• First acts announced for Electric Picnic 2014

    March 19, 2014 - By 

    Trip-hop pioneers Portishead and U.S hip-hop duo Outkast are amongst the first wave of acts announced for this year’s Electric Picnic. With tickets for the festival going on sale at 7pm tonight, the following acts were revealed to play the festival, taking place at Stradbally Estate, Co. Laois from Friday 29 to Sunday, August 31: Portishead Outkast Beck Foals Pet Shop Boys Paulo Nutini Chic featuring Nile Rodgers Lily Allen St. Vincent Simple Minds London Grammar Metronomy Slowdive Laura Mvula Annie Mac Flume The Stranglers Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks The Blades The Wailers Omar Souleyman White Denim Temples Sohn Jungle…

  • Watch: RAMS’ Pocket Radio – Love Is A Bitter Thing

    March 12, 2014 - By 

    Taken from his album Béton, Northern Irish singer-songwriter Peter McAuley AKA RAMS’ Pocket Radio has released the subtly sublime video for his new single, ‘Love Is A Bitter Thing’. Directed by Darren Lee, the video see a solitary and evidently yearning McAuley – currently in Texas for South by Southwest 2014 – in a desolate yet beautiful woodland, forcefully playing and treating his piano to inevitable (but perhaps necessary?) abandon RAMS’ Pocket Radio play the following dates throughout March: March 12: The British Music Embasy – SXSW, Texas March 14: The Full Irish Breakfast – BD Riley, SXSW, Texas March 14:…

  • Watch: BeeMickSee – Awkward

    March 12, 2014 - By 

    Featuring his good friend Kev Jones from alt-punk band Empty Lungs, Belfast-based hip hop artist Brendan Seamus AKA BeeMickSee has unveiled the video for his new single, ‘Awkward’. Directed by Lauren Dusty McLune, the video – also featuring Seamus – is nicely edited together Sarah McGlinchey. The single itself is taken from BeeMickSee’s forthcoming album, The Belfast Yank, which features co-production from Rocky O’Reilly. BeeMickSee will play the following dates over the next couple of weeks: March 17: w/Blood or Whiskey and More Than Conquerors – Lavery’s Bar, Belfast April 24: Sweeney’s, Dublin April 25: w/Pocket Billiards – Stiff Kitten, Belfast April…

  • Watch: The Wood Burning Savages – America

    March 12, 2014 - By 

    Having becoming highly evolved over the last couple of months, Derry alt-rock quartet The Wood Burning Savages have unveiled their first music video, for their single ‘America’. Shot on zero budget and featuring some masterfully-compiled stock footage, the video was created and edited by Chris McAlinden. Additional footage was supplied by Fiachra O’ Longain and Lisa Byrne. The single is officially release on March 18, and will be available from iTunes and all other major online retailers. Watch the video below.

  • The Flaming Lips and more for Forbidden Fruit

    March 12, 2014 - By 

    Oklahoma psych-pop masters The Flamings Lips are amongst several acts announced to play the Saturday of this year’s Forbidden Fruit festival. Taking place at Royal Hospital Kilmainham,  the festival organisers have also revealed that Bell X1, Fuck Buttons, Nils Frahm, The Young Knives, Vann Music and Flying Lotus (3D Show) will also play this year’s two-day event, taking place on Saturday, May 31 and Sunday, June 1. Priced at €49.50 for one day and €99.50 for the two, early bird tickets for the festival are currently on sale via Ticketmaster. Check out the video for the timeless ‘She Don’t Use…

  • Spectrum Festival 2014 announced

    March 11, 2014 - By 

    Featuring an eight-band bill comprised of both fast-rising and established homegrown talent, this year’s Spectrum Festival will take place at Belfast’s Speakeasy on Saturday, June 7. Headlined by Lisburn alt-rock maestros Mojo Fury and England-based quartet A Plastic Rose (above), prog rockers Kasper Rosa, alt-fock duo New Ancestors, five-piece The Late Twos, electronic trio Affleck, and indie pop bands Hurdles and Go Swim will also play the one-day festival, kicking off at 6.30pm. Admission is £12 and it’s £10 for students. Go here for the show’s Facebook event page. Check out the poster for the show below.

  • Dublin club night Seven Quarters announced

    March 11, 2014 - By 

    Details have been announced about the launch of Seven Quarters, an exciting new club night starting this April in Whelan’s of Wexford Street, as part of the venue celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary this year. A new project by Barry Lennon (Richter Collective, Community Of Independents and Hands Up Who Wants To Die) the night is set to feature some of the most exciting acts in the Irish music scene. Better still, guests will receive limited edition seven inch vinyl, featuring previously unreleased tracks, from the artists performing each club night (given away for free to the first 150 people in…

  • Watch: Little Matador – Stitch Yourself Up

    March 10, 2014 - By 

    Having had an extremely encouraging first year together, alt-rock band Little Matador have unveiled the video for their debut single, ‘Stitch Yourself Up’ A self-proclaimed “earth-quaking stomp full of swagger and intent; dripping aggression, danger and sex in equal measure” the video features the band’s frontman, Nathan Connolly, getting a little more than he bargained for. ‘Stitch Yourself Up’ will feature on the band’s forthcoming self-titled debut album, set for release on April 21. You can pre-order that here. Watch the video for the single below.

  • Watch: The Shaker Hymn – The Runaway

    March 6, 2014 - By 

    Featuring visuals by Brendan Canty of Feel Good Lost, Cork alt-rock four-piece The Shaker Hymn have unveiled the video to their new psych-tinged single, ‘The Runaway’. The second single to be lifted from their forthcoming debut album – the altogether curiously-titled Rascal’s Antique’s – the song was mixed alongside the album’s other nine tracks by Christian Best, who has worked with Mick Flannery and O Emperor. Check out the artwork for the single and its video – also featuring liquid footage by Paulski of Nano Projections – below.

  • Stream: Keith Moss & The Tightrope Walkers – Troubled Troubadour

    March 6, 2014 - By 

    Dublin four-piece Keith Moss & The Tightrope Walkers have released their latest slice of self-aware indie-pop in the form of single ‘Troubled Troubadour’. Released via independent label Reekus Records, the track is a self-proclaimed taste of what’s to come from the quartet’s forthcoming Reject the Robots EP, due out later this year. Keith Moss & The Tightrope Walkers play the following dates in Dublin over the next few weeks: March 14: Sweeneys, Dame Street (Human Music showcase) March 15:  The Mercantile, Dame Street (Reekus Presents: w/ Death In The Sickroom + Buffalo Sunn) March 28: Whelans, Wexford Street (The Midnight Hour…