• Stream: SBTRKT – New Dorp, New York

    July 23, 2014 - By 

    London’s favourite masked DJ Aaron Jerome, aka SBTRKT has unveiled an eccentric new track, featuring Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, called ‘New Dorp, New York’. The debut track from the producer’s much anticipated sophomore album Wonder Where We Land follows 2011’s much-lauded SBTRKT, an album that brought artists such as Sampha and Jessie Ware much-deserved exposure, as well as refining his tense, minimal post-dubstep into something that has been emulated ever since. This new track is even more bubbly and noisy than ever, with Ezra Koenig’s rambling lyricism adding a modest pop flavour to the song. Listen to ‘New Dorp, New York’ below. The new album…

  • Electric Picnic announces additional acts

    July 22, 2014 - By 

    Electric Picnic will be upon us in about a month’s time, and Ireland’s biggest music festival has added twenty-three new acts to their lineup, including a host of artists who performed at Longitude last weekend. The highlights of these new additions include Bombay Bicycle Club (pictured), Wild Beasts, James Vincent McMorrow and Hozier. The full list of the new acts will also see the following perform at the festival: SBTRKT, The 1975, Hercules & Love Affair, The Strypes, Walking On Cars, Le Galaxie, Shit Robot, Bp Fallon, Cathy Davey, Asgeir, Nick Mulvey, Sampha, Seinabo Sey, Rustie,  Nightbox, Sheppard, The Whereabouts, Trinity Orchestra…

  • Stream: Weezer – Back To The Shack

    July 21, 2014 - By 

    Having debuted the song on their cruise earlier in the year, Weezer have just made available the nostalgic ‘Back To The Shack’ to stream. It will be the lead single on their forthcoming tenth album – recorded with Ric Ocasek, who produced their first two, and most highly-regarded LPs – Everything Will Be Alright In The End, out on September 30.

  • Watch: Conor Oberst – You Are Your Mother’s Child

    July 18, 2014 - By 

    A new video has been released for ‘You Are Your Mother’s Child’, a track from Conor Oberst‘s latest album Upside Down Mountain. Oberst has been in the news more often than he would like recently, following a rape accusation that has since been confirmed untrue by his accuser. Thankfully, the American singer-songwriter hasn’t focussed on the injustice of the case and ensuing media frenzy, and has instead resumed his output of stripped back, melancholy folk. This new video is a welcome moment of serenity from the singer, quite befitting of the track it accompanies. Watch the new video below. Upside Down…

  • Listen: Sleep – The Clarity

    July 18, 2014 - By 

    The legendary stoner metal band Sleep have released a brand new track entitled ‘The Clarity’. It’s the first release from the group in over 20 years, following 2003’s monumental Dopesmoker – a single 63 minute track of thunderous and intoxicating guitar riffage. The Californian trio began creating music in the mid 90s and, drawing from influences as varied as Black Sabbath and Black Flag, helped pioneer the stoner rock genre. This new track promises more of the same, that familiar guitar groove slowed down to a crawl and unabashedly soaked in vibrato – you can almost feel the desert sand…

  • Watch: Sister Ghost – Scent

    July 18, 2014 - By 

    Derry garage-punk singer-songwriter Shannon O’Neill AKA Sister Ghost have unveiled the video for her debut single, ‘Scent’. Recorded by Russell Matbouli at Belfast’s Resonate Studio, the track is the first outing from multi-instrumentalist O’Neill, previously of Belfast-based three-piece Vanilla Gloom. The track – accompanied with an acoustic demo of the debut single – is available to stream/purchase via Bandcamp. Check that and the video for the track out below. Scent by Sister Ghost  

  • Interpol announce second Dublin Show

    July 18, 2014 - By 

    Due to massive demand, Interpol have announced that they will be adding an extra Dublin date in February next year. The extra date will be on February 11 in the Olympia. Tickets are priced at €39.05 and are on sale now. Have another look at the band’s new song ‘All The Rage Back Home’ here;  

  • The Jesus and Mary Chain set for “secret” Dublin Show

    July 18, 2014 - By 

    Scottish noise-pop pioneers The Jesus and Mary Chain have announced a ‘secret’ Dublin show for the end of the month. The band have been rehearsing in Dublin recently, and according to their facebook page they love it so much here that they’re going to put on a low-key performance at Vicar Street on July 31. Tickets are on sale now and are priced at €30. Take a look at ‘Just Like Honey’ below.

  • The Beards announce Dublin and Belfast shows

    July 17, 2014 - By 

    Hairy Australians The Beards will be bringing their beard-rock to these shores once again this December. The band, whose songs are exclusively about beards, will be performing at The Button Factory in Dublin and the Empire Music Hall  in Belfast on December 10 and 11 respectively.Tickets are on sale now. The band released their fourth album, The Beard Album, about beards this May and are returning after a visit to Dublin in March. Check out ‘Got Me A Beard’ below

  • Album stream: Geotic – Morning Shore

    July 17, 2014 - By 

    Will Wiesenfeld, the ambient electronic producer more commonly known as Baths, has released a new full-length album under the alias Geotic, entitled Morning Shore. The producer has been treating us to impossibly pretty electronic music since 2010, and his second release, 2013’s Obsidian received widespread critical acclaim. With this more recent project, the relaxing loop-based songs are more natural and revolve around acoustic guitar, in the style of producers such as Bibio and Tycho. Morning Shore is the first in a line of planned releases entitled Eon Isle, each to be based around a single instrument, and after hearing this first…