• Monday Mixtape: VARO

    February 10, 2025 - By 

    Ahead of the release of The World That I Knew – their highly anticipated new album featuring members of Lankum, John Francis Flynn, Junior Brother, Lemoncello and more – Dublin-based trad duo Lucie Azconaga and Consuelo Nerea Breschi, aka VARO, share the songs that have shaped them. From the hypnotic Les Filles de Illighadad to the rich textures of Lá Lugh and the old-time swagger of C.W. Stoneking, they explore the music that moves them. The World That I Knew is out on 9th May. Pre-order it here. The World that I knew – pre order – out on May…

  • Monday Mixtape: Seán Mulrooney

    February 3, 2025 - By 

    In a special Imbolg edition of Monday Mixtape, featuring his reflections on tracks by the likes of Sinéad O’Connor, Domhan, Alice Coltrane, Mariee Sioux and more, Dublin psych-folk master Seán Mulrooney marks the festival’s cosmic turning point. Speaking about his selection, Mulrooney said: “As Monday marks the cosmological alignment of Imbolg, and we are in the time of Bríd, the Goddess of poetry, art, fire, and water, I thought I would dedicate it to some of my favourite female artists.” Mulrooney’s highly-anticipated debut solo album This Is My Prayer is set for release on Friday 14th February 2025. Domhan –…

  • Monday Mixtape: Skinner

    January 20, 2025 - By 

    Aaron Corcoran, aka Skinner, kicks off the first Monday Mixtape of the year with favourites from The Fall, Problem Patterns, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Leonard Cohen, Beat Happening and beyond. Beat Happening – Bad Seeds One of the best bands of all time Beat Happening still encourage me not to take music too seriously and just have fun. Everything to do with K records is really carefree and what the true essence of music is all about. Calvin Johnson’s baritone vocals and the stark space created between the drums and surf guitar with no bass is so striking. This song always…

  • Monday Mixtape: Pippa Molony

    November 18, 2024 - By 

    Following the release of her stellar debut EP, Hungry Ghost, Dublin artist Pippa Molony takes us on a guided tour of some of her all-time favourite songs, featuring Operating Theatre, Jenny Hval, Kelly Moran, Björk and more Björk – Unison ‘Unison,’ from Björk’s Vespertine, is a song I somehow missed until recently. I’d listened to the album before, saved Frosti to all of my playlists, but Unison slipped past me. I finally heard it for the first time during Benji Reid’s Find Your Eyes at Dublin Theatre Festival—and it hit me like a truck. This track closes Vespertine. It begins…

  • Monday Mixtape: PostLast

    November 4, 2024 - By 

    Off the back of the release of their stellar Pull Me Into the Open Sea EP, dream pop duo PostLast select some of their all-time favourite tracks – featuring Mariah, Radiohead, Men I Trust, Blonde Redhead and more. Stephen McHale: Radiohead – Weird Fishes It’s hard to pick just one song from Radiohead but I always find myself coming back to this one. There are so many things to love about it lyrically and musically, but in terms of an influence on my writing I’ve definitely been inspired by all the layered, cyclical guitar patterns that build the tension as…

  • Monday Mixtape: AM Shanley

    October 13, 2024 - By 

    Ahead of the release of his sublime new single ‘You Really Have Me’ this Friday, 18th October, Lisburn artist AM Shanley waxes lyrical about some of his all-time favourite songs, featuring Sparklehorse, Cat Power, Quasi, Guided By Voices and more PJ Harvey – Who The Fuck (Demo) Twenty years ago this year, PJ Harvey released Uh Huh Her and my fourteen-year-old self skived school to buy it – and my world was changed. I adore everything about this song, the delivery is so playful and feral and fun. Her sludgy Drop C guitars throughout that album are just wonderful and…

  • Monday Mixtape: The Low Field

    September 30, 2024 - By 

    Ahead of the release of their self-tilted debut album on 18th October, Diarmuid Ó Sé of Limerick-based quartet and certified Good Lads The Low Field talks us through some of his all-time favourite songs, featuring Low, The Hotelier, Junior Brother and more. Pre-order The Low Field and catch the band live over the next while: October 17th: Anseo, Dublin November 1st: Pharmacia, Limerick The Low Field by The Low Field Sinai Vessel – Where Did You Go? The Low Field first got together as a direct result of myself, Danny, and Brendan becoming infatuated with this album in the winter…

  • Monday Mixtape: Adore

    September 23, 2024 - By 

    Lara Minchin and Lachlann Ó Fionnáin of fast-rising Irish garage-punk outfit Adore share their all-time favourite tracks, spanning from Wire, Paul Brady and Gilla Band to Brian Eno, The Breeders, and Dutch glam-rock mystery Pantherman With support from Shark School, Adore headline Whelan’s in Dublin on Saturday, 2nd November. Go here for tickets Lachlann Ó Fionnáin: Gilla Band – Why’d They Hide the Bodies Under My Garage? When I was 16, I saw Gilla Bnd for the first time on the 2nd of their two nights in Vicar Street in 2019. I kinda did it to challenge myself as I…

  • Monday Mixtape: Susi Pagel

    September 9, 2024 - By 

    Off the back of her new single ‘S.T.R.E.S.S.E.D,’ Belfast alt-pop powerhouse Susi Pagel waxes lyrical about some of her all-time favourite songs, featuring Radiohead, Pale Waves and more Jazmin Bean – Favourite Toy The Traumatic Livelihood album became one of my favourites of all time so quickly. I knew it would be amazing, I added the whole thing to my playlist before I’d even listened- but this song really stood out to me and is one of my most listened to songs despite only coming out last year. What draws me to Jazmin’s music, especially this track, is the way…

  • Monday Mixtape: And So I Watch You From Afar

    September 2, 2024 - By 

    In this installment of Monday Mixtape, Ewen Friers of North Coast post-rock heroes And So I Watch You From Afar takes us on a guided tour of the music that soundtracked the band’s recent U.S.—from Peach and Blue Whale, to Real Terms and Junk Drawer. I thought that seeing as I’ve spent the summer travelling in support of ‘Megafauna’, a nice framing device for my mixtape might be basing it around some of the bands and artists I’ve encountered along the way, some new, some well established, some I’ve been a fan of for years, some I’ve just discovered! Whilst…