Set to return to Dublin’s Marlay Park across July 14-16, the bill for this year’s Longitude is yet another mix of hip-hop, pop and indie. Headlined by Stormzy, The Weeknd (pictured) and Mumford and Sons, the focus is on some big names, divvied by some more under-the-radar acts and some homegrown sounds. Ahead of this year’s outing, here’s our annual festival mixtape, featuring Tom Misch, JP Cooper, Milky Chance and more. Go here to buy tickets to Longitude 2017.
Returning to Belfast’s T13 for its third incarnation across June 2-3, AVA is the country’s most exciting annual electronic showcase. Ahead of what’s set to be another stellar two days in the company of the likes of Jeff Mills & Guillaume Marmin, Marcel Dettman, Bicep, Fatima Yamaha, Ben UFO, Job Jobse, Rebekah, Denis Sulta, OR:LA and many more, we have compiled a 15 track playlist featuring some our must-see acts. Still to nab your ticket? Get on it here.
We say it pretty much every year but the line-up for this year’s Body & Soul is a thing of beauty. Returning to Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath across June 23-25, the festival will host everyone from Sleaford Mods, Austra and Metronomy to Mykki Blanco, Songhoy Blues and The Moonlandingz. With organisers opting, as ever, for sheer quality over any notion of genre-specific necessity, we’re looking forward to joining the thousands who’ll descend upon Ballinlough Castle this Summer Solstice Weekend. But first? Here’s our annual Body & Soul Festival Mixtape, featuring twenty acts we won’t be missing for anything.
Set to bring the veritable cream of the sonic crop to Dublin’s RDS this weekend, Metropolis is undoubtedly one of those festivals worthy of being doubly filed under “must-attend”. Ahead of the three-night blitz of sight and sound, stream our twenty-track Metropolis Festival Mixtape, featuring DJ Shadow, Moderat, Girl Band, Jessy Lanza, BADBADNOTGOOD (pictured), The Sugar Hill Gang, Novelist, Shura, Crystal Castles and the mighty Grace Jones, below.
Voted Ireland’s Best Small Festival for the last three years in a row, Stendhal Festival of Art returns to Ballymully Cottage Farm in Limavady on the weekend of August 12-13 with their strongest and most varied bill to date. Featuring the likes of alt-rock titans Therapy?, Lynched, Badly Drawn Boy, Derry’s Ryan Vail, Jealous of the Birds, PORTS and alt-folk five-piece Emerald Armada, the team have once more struck an impressive balance between weight and restraint over the line-up’s two days and nights. With tickets still available to buy for a mere £40 here, check out the full line-up and stream our fifteen-track track playlist, featuring our must-see…
Ahead of its highly-anticipated return to Blessington Lakes in Wicklow this weekend, we’ve compiled a Spotify playlist featuring twenty artists we highly recommend checking out at this year’s Knockanstockan. Celebrating their 10th outing – a huge accomplishment by any stretch of the imagination – here’s our recent interview with Bettine McMahon and Graham Sharpe from the fiercely independent, homegrown Irish festival right here. And here’s Holly Pereira’s rather pretty Knockanstockan 2016 Festival Map.
Set to return to Dublin’s Marlay Park this weekend, the three-day line-up for this year’s Longitude is easily one of the strongest of the Irish summer festival calendar. Headlined by Kendrick Lamar, Major Lazer and The National – as well as featuring the likes of Jamie xx, Father John Misty (pictured), Run The Jewels, Laura Mvula, Courtney Barnett, Vic Mensa and Kurt Vile & The Violators – organisers have struck a keen balance with both genre and the ratio between homegrown artists and much bigger acts. Ahead of what’s set to be yet another memorable weekend for the MCD-run festival, stream our 30…
Set to return to Charleville Castle in Tullamore in Co. Offaly this weekend, the line-up for this year’s Castlepalooza is a perfectly balanced affair boasting everyone from Caribou, Villagers and Jurassic 5 to Cat Power, Field Music and Cian Nugent. Easily their strongest bill to date, this year’s genre-spanning schedule also features the some of the country’s very best homegrown acts including The Altered Hours, I Am The Cosmos and New Jackson. Got your ticket? Stream our twenty-five track Festival Mixtape below.
Following their debut in October last year, Dublin city festival Interlude returns to the RHA Gallery this weekend for three days and nights of first-rate, decidedly eclectic global and homegrown sounds. With art and film also more than accounted for, Grandmaster Flash, Lisa Hannigan, Ships, Exmagician and Booka Brass Band are just some of the names that make up this year’s bill. Ahead of what’s set to be a memorable second outing, stream our twenty-track Interlude Festival Mixtape via Spotify right below.
Other Voices‘ December residency in Dingle has well and truly confirmed itself to be an Irish music institution over the last few years, bringing together some of the country’s finest artists with the very best, genre-spanning international acts. Returning to the scenic Kerry town across December 4-6, this year’s line-up – from the likes of Richard Hawley, OTHERKIN, Low to the ever magnificent (and totally free) Music Trail – is a perfectly balanced proposition to behold. With just over a week to this year’s outing, we’ve compiled a selection of tracks from acts playing this year’s Other Voices in a handy little Spotify playlist.