• Gilla Band Announce Third LP, Share New Single ‘Eight Fivers’

    July 13, 2022 - By 

    Gilla Band have announced details of their forthcoming third album. The Dublin quartet, fka Girl Band, will release the twelve-track Most Normal via Rough Trade Records on October 7th. Once again self-produced, produced and mixed by the band’s bassist Daniel Fox, at Sonic Studios and their rehearsal space, the album will be available on ltd edition blue vinyl and an exclusive alt cover white vinyl, limited to 1,000 copies. Pre-order here. Accompanying the news is lead single, ‘Eight Fivers,’ featuring the immortal opening refrain: “I spend all my money on shit clothes.” Speaking about the song, frontman Dara Kiely said:…

  • Video Premiere: Drew Makes Noise – Secret To Life

    July 5, 2022 - By 

    Over the last couple of years, Andrew Wilson, aka Drew Makes Noise, has re-emerged as a serious contender. Formerly one-quarter of NI indie rock maestros Ed Zealous, the Belfast-based artist has been carving out a wonderfully idiosyncratic – not to mention purposefully DIY – niche via singles including ‘Your Garden Grows’ and last year’s ‘Baby Blue’. It’s a trajectory that’s in full swing on new single ‘Secret To Life’. A masterfully unravelling effort, with some sublime production work to boot, it distils the widescreen finesse of Drew’s craft in under three minutes. Speaking about the track, he said: “I wrote…

  • Video Premiere: Invaderband – Cheese Slices

    June 20, 2022 - By 

    If you were fortunate enough to catch Invaderband in Belfast or their hometown of Derry at the weekend, you’ll be well aware that they’re a band well and truly at the peak of their powers. Fronted by Adam Leonard, the band are masters at writing clever and considered art-rock, yet never at the expense of a lack of vanity that continues to set them apart. This resistance to kneejerk pretension, in a realm so casually fraught with it, is mirrored in their new single ‘Cheese Slices’. Having won the approval of various BBC 6 Music broadcasters among others, the single…

  • Fight Like Apes Announce Return For One Night Only

    June 14, 2022 - By 

    Fight Like Apes have announced their return for one night only. Hands down one of the most revered Irish acts of the modern age, the Dublin alternative rock band will break a six-year hiatus to headline 3Olympia on Friday, March 24th 2023. It comes fourteen years after the May Kay-fronted band released their acclaimed debut LP, Fight Like Apes and The Mystery of The Golden Medallion. Tickets for the show – which marks the band’s first live show in eight years – cost €26.90 and go on sale on Friday, July 17th at 9am. €1.00 from every ticket sold will…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 27th May

    May 27, 2022 - By 

      This week sees the release of anticipated albums from Just Mustard and Wallis Bird, sensational singles from the likes of EFÉ and Sorcha Richardson, some great music videos and a whole lot more Just Mustard – Seed Heart Under by Just Mustard EFÉ – LIME Sorcha Richardson – Archie Wallis Bird – I Lose Myself Completely MuRli feat. Jafaris – Rocks MOXIE – Kaki Travi The Native – ishouldbesleeping Big Love – SIRENS Oisin Mod – Honeycomb The Heathen Choir – The Raging Song Revolution Above Disorder – Annihilator Annihilator by REVOLUTION ABOVE DISORDER Kilgour – Set It Alight

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 20th May

    May 20, 2022 - By 

    Another great week of Irish music sees new releases from the established likes of SOAK, Fixity, Talos Sean Being and Melts, while some debut singles & EPs drop from Yard and Pastiche. Fixity – Always Again [feat. Philip Christie] Sean Being – Faux Window FAUX WINDOW by Seán Being Yard – Lawmaker Melts – Spectral SPECTRAL by MELTS Soak – Swear Jar Talos – Dance Against the Calm Pastiche – Freak Show Symphony EP

  • Video Premiere: Henry Earnest – “Free”

    May 20, 2022 - By 

    Dublin dream pop artist Henry Earnest has shared a new music video for “Free”. Check it out below.  It’s the second video to be shared from Earnest’s recent album, Dream River,  following December’s visualiser for ‘Trouble feat. Banríon’. “Free” is directed by Dublin-based photographer, cinematographer and visual director Sophie O’Donovan.  In it, we see Earnest on a stage, bathed in pastel-hued pink and blue light, dancing next to a street lamp beneath a glowing moon. Simultaneously subtle and radiant, the video captures the atmosphere of Dream River perfectly. Self-released in February, the seven-track album blends lo-fi bedroom indie pop a…

  • Premiere: YARD – Lawmaker

    May 18, 2022 - By 

    Myriad acts earmarked as “ones to watch” have, by virtue of any number of factors – both real and imaginary – have ceased to exist since time immemorial. Such is the way of the music industry; that cripplingly fickle clusterfuck of a fever dream that many of us, for one reason or another, dedicate a sizable portion of our lives to with little to no recompense, fiscal, metaphysical, or otherwise. And frankly, we wouldn’t have it any other way, for it’s more or less all in the pursuit. Which conveniently brings us to YARD, a Dublin quartet kneeling (and very well at that) at the altar…

  • Kendrick Lamar Announces Dublin Show

    May 14, 2022 - By 

    Kendrick Lamar is set to make his Dublin return. Off the back of his new, critically-acclaimed fifth album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, the trailblazing rapper will play 3Arena on Sunday, November 13. Support on the night comes from Baby Keem and Tanna Leone. Tickets for the show – which marks Lamar’s first show in the city since 2018 – are priced from €70 and go on sale at 12pm on Friday, May 20th here.

  • Premiere: Naoise Roo – Almost Perfect (Live)

    May 6, 2022 - By 

    Last month, Naoise Roo unveiled an expanded version of her sublime 2015 debut album Lilith. Featuring five bonus tracks remixed by John Agnello and Jerome Froese, it brought into sharp focus the Dublin artist’s enduring singular talents as a vocalist and songwriter. Having just been announced to play this year’s Latitude Festival, all while making her mark Stateside, Naoise looks set for a seismic few months. Ahead of that, we’re pleased to present a first look at a new live video of inward-peering Lilith highlight ‘Almost Perfect’. One part of a longer live video due for release later in the year, the performance…