• Shortlists For Northern Ireland Music Prize Announced

    October 4, 2022 - By 

    The shortlists for this year’s Northern Ireland Music Prize have been announced. At this year’s awards ceremony at Belfast’s Ulster Hall, the following NI acts will vie for Album of the Year, Single of the Year, Video of the Year and Live Act of the Year. Album of the Year And So I Watch You From Afar – Jettison Dark Tropics – Ink Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra – The Unfolding  Invaderband – Peter Gabriel Leo Miyagee – Act III Mob Wife – Eat With Your Eyes  Phil Kieran – Nightride Robocobra Quartet – Living Isn’t Easy Rory Nellis – Written…

  • Galway’s Áras na nGael to host jungle and drum & bass weekender with Rua Sound

    September 27, 2022 - By 

    Galway-based jungle and drum & bass label Rua Sound is hosting a special two-day event at Áras na nGael in October. The label, which was launched in Galway by Cormac McMahon and Rob Flynn in 2015, has released music by some of the most respected names in underground jungle and drum & bass, including Sully, Sun People and Tim Reaper. Now, for their debut weekender, the crew are hosting a selection of these international acts alongside a line-up of Irish talent between Friday 14th October through Saturday 15th.  International acts on the bill include Arcane, Henry Greenleaf, Itoa, Sully and…

  • Video Premiere: Waldorf & Cannon – Cut Loose

    September 16, 2022 - By 

    Few Irish acts have carved out a niche as distinctive as Waldorf & Cannon. Comprising Philip Wallace and Oisin Cannon, the Derry/Donegal duo’s alternative multi-instrumentalism has proven equal parts emphatic and earworming on singles including ‘Omit The Logic’ and ‘We Are Your Government’. New single ‘Cut Loose’ ups the ante and then some. Doubling up as the duo’s finest most potent single effort to date, the song explores the perils of 21st-century living and prescription medication addiction across four minutes. Produced and recorded by Wallace – or Waldorf – in his Co. Donegal studio earlier this year, it features additional guitar from…

  • Video Premiere: John Blek feat. Cathy Davey – Lyric & Air

    September 14, 2022 - By 

    Over the last few years, North Cork singer-songwriter John Blek has consistently underscored his rep as one of the island’s most deeply engaging artists. On albums such as 2020’s The Embers and 2016’s Cut The Light, he has offered up carefully-crafted folk majesty of the highest order. It’s something Blek wonderfully doubled down on last year, with the release of ‘Ether & Air,’ the final part in the artist’s Catharsis Project – a four-album exploration into themes of the sea, the earth, the embers, and the air. A year on, Blek returns with arguably his strongest single effort to date, ‘Lyric &…

  • New Two-Day Event, Haunted Dancehall, Set for Dublin’s National Concert Hall

    September 7, 2022 - By 

    A new two-day event, Haunted Dancehall, is set to take over National Concert Hall next month. Across October 1st-2nd, the event will take place across 5 rooms at the Dublin venue with a host of homegrown and international experimental and electronic artists. As well as Oneohtrix Point Never performing his first Irish show in 11 years, South East London artist Coby Sey, Caterina Barbieri (pictured) making her Irish debut, and the incredible Ana Roxanne, the programme will also feature Lalla Sakini, Elaine Howley, Fears, Blackhaine, Roger Doyle, Frog of Earth and more. Check out the full current line-up for the Foggy Notions event…

  • IMMA Nights to host event celebrating Black women and non-binary people in electronic music

    August 31, 2022 - By 

    The Irish Museum of Modern Art will host a special event celebrating the role of Black women and non-binary people in the evolution of dance music this week.  Taking place on Thursday 1st September as part of the IMMA Nights series, the free event will explore the often undervalued contributions of Black women and non-binary people throughout the history of dance music – as DJs, producers, promoters, dancers and vocalists – from its origins in cities like Chicago and Detroit in the ‘80s to its global status today. Featuring talks, film and music, the evening has been co-programmed by Ashley…

  • Dublin Digital Radio Announce Alternating Current 2022

    August 29, 2022 - By 

    Dublin Digital Radio have announced the return of its annual celebration of sound artists, electronic experimenters and DJs, Alternating Current. Coming a year from its exceptional inaugural outing, the second iteration of the festival will return to the airwaves and Dublin city this October. Beginning on the 28th, the programme will feature specially commissioned radiowork by artist and resident of the station, Aisling-Ór Ní Aodha, which will be broadcast on ddr. On Saturday, 29th, the event will once again take over the Depot at The Complex in Dublin City. Divided into two concerts – Deep Listening and Beyond the Human – the likes of BABY NITS,…

  • Mary Wallopers Announce Tour With New Single ‘Frost Is All Over’

    August 23, 2022 - By 

    Modern Dundalk trad icons The Mary Wallopers are set to return to the road following a hugely successful, outright decimation of UK and Irish stages and crowds last time around. To accompany this news, they’ve released a video for brand new single, ‘Frost Is All Over’, their update of the Irish folk song, taken from their forthcoming album – out in autumn. The band themselves say “Frost is All Over is a traditional Irish song about taking everything in your stride and not caring about what everyone says you should care about. We added the verse about landlords as we feel they are a sensitive sort who need reminding of how…

  • Watch: Poor Creature at Féile na Gréine 2022

    August 20, 2022 - By 

    Where on earth would we be without Féile Na Gréine? Currently underway in venues throughout Limerick city, the not-for-profit festival is, without question, one of the purest embodiments of DIY, forward-pushing art & music to be found anywhere on this island. Kicking this year’s festival off in style, organisers nabbed the sublime Poor Creature – the new collaborative project from Ruth Clinton of Landless and Lankum’s Cormac MacDiarmada – for a set as part of their Bring Your Own Lunch (BYOL) series. On perfect par with an unforgettable BYOL set by Naive Ted last year, the pair deliver a wonderfully enthralling set of…

  • Video Premiere: Fonda – Letting Go

    August 3, 2022 - By 

    Ah, the merciless march of time. A friend to absolutely no one yet its very existence means we’re no longer totally averse to confab about the best music released this year. There may be five whole months to go but, as it stands, we’re sitting very pretty indeed. It’s a fact that was underscored on Friday just passed with the release of ‘Letting Go’ by long-time TTA favourites Fonda. The music-making moniker of Limerick artist Liam O’Connor, the project has yielded some pure-cut gems over the last few years — from 2016’s sublime ‘Dreaming‘ to the No Begonias EP, released back in 2020. Having amicably parted ways with the…