• Watch: Silences – L.A

    November 24, 2017 - By 

    Set to play alongside Orchid Collective at Belfast’s Bar Sub tonight, Armagh five-piece Silences have unveiled their new single, ‘L.A’. A strong and typically earworming alt-indie effort from the Conchúr White, it shows the band moving into more full-bodied, electric territory, and is something of a departure from their more acoustic efforts of yore. Accompanied by their most pro visuals to date – courtesy of director Julian Moore Cooke – White said the track stemmed from a realisation Stateside: “I’m proud of the work that has been put in to get to this point and I like that a development can be heard in our catalogue. L.A…

  • Taylor Swift Set For Croke Park

    November 24, 2017 - By 

    With her sixth studio album Reputation having just become the best-selling U.S. selling-album of 2017 in just one week, Taylor Swift has announced has three UK and Irish dates for 2018, including Croke Park in Dublin on Friday, June 15. The Reputation Stadium tour will also include Manchester’s Etihad Stadium on June 8 and Wembley Stadium in London on June 22. Tickets (which will likely go very quick) go on sale at 9am on Friday, December 1.

  • Stream: Wyvern Lingo – Snow II

    November 23, 2017 - By 

    Having recently announced that their debut album launch on February 23 will now take place at the Button Factory due to demand, Bray trio Wyvern Lingo have unveiled new single ‘Snow II’. A song that presents a familiar situation with a heavy heart, it’s another compositionally exquisite, harmony-driven R&B pop masterclass from Caoimhe Barry, Karen Cowley and Saoirse Duane.  Mark our words: 2018 is Wyvern Lingo’s year for the taking.

  • Watch: Wastefellow – Enfold You

    November 22, 2017 - By 

    Dublin producer Diolmhain Ingram-Roche AKA Wastefellow has returned with one of his strongest efforts to date, ‘Enfold You’. Featuring visuals from Flann Manning, the single – which is a four-minute traipse of shuffling beats,  thick bass and floaty electronica patterns – is the first in a new series of tracks that Ingram-Roche  aims to put out between now and next Summer. Speaking more about the track, he said: “‘Enfold You’ began as an attempt to write a pop song from somebody who doesn’t necessarily appreciate a lot of pop music. As these pop ideals filtered through my own experiences and workflow, they began…

  • Watch: The Elephant Room – Naive Green

    November 26, 2017 - By 

    Dublin trio The Elephant Room have shared a new track ‘Naive Green’. Having formed in January of this year, the band comprised of singer and guitarist Frank Shortle, bassist Shane Martin and drummer Ian Hand have already a string of singles under their belt and have been honing a sound that will resonate with anyone with a penchant for 90s indie rock and the lo-fi charm of slacker styles. Earlier singles ‘Brisco’ and ‘Ashes’ showed us a band with a precocious knack for a hook early in their nascence as a group. We previously drew comparisons between them and the likes of Sparklehorse and Wilco and…

  • Stream: The 202s – Soul Don’t Boogie

    November 25, 2017 - By 

    Dublin’s The 202s have shared another single taken of their forthcoming second album From When The Future Was Yet To Hurt Us, set for release on 2 February 2018 via Difference/Repetition.  The trio of Mike Glennon, Steve Melling and Barry Smullen follow this years’ Up In Thin Air EP with more ventures into their new-wave, post-punk and krautrock influences. Along with its first single ‘Dash For The Exit (Real Love Doesn’t Lie)’, ‘Soul Don’t Boogie’ sees the group continuing to embrace grit, motorik groove and grizzly melodies. It’s done them a lot of favours, and finds them in territory they are more comfortable in than ever before, giving them chances…

  • Watch: Slow Place Like Home – Office Dancers

    November 20, 2017 - By 

    Currently working their way around the country on tour, Donegal’s Slow Place Like Home have unveiled the video for their new single ‘Office Dancers’. Shot by Paddy Cahill, directed by Jules Hackett and starring SPLH main man Keith Mannion and Sean McGinley (Braveheart, Love/Hate, Gangs of New York etc.) it’s a first-rate, typically unique accompaniment to the single, filmed entirely in location on Henrietta Street in Dublin. ‘Office Dancers’ is the lead track on SPLH’s new album, When I See You … Ice Cream! Read our review of the album here. Have a peek of the video and check out Slow Place…

  • Watch: The Sunshine Factory – Cruelest Animal

    November 20, 2017 - By 

    Cork’s The Sunshine Factory have steadily earned their reputation as one of the country’s very finest cosmically-inclined propositions. Having shared the stage with the likes of K-X-P and the Orange Kyte, the five-piece will release their highly-anticipated new EP, Cruelest Animal, at Cork’s Crane Lane on November 30. Released today, the title track from the release distils the essence of their neo-psych craft to a tee. A five-minute miasma of hazed-out, slow-burning psych, the song has been granted a whole new dimension of potency via visuals courtesy of For Eyes Creatives. We’re all over this – expect big things from these guys in…

  • Premiere: BODIES – NUMB

    November 20, 2017 - By 

    Almost a year to the day on from premiering his debut single ‘Nightmoves’ – a track we called “one of the most curious and captivating debut singles from an Irish artist” in 2016 – we’re pleased to present a first listen to ‘NUMB’ by Dublin’s David Anthony McGeown AKA BODIES. Released via Minor Fall Records today, the track is lifted from McGeown’s debut EP, SOAK, which is released on November 27. Recorded as a collaboration between McGeown and Overhead the Albatross members David Prendergast and Ben Garret, it’s a slow-burning, subtly anthemic alt-pop overture to breaking the confines of everyday ennui.…

  • Stream: Sea Pinks – Minimum Wage

    November 17, 2017 - By 

    Belfast’s ever-productive Sea Pinks are back with Minimum Wage – BBC Sessions (& Others) on December 8. Collecting the Neil Brogan-fronted threesome’s eight BBC sessions since 2012 and three new recordings, the compilation-of-sorts will mark the band’s first foray since the release of the excellent Watercourse back in May. The release’s frenetic, fuzzed-out title-track is something of a departure for the band. Recorded at the all analogue Lullabye Factory studio in Amsterdam during a day off on their 2017 European Tour, it’s all minimalist force and fury with a smirk. Driven forth with Brogan’s sneering refrain of “I’m sick of complaining”,…