• Free Download: Dott – Heroes for RSD 2016

    April 15, 2016 - By 

    Our favourite twee-pop band Dott have recorded their version of Heroes by David Bowie and to celebrate Record Store Day 2016 they are offering a free download of the track. Dott moved from Galway, Ireland to Toronto, Canada this year and have evolved into a two-piece band comprising of Anna and Evan. They have been experimenting with drum loops and home-recordings which will very soon culminate in the release of new material. In the meantime, they will perform at the Bowie Tribute Night in The Cracker Factory, New York on April 29

  • Picture This: Your National Visual Arts Guide- Future & Past

    April 15, 2016 - By 

    As we tentatively approach the summer galleries are beginning to launch their summer shows and draw their spring endeavours to a close. This looking ahead while checking back is one of the key themes across the exhibitions chosen for this edition of Picture This. The future of Ireland, her art and the wider contemporary art landscape is discussed in shows such as 2116 in Cork, EVA International in Limerick and Phototropism in Dublin. Casting our minds back forms the centrepiece of the Peter Dressler show in Belfast as the work or the late German photographer takes centre stage, this revisionary…

  • Video Premiere: Wastefellow – Wonder

    April 15, 2016 - By 

    Off the back of his excellent collaboration with MC Bobby Basil of hellish rap duo Dah Jevu, Wastefellow links up with director Conor Donoghue to create a beautiful digital haze to accompany the dazed and confused video for ‘Wonder’, the first single from his upcoming Amazed, A Maze! EP. Wastefellow is Dublin based experimental producer Diolmhain Ingram Roche. Citing influences from Flying Lotus to Sunn O))) and back via Tim Hecker, Wastefellow’s work is densely layered and innovative and placing slick hooks and honest vocals over unworldly synths and chewed up samples. On ‘Wonder’, a forlorn lead line, spacious beats…

  • Stream: Feather – Like No Other

    April 14, 2016 - By 

    The varying incarnations of Emma Garnett’s Feather project have featured casts of collaborations from multi-instrumentalist Ben ‘Bix’ McKenna (of Meltybrains?), afro-inflected musciains RiZa, iZem and Manden Express, to Come on Live Long‘s Louise Gaffney. In a similar way to her sister Loah, Garnett has been patient in her unveiling of music to the world, preferring to wait until something is as perfect and as ready as it can be before allowing it to be heard. Her latest offering, in collaboration with an eight-piece band, is the brand new single ‘Like No Other which is expected to be on an EP released…

  • First Acts Announced for Another Love Story 2016

    April 13, 2016 - By 

    Another Love Story returns to Killyon Manor for its third Summer Festival outing this August. Organised by Happenings and Homebeat the almost otherworldly festival promises terrific Irish and International live music and DJ sets, colourful instalments and plenty of room to explore. Today, the first round of acts have been announced for the weekend including Meltybrains? SlowPlaceLikeHome, Talos, Saint Sister, J.Cowhie, Beach, Variant Sea and more. Outside of music there will be talks, walks, cinema, theatre, yoga, Ching Gong, and a myriad of other elements aside from the music to lure you in. There will be more Irish and International live acts and DJs added…

  • Interlude Festival Reveal First Acts

    April 12, 2016 - By 

    Having made its inaugural outing last October, Interlude Festival is set return to the scenic surroundings of Dublin’s RHA Gallery & Ely Place across the weekend of June 24-26. Opting for a new summer date, increased capacity and a new outdoor stage, the three-day music, movie and art festival have announced Lisa Hannigan, Dimitri From Paris, The Sugarhill Gang, Crazy P, Booka Brass Band, exmagician and Alison Limerick amongst their first confirmed acts. Taking place over three stages, there will also be a record store, cinema, food garden and block party. Check out their current full line-up above and go here to buy early bird…

  • Lisa Hannigan Announces Irish Dates

    April 11, 2016 - By 

    In which she will preview songs from her forthcoming, highly-anticipated third studio album, Lisa Hannigan will play a string of 16 Irish dates this June. Kicking off at Kildare’s Riverbank Theatre on June 2 and culminating at Galway’s Roisin Dubh 23 days later on June 24 the tour will mark Hannigan’s first Irish dates since 2012. Check them our in full below. Tickets for all dates – featuring support from Ye Vagabonds – go on sale on Wednesday, April 13 at 9am. In which she will preview songs from her forthcoming, highly-anticipated third studio album, Lisa Hannigan will play a…

  • Watch: Molossus – Sine, Spiky & Orcas

    April 11, 2016 - By 

    Comprised of members of The Jimmy Cake, Hands Up Who Want To Die and Percolator, Dublin five-piece Molossus – formerly Art Slug – are set to record their debut album later in the year. The self-proclaimed sound of “an owl and a bear fighting over a mason jar full of electricity”, the band have featured in the latest installment Sean Zissou’s Practice Tapes in the form of three-song video compilation of tracks ‘Sine’, ‘Spiky’ and ‘Ocras’, filmed at Guerilla Sounds. Traversing the post-rock gamut, this material sits cross-legged somewhere between Portishead, Jessamine and Slint; brilliantly brooding and yearning forth in a tangible attempt to clasp…

  • First Acts Announced for KnockanStockan

    April 8, 2016 - By 

    An independent music and arts festival in the truest sense of the term, KnockanStockan festival has revealed the first 50 acts set to play its grand 10th outing on July 22-24. With 100 acts yet to be announced, Come On Live Long, The Altered Hours, Oh Boland, Meltybrains?, Overhead The Albatross and Robocobra Quartet are amongst the first wave of homegrown acts confirmed to play. Check out the first line-up in full below. Speaking about the first announcement, KnockanStockan music director Graham Sharpe said, ​”We are so psyched about the bands in this announcement, this really is our favourite time of year…

  • Album stream: Rusangano Family – Let The Dead Bury The Dead

    April 8, 2016 - By 

    Very few Irish acts have so comprehensively demanded our attention over the last couple of years quite like Rusangano Family. Having featured them as one of our “ones to watch” acts in our 15 For 15 feature last year and fondly recalling their unforgettable appearance to close our second birthday party at Dublin’s Twisted Pepper last May, the Limerick trio of God Knows, MuRli and mynameisjOhn have burned with a certain indomitable zeal from the very moment they set out on what has become a journey very much worth following. Now, after after a string of increasingly tenacious standalone releases, the trio have unveiled their…