Dig into the very best new releases of the week, featuring Adore, Nerves, Mischa and the Bear, Conn Thornton, Foreign Mornings and more. Adore – Sweet Keith Nerves – Don’t Let Go Mischa and The Bear – Even Unto The Next World Conn Thornton – Heaven, I’m In Heaven When Bethesda Lands They'll Throw Us a Parade by Conn Thornton Foreign Mornings – Gone Now Nice Celine – OKAY DUG – Have At It For Those I Love – The Ox / The Afters
Sunday at All Together Now featuring live performances from Bob Vylan, Primal Scream, Nelly Furtado, Nilufer Yanya, Reggie Watts, Villagers, English Teacher, Maria Somerville, Adore, Curtisy, Shark School and more. Photos by Erin Plaice and Seán Kelly
On Thursday, 25th September, the Cathedral Quarter becomes the nerve centre of Irish music once again as Output Belfast returns with its most expansive programme to date. Ireland’s largest one-day music conference and showcase, the annual event brings together a heavyweight lineup of artists, activists, producers, policymakers and disruptors, all under one civic banner: future-proofing music. As the business continues to shapeshift at the pace of AI and cultural fatigue, Output is set to cut through the noise with the insights and provocations needed to meet the moment. The Opening Keynote sets the tone: PRS for Music Chair Crispin Hunt,…
Andy Bell (Erasure) live at Vicar Street in Dublin with support from Tristan Rene. Photos by Ian Davies
This Saturday, 9th August, Belfast gathers to honour a singular presence in underground music, JD Twitch, aka Keith McIvor, with LOVE 2 JD TWITCH, a one-night-only celebration taking place across Lavery’s, Woodworkers and the Front Terrace. Keith isn’t just a beloved figure in electronic music. He is one of the scene’s true architects. As half of Optimo (Espacio), he carved out a fearless legacy by blending genres long before it was algorithmically encouraged. A political soul in a dancefloor vessel, JD Twitch used every tool available – vinyl, volume, vision and beyond – to show us that clubs could be…
This week’s round-up is a trove of only the best new sounds, featuring the feature-length return of space rock magi Wild Rocket, the urgent ‘A Mother’s Heart for Palestine’ by Mothers Against Genocide (feat. Mary Black, Róisín El Cherif and more), and essential new cuts from Adamh, Garrett Laurie, Niall McDowell, Hurling, Mother of Pearl and more. Also in the mix: the incredible Ambient Harvest, the sixth compilation from Department of Energy – a sprawling ode to Ireland’s high summer, sun gods, scythes, and all. Wild Rocket – Rocket Sweat Lodge Rocket Sweat Lodge by WILD ROCKET Mothers Against Genocide…
Released last Friday, The Sky Was a Mouth Again marks the second installment in Diet Of Worms’ ongoing exploration of ‘Louie Louie’ as a vessel for dissent. A year after Hunger Is Violence, the Dublin cassette label and publisher returns with a deeper, more unruly dive, gathering artists like Richard Dawson, Charles Hayward of This Heat, Iceage’s Elias Rønnenfelt, Junior Brother, and Valentina Magaletti to tear the song apart & reassemble it in solidarity with Palestine. Below, Gavin Duffy unpacks the intent and atmosphere behind the project. The Sky Was A Mouth Again by Various Artists Few songs have endured,…
Sounds from a Safe Harbour has always operated with a different frequency, tuning in to depth, community and the unexpected. Two months on from dropping this year’s line-up – featuring the likes of Jon Hopkins & S. Carey, Efterklang, Beth Orton, Lisa Hannigan, Villagers, and Rhiannon Giddens – organisers have now revealed its equally impressive film programme. Expanding the festival’s signature emphasis on ritual and resonance,, this year’s strand blends music documentaries, premieres and artist Q&As into a cinematic programme as carefully assembled as the live schedule itself. Taking over The Arc Cinema, Triskel Christchurch and Cork Opera House, the…
Fate has forced our hand: we’re declaring today Irish Music Christmas. Unwrap brand new music from The Mary Wallopers, Junior Brother, pôt-pot, God Knows, Mícheál Keating, CMAT, SexyTadhg, For Those I Love, OG Cunt & The 1240 and much more – including The Sky Was a Mouth Again, the absolutely essential new compilation from Diet of Worms. Following 2024’s Hunger Is Violence, Irish imprint Diet of Worms returns with The Sky Was a Mouth Again, a feral, genre-leaping collection of radical reworks of Richard Berry’s 1955 classic ‘Louie Louie’. Featuring experimental artists from Ireland and beyond, this compilation spans drone,…
Following April’s scene-setting lead single ‘Beatha,’ ‘In the Beat’ marks the second transmission from Still a Day, the upcoming fourth studio album from Kildare-born, Dublin-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Eithne Ní Chatháin, aka Inni-K. Set for release this Autumn via Green Willow Records, it’s a record already shaping up to be her most creatively expansive and emotionally attuned work to date. If ‘Beatha’ offered a sublime glimpse into that journey, In the Beat is a deepening; a rare-as-hen’s-teeth kind of deliverance consigned to song. Softly incandescent and sorcerously assured, In the Beat finds Ní Chatháin at her most nuanced and…