• The Flaming Lips to Perform Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Live in Dublin

    June 5, 2024 - By 

    The Flaming Lips are set to perform their seminal tenth studio album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in Dublin next year. The Wayne Coyne-fronted band will perform their Technicolour 2002 triumph, live in full, at the 3Olympia in Dublin on 28th and 29th April 2025. The shows are part of their latest tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of the record, which doubled as a critical and commercial success upon release Tickets for the Dublin shows cost €61.85 and go on sale this Friday, 7th June at 10am. Revisit a classic Yoshimi single below.

  • The Jesus Lizard Set For First-Ever Northern Irish Show

    June 5, 2024 - By 

    U.S. noise rock legends The Jesus Lizard will play their first-ever Northern Irish show next year. Courtesy of Strange Victory, the David Yow-fronted underground titans will play the Limelight in Belfast on 14th January. Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 5th. The news comes as the band released their first single this century, the suitably searing ‘Hide & Seek’. It’s taken their first full-length release since 1998. Rack is released via Ipecac on September 13th.

  • Rachael Lavelle Set For UK and Ireland Headline Tour

    May 29, 2024 - By 

    Rachael Lavelle has announced details of a UK and Ireland tour for later this year A year on from releasing one of our albums of 2023, Big Dreams, the Dublin artist will play a string of dates throughout October and November, including Irish shows in Dublin, Belfast, Ennistymon, Limerick, Galway, Kilkenny and Clonakilty. Check out the full dates below. The news comes a week on from Lavelle revealing that she will be collaborating with Crash Ensemble for a show featuring songs from Big Dreams at the National Concert Hall on July 20th as part of Musictown Dublin 2024. She will…

  • Mercury Rev Announce Irish Dates

    May 13, 2024 - By 

    Mercury Rev will play a string of Irish dates in October. Marking their return after six years, the New York indie rock royalty – helmed by Jonathan Donahue and Grasshopper – will play Dolan’s Warehouse in Limerick on October 28th, Roisin Dubh in Galway on October 29th, Cyprus Avenue in Cork on October 30th and Dublin’s Button Factory on October 31st. Tickets for all shows go on sale this Thursday, May 16th at 10am. Revisit a classic Mercury Rev gem below.

  • Premiere: Hypnic Jerk – Spit It Out

    April 25, 2024 - By 

    Over the last few years, Philip Wallace has underscored his status as one of the island’s most idiosyncratic musical minds. From playing harmonica and percussion in Cashier No. 9, to his amp-blown mastery as one-half of Waldorf & Cannon, the Derry artist has always marched to the beat of his very own, genre-spanning drum. It’s a singular journey that continues with ‘Spit It Out,’ the multi-instrumentalist’s – and now one-man-band’s – first offering under his new Hypnic Jerk moniker. And what a blitzing return it is. Concisely summed up as “a song about getting things off your chest and not…

  • Landless Announce Second Album, Share ‘The Fisherman’s Wife’

    April 8, 2024 - By 

    Landless have announced details of their highly-anticipated second album. Six years on from their debut album Bleaching Bones – and us featuring them as ones to watch in our 18 for ’18 feature – the Dublin/Belfast quartet will release the ten-track Lúireach via Glitterbeat Records on 7th June. Teaming up once again with John ‘Spud’ Murphy, the Lily Power, Méabh Meir, Ruth Clinton and Sinéad Lynch have revealed that they haeve added sparingly-used instrumentation – including Lankum’s Cormac MacDiarmada on fiddle, viola and banjo throughout, as well as trombone from Alex Borwick on ‘The Newry Highwayman’ – on the album.…

  • The PVP Unveil First Single ‘Callan’ Ahead of Their Debut Album

    March 25, 2024 - By 

      Following our Inbound feature last year, Limerick supergroup The Personal Vanity Project have released their debut single ‘Callan’, with a video directed by Graham Patterson. Creating a blur of psychedelia-infused indie rock formed in 2021, the group comprises drummer/vocalist Brendan McInerney (Bleeding Heart Pigeons), keyboardist James Reidy (His Father’s Voice), and guitarist/vocalist Chris Quigley (Cruiser).  This release comes with the announcement of their eponymous debut album, set for release through Pizza Pizza Records on May 25. The single falls somewhere between My Bloody Valentine’s warbling sonic mastery, Duster’s expansive wistfulness and J Mascis’ fuzzed-out amp worship. The album was produced…

  • Stevie Nicks Set for Dublin Show in July

    March 18, 2024 - By 

    Truthfully, if they come more iconic than Stevie Nicks, we certainly haven’t heard of them. The legendary singer and Fleetwood Mac frontwoman has announced that she will play a solo show in Dublin this summer. The arena show at 3Arena on Wednesday, July 3 is part of Nicks’ ongoing Live in Concert tour, which will also include shows in Glasgow, Manchester and London, as well as Antwerp and Amsterdam. Marking Nicks’ first solo show in the capital, when she performed 3Arena’s previous form as the Point Theatre back in 1989, the July show will come five years after Fleetwood Mac…

  • Lankum Scoop 2023 Choice Music Prize

    March 8, 2024 - By 

    Lankum have just won this year’s RTÉ Choice Music Prize for False Lankum. As time has shown us, there is no such thing as a foregone conclusion at the annual awards but Lankum’s fourth full-length taking this year’s Best Album prize is unlikely to be a shock to many. Released via Rough Trade back in March last year, the John “Spud” Murphy-produced triumph firmly cemented the Dublin quartet’s status as a singular force in forward-leaping experimental folk. Among the plaudits the album has released over the last twelve months include a Mercury Prize nod, five stars from the Guardian and…

  • Bonnie “Prince” Billy Announces Irish Tour

    March 6, 2024 - By 

    Bonnie “Prince” Billy has announced a six-date Irish tour for August. The Louisville artist – aka Will Oldham – will play a string of relatively intimate shows in Clonakilty, Cork, Limerick and Galway, before two dates in Dublin at the National Concert Hall and Whelan’s respectively. Check out the full details via the rather lovely poster below. Presented by Foggy Notions, the shows will see Oldham supported by Nuala Kennedy and Eamon O’Leary. Tickets go on sale for all venues this Friday, March 8 at 10am.