• Video Premiere: Feather Beds – Fragile

    August 5, 2020 - By 

    Masterfully blurring the lines between dream-pop, shoegaze, electronica, ambient, and experimentalism, London-based Dublin artist Michael Orange aka Feather Beds is easily one of the island’s most idiosyncratic musical minds. Premiered this morning on Mary Anne Hobbs’ BBC 6 Music show, his new single ‘Fragile’ is a first-rate first taste for newcomers. Doubling up as the lead single from his forthcoming EP, Fragile/Temper, it marries carefully-crafted soundscapes with a rush of 8bit blips to create something that, despite nodding to the likes of Ariel Pink and The Cure, is unmistakably his. Just as inviting is Orange’s homespun visuals for the single, which you can…

  • VerseChorusVerse Releases Audiobook

    August 4, 2020 - By 

    One of the finest Irish music memoirs in recent memory is now available as an audiobook. Narrated by the author, North Coast singer-songwriter – and jack of all trades, master of many – Tony Wright aka VerseChorusVerse, Chapter & Verse(ChorusVerse) is a richly compelling account from one of the island’s most engaging musical minds. Originally published back in 2018, the audiobook version of Wright’s acclaimed first book is now available to purchase via Audible. ICYMI, stream the latest VerseChorusVerse single, ‘Free to Decree’. free to decree by VerseChorusVerse

  • More Names Set For Stendhal Unlocked

    August 4, 2020 - By 

    Several more names have been added to the bill for the forthcoming first installment of Stendhal Unlocked. Primed to be Northern Ireland’s first socially-distanced festival, subject to guidance on mass gatherings in August, the Limavady festival looks set to return to Ballymully Cottage as a socially-distanced affair. Doubling up as the first installment of a three-part series from the north’s best annual festival, weekend one takes place across August 21-22. Joining the likes of the already announced And So I Watch You From Afar, Ryan McMullan, Kíla, Ciaran Lavery, Roe, Amy Montgomery and Joshua Burnside are Rebekah Fitch (pictured), Gemma Bradley, David Keenan and others…

  • Junior Brother and Kneecap Set For Live From Guerrilla Studios

    July 31, 2020 - By 

    The next line-up for Live From Guerrilla Studios has just been announced – and it’s a biggie. Following some breathtaking performances from the likes of Maija Sofia and The Bonk, episode three of the Dublin live-stream series on Thursday, August 6th will feature sets by Junior Brother and Belfast Hip-Hop trio Kneecap. Presented, as ever, by Ray Wingnut – and featuring Moojoo the Merch Monkey and resident DJ Djackulate, episode three will also feature specially commissioned videos by Silverbacks and Rising Damp. Things kick off, direct from the Live From Guerrilla Studios YouTube page, from 10pm.

  • Premiere: Dutch Schultz – Start Me

    July 30, 2020 - By 

    In March 2016, we hosted a show that would double up as the last we’d heard from Belfast alt-rock quartet Dutch Schultz in over four years. Blessedly, out of the blue, last month came a signal. Via trouncing new single, ‘Brutus’, the Willy Mundell-fronted foursome were back just when we needed them the most. Ahead of release tomorrow, we’re pleased to present the first look and listen to its follow-up, ‘Start Me’. The second single to be taken from the band’s forthcoming, Russ Russell-produced album, Friends Like Brutus, it’s a typically earworming effort tackling, in their worlds, “consumerism amid the pressures of…

  • Premiere: nimf – Cloudy Dreams

    July 30, 2020 - By 

    Hailing from Arklow in Co. Wicklow, the self-proclaimed “sugar-pop” performance of Aoibhin Redmond aka nimf filters vocals and theremin via a prismatic, deftly-produced sensibility. Having shined, live, at Whelan’s Ones To Watch, as well as the likes of Arcadian Field Festival, The Button Factory and BIMM Midnight Hour in Whelans, her craft is an open invitation to escape everyday waking life and to yield to the more phantasmal side of one’s mind. With nods to artists including Yaeji, Kero Kero Bonito, and CHAI, her sound feels just as comparable to the likes of Tune-Yards and Micachu & The Shapes. It’s…

  • Video Premiere: Shrug Life – Last Gasp Of Summer

    July 24, 2020 - By 

    A timely arrival to cushion the blow of a festival-free summer, perennial TTA favourites Shrug Life are back with the video for new single ‘Last Gasp of Summer’. The track is taken from Shrug Life’s excellent, Daniel Fox-produced second LP Maybe You’re The Punchline which came out in April, available on 12″ vinyl through Bandcamp. Typical of their vision of a DEVO-meets-Thin Lizzy world, it’s a razor-sharp incision into minutia of the make some noise Irish experience, and festival fatigue that starts to set in as one’s twenties edges closer to the finishing line, without ever straying into ‘yells at cloud’ territory. Filmed partly at Arcadian Field Festival 2019, and featuring…

  • Video Premiere: Proper Micro NV – So Much To Give & Live For

    July 21, 2020 - By 

    Back in May, Limerick experimental electronic artist Rory Hall aka Proper Micro NV delivered hands down one of his strongest efforts to date. Taken from his forthcoming new album – a released in which Hall says he has set to  “push the boundaries a little bit” – ‘So Much To Give & Live For’ was warped and propulsive in all the right places. Today, we’re pleased to present a first look at the track’s accompanying seven-minute-long video. Speaking about the video, Hall said, “When considering the visual aspect of this new collection of tracks, I definitely wanted to go a little bit…

  • Maija Sofia and Myles Manley Set For Live From Guerrilla Studios

    July 20, 2020 - By 

    Following a stellar first episode in the company of The Bonk and John Francis Flynn earlier this month, Live From Guerrilla Studios have announced its line-up for its forthcoming second installment. As well as resident DJ Djackulate, host Ray Wingnut and merch monkey Moojoo, long-time TTA favourites Maija Sofia and Myles Manley will perform live on Thursday, July 23rd. We’re also reliably informed that Post Punk Podge will also make some form of an apperance. Things kick off at 10pm. Subscribe to the Live from Guerrilla Studios YouTube channel here.

  • Video Premiere: Shifting – The Bland Leading the Bland

    July 21, 2020 - By 

    A month ahead of the release of what will surely be one of Ireland’s essential punk records of 2020, Shifting have just shared with us the video for ‘The Bland Leading the Bland’. An ideal introduction to the trio, who formed in 2016, and include members of No Spill Blood & Hands Up Who Wants To Die, amongst other noisemakers par excellence. The video a sub-ninety second microcosm of their repetitious, yet spontaneous dissonance, and squalid, darkly comic worldview, conjuring everything  from Unwound to Death Grips. The second in a series of videos to accompany their debut LP, it chronicles the time Matt ‘Uncle Dad’ Hedigan…