• Line-Up Announced For Output Showcase

    January 9, 2018 - By 

    Returning to Belfast on February 8, the Output music conference and showcase will host a day of seminars, panels and keynote speeches at Belfast’s MAC featuring some of the national music industry’s most highly-noted speakers and practitioners. In the evening, several of the city’s venues will host another series of free showcases featuring a selection of Irish bands and solo artists, curated by the likes of The Thin Air, PRS For Music, Help Musicians NI, The Live Room, Nialler9 and more. We’ll be teaming up with Rally for a show at Babel, located at the Rooftop of Bullitt. Performing will be New…

  • Applications Open for Stendhal Festival 2018

    January 8, 2018 - By 

    Hands down one of our favourite Irish summer festivals, Stendhal have made their annual call for applications for acts, artists and traders. Set to return to Ballymully Cottage Farm in Limavady across August 10-11, you can apply for this year’s outing by going here and filling an online form. Festival director Ross Parkhill said, “The Submission process always throws up some amazing finds, Ryan McMullan who has sold out the Mandela Hall and the Limelight in the past 12 months first came to our attention via our submissions, likewise with acts such as SOAK and several other notable names from the…

  • Premiere: Sweat Threats – Hermit

    January 4, 2018 - By 

    With their pure and perfect aim to make “post-punk party music for a public too often deprived of a good time”, Sweat Threats is the new project from Tayne’s Matt Sutton and Niall Jackson (AKA Swimmers and Bouts). Kickstarting their year as they mean to go on, debut single ‘Hermit’ is a blistering opening gambit melding the duo’s respective command of tight, fist-clenched punk and burrowing pop moments channelling two of Vancouver’s finest: Death From Above and Japandroids. A nice tie-in? Recorded and produced by Sutton and Jackson in various bedrooms and rehearsal spaces around London throughout 2017, the single was mixed by…

  • General Fiasco Set For One-Off Reunion Show

    January 4, 2018 - By 

    Formerly the indie kings of Belfast, General Fiasco return for a one-off reunion show at Voodoo on Wednesday, January 31. The band, formed of Mid-Ulster natives Stephen Leacock and brothers Owen & Enda Strathern, gained notable popularity in the UK indie circuit in their stint together, before the trio’s last show together as General Fiasco took place in June 2013. Their early EPs & 2010 debut album Buildings, led to their featuring in the likes of The Inbetweeners, and in the years since their dissolution, they’ve performed together and apart in various guises, including with Oh Volcano and Franklyn. Tickets cost £10, and in the spirit of independent venue support, will only…

  • Stream: Dandy’s Loft – Shadows In Motion

    January 2, 2018 - By 

    Set to release their debut album in the first quarter of 2018, Lurgan indie quintet Dandy’s Loft well and truly grabbed our attention last June with their four-track debut EP, Introspector. Seven months on, the band are back with the ‘Shadows In Motion’. The lead single from their upcoming LP, it picks up where Introspector left off, proving a carefully crafted and masterfully mournful effort conjuring the likes of Grizzly Bear, Department of Eagles and The Black Heart Procession. As first gambits for upcoming debut albums go, this is right up there with the most promising we’ve heard from an Irish act in quite…

  • Video Premiere: PrYmary Colours – Lighter Side of Day

    December 22, 2017 - By 

    Christmas is nearly upon us but some are still dreaming of the Summer, particularly Cayisha Graham and Daire Gohery of electro-pop duo PrYmary Colours as they mark the release of their Lighter Side of Day EP with a video for the 90s inspired lead track of the same name. It was shot by Sean Gallagher at Fuinneamh festival in Loughcrew, Co. Meath and Casa Bacardi at Electric Picnic this year, capturing those hedonistic festival vibes completely. As a bonus, the band are offering three tracks Lighter Side of Day, Sunscape and Can’t Do Nothing At All for free as a Christmas present. Click here to download until January 1st.

  • Album Stream: Crevice – In Heart

    December 18, 2017 - By 

    Comprised of Irene Buckley of Wry Myrrh, Elaine Howley of the Altered Hours and Morning Veils, and solo artist, Morning Veils member and co-runner of KantCope, Roslyn Steer, the music of Crevice was made for these early dark evenings and associated end-of-year contemplation. Recorded by Cathal Mac Gabhann (also of The Altered Hours), their debut album, In Heart, is a ten-track journey masterfully blurring the lines between electronic nocturnalism, balmy darkwave and sleepy-headed dream-pop. Released via Irish cassette label Fort Evil Fruit today, the album – which was mastered by Noel Summerville, and features a great cover image from Carolyn Collier – conjures the smalltown phantasm…

  • Quarter Block Party Reveal Full Line-Up

    December 18, 2017 - By 

    The full line-up has been announced for Quarter Black Party 2018. Set to take over various venues in North and South Main Street in Cork across Friday 2 to Sunday February 4,  the folow artists will perform: O Emperor, Percolator, Pillow Queens, The Sunshine Factory, Tandem Felix (pictured above), Yenkee, Lowlek, Hawkbastard, Rory Francis O’Brien, Cal Folger Day, Davy Kehoe, Robbie Kitt, Andy Wilson & The Toys, Bad Bones, Fuzzy Hell, Pale Rivers, Damsel, Elaine Malone, HEX, Postcard Versions, God Alone and PowPig. Elsewhere, there’ll be DJs in the form of Ben Bix, Dim The Lights, and Stevie G, as well as Vinyl…

  • Hands Up Who Wants To Die Announce Lineup Change & Return Show

    December 18, 2017 - By 

    For several years, arguably Ireland’s finest noise rock outfit, Dublin’s Hands Up Who Wants To Die have devastated rooms across Ireland & Europe, led by the singular stage presence of one Barry Lennon. His ominous presence read death knells over the unified metallic discord conjured by Paul Clynes, Matt Hedigan and John Breslin – known for respected DIY-spirited acts like No Spill Blood, Wild Rocket and Vatican II. Two spectacular records rose out of that particular alchemy: Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, and Vega In The Lyre. The band have announced Lennon’s unfortunate departure from the band with the following statement: “It’s been a…

  • Watch: Half Foward Line – Hey, Can I Try On Your Glasses?

    December 18, 2017 - By 

    Having released one of our favourite Irish albums of the year, Half Forward Line are back with a video for their new single ‘Hey, Can I Try On Your Glasses?’ featuring a profane refrain that Henry Rollins would be proud of. The video is an everyday tale of madness and obsession revolving around the spectacle of spectacles starring Barry Richardson (a familiar name for So Cow fans via their tribute song to him) and Rusted Rail’s Keith Wallace. It was filmed in various locations around Galway and written, edited and directed by John Cavanagh. The group’s debut album The Back of Mass…