you can watch the video for first single, ‘Twitching’ below. Based in Larne – Larnia, for the rose-tinted – the band comprises Rory McGeown, Michael McKeegan & Willy Mundell, each of whose noisemaking chops are in no doubt, being current & former members of Therapy?, Throat and Dutch Schultz. A seemingly inevitable combination, the trio bonded over a mutual love of…

  • Mercury Set For Deserter Songs 20th Anniversary Irish Shows

    January 17, 2018 - By 

    It’s been announced that Mercury Rev will play four Irish dates in April celebrating the 20th anniversary of their seminal fourth album Deserter Songs. Billed as “a very special acoustic and intimate Performance” the New York band will play Bangor’s Wesley’s Centenary Church on Tuesday, April 17, Dolans Warehouse in Limerick on April 18, Galway’s Roisin Dubh on April 21 and Dublin’s Whelan’s on April 22. Tickets go on sale this Friday (January 19) at 9am. Released in September 1998, the critically-acclaimed Deserter Songs is Mercury Rev’s most successful album to date. The band released their eighth studio album, The Light…

  • Quare Groove: New compilation features rare Irish funk, soul, post-punk and electronics from 70s and 80s

    January 16, 2018 - By 

    Inimitable Dublin label and record store All City recently announced an exciting compilation, set for release on 2 February. The wonderfully titled Quare Groove Vol. 1  features eight cuts of rare, re-mastered and frankly thrilling ‘groove’ music produced in Ireland during the 70s and 80s. Artists and bands featured on the compilation include The Pumphouse Gang, Those Nervous Animals, Barry Werner and Micro Disney. As the All City crew explain: “Irish music of the 1970s was simply not synonymous with groove music in any way. Avid music aficionado’s were totally ‘rockist’ then (to use an old tag from the same time!)” The funk, disco, post-punk, electronic and experimental music featured…

  • The Cranberries’ Dolores O’Riordan Has Died

    January 15, 2018 - By 

    It has just been announced that Dolores O’Riordan, frontwoman of The Cranberries and member of D.A.R.K., has died suddenly in London. She was just 46 Her publicist confirmed the news in a statement. It read “The lead singer with the Irish band The Cranberries was in London for a short recording session. No further details are available at this time. Family members are devastated to hear the breaking news and have requested privacy at this very difficult time.” Limerick rock band The Cranberries rose to international fame in the 1990s with their debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t…

  • Watch: David Kitt – Still Don’t Know

    January 16, 2018 - By 

    Six days on from his New Jackson project being nominated for this year’s Choice Music Prize, David Kitt has returned with the title track from his upcoming four-track 10″ EP. Described by Kitt as “a travelogue within a dream, a jump-cut journey that crosses the globe. It’s one of those dreams you don’t want to wake from, where you want to go back under to piece the finer details together” it’s a soothing, typically stellar effort from the Dublin musician, accompanied with a pretty, wonderfully inspired by New York-based director/animator Lessa Millet. Kitt plays the following shows in Ireland and the UK…

  • Premiere: Cranky Face – Vultures

    January 13, 2018 - By 

    Galway rock outfit Cranky Face have shared their new single ‘Vultures’. Taken off their forthcoming EP set for release early this year, it’s a rollicking guitar number for fans of Queens of the Stone Age’s recent output, The Raconteurs and Pixies. With a host of festival appearances under their belt in 2017 and big plans lined up for the coming year, this is not one to be missed.

  • RTÉ Choice Music Prize Shortlist Revealed

    January 10, 2018 - By 

    RTÉ Choice Music Prize has announced its ten-album shortlist for 2017. The prize selects the best Irish album of the previous calendar year. The shortlist is as follows: Come On Live Long – In The Still Marlene Enright – Placemats and Second Cuts Fangclub – Fangclub Lankum – Beneath The Earth and the Sky James Vincent McMorrow – True Care New Jackson – From Night To Night Otherkin – OK Fionn Regan – The Meetings of the Waters Ships – Precession Talos – Wild Alee The winner will be chosen during a live event, which will be held at Vicar Street in…

  • Car Seat Headrest set for Olympia Theatre

    January 9, 2018 - By 

    Less than a year on from playing the Academy, Will Toledo’s Car Seat Headrest have been announced to play a show at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on Wednesday, May 16. The news coincides with the announcement that Toledo will release a re-imagined version of his 2011 album Twin Fantasy, on February 16 via Matador. Watch the brand new video for ‘Nervous Young Inhumans’ below. Tickets for the Olympia show are priced at €23.90 and go on sale on Friday, January 12.

  • Watch: Daniel John Paxton – Morning Crow

    January 9, 2018 - By 

    Dublin singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Daniel John Paxton has shared the first of a series of solo recordings made in his home over the past few months. ‘Morning Crow’ finds the front man of cosmic-Americana rockers Buffalo Sunn in more stripped back territory. Embracing his folkier side, Paxton’s touching, bittersweet lyricism is given plenty of room to breathe in this short acoustic number. With more new material promised to be on the way, we’ve plenty to look forward to from Paxton in the coming year. Have a look/listen to the video for ‘Morning Crow’ below, directed by A. Parkes

  • Rescheduled Breeders Date Announced

    January 9, 2018 - By 

    Thanks to Hurricane Ophelia’s handiwork back in October, The Breeders had to cancel their highly-anticipated return to Dublin at Vicar Street. A rescheduled date was promised and here we are: unless another act of God prevents it (touch wood) the band will play Vicar Street on Sunday, May 27. Tickets go on sale on Thursday, January 18. Back in November, Kim Deal reveal to Marc Maron that a new album will be released in 2018. Check out the full WTF podcast right here.