• RTÉ Choice Music Prize 2024 Shortlist Revealed

    January 6, 2025 - By 

    The shortlist for this year’s RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2024, in association with IMRO & IRMA, has just been announced. Following yet another phenomenal year for Irish music, the list of nominees is as follows: A Lazarus Soul – No Flowers Grow In Cement Gardens Curtisy – What Was The Question Fontaines D.C. – Romance  Orla Gartland – Everybody Needs a Hero KNEECAP – Fine Art NewDad – MADRA Niamh Regan – Come As You Are  Róis – Mo Léan Silverbacks – Easy Being a Winner SPRINTS – Letter To Self Further information and shortlists…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 26th January

    January 26, 2024 - By 

    It’s an absolutely stacked week for new Irish music, with releases including the long-awaited debut album from NewDad, MELTS, Alpha Chrome Yayo, PANIKATAX, Thom Southern and more NewDad – Madra MELTS – Figment PANIKATAX – Rejection Alpha Chrome Yayo – Last Repose of a Lonely Florist/Taro’s Box (300 Years) Home for Hitodama by Alpha Chrome Yayo Thom Southern – Hey What’s Happenin’? Wynona Bleach – Swim In the Bay Neil Brogan – Line Check Anamoe Drive – The Finder’s Keeper Lilla Vargen – Belong JyellowL – Judas Niamh Bury – Budapest

  • NewDad – Banshee

    March 8, 2022 - By 

    Young Galway quartet NewDad hit the ground running with the release of their debut EP Waves in early 2021. Its fresh take on hypnotic dream pop and shoegaze sounds captured the hearts and minds of listeners and critics alike. On their follow-up, Banshee, NewDad have kept that momentum going, accelerating toward a dazzling future. Recorded in Belfast and mixed by John Cogleton (Lana Del Rey, Phoebe Bridgers), Banshee sees NewDad dig deeper into their sound, resurfacing with a handful of tracks that see them at their most daring, intense and captivating. Opener ‘Say It’, arguably the band’s most radio-friendly track…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – February 11th

    February 11, 2022 - By 

    It’s been another great week for new releases in every corner of the island. Delve into the best of the lot, featuring NewDad, Junior Brother, Pillow Queens, Frank and Beans, Axis Of, Melts and more. NewDad – Banshee Pillow Queens – Hearts & Minds Junior Brother – No Country For Young Men Frank and Beans – Slán Axis Of – Beach Light Melts – Outlier Qwerty Mick – Google Your Symptoms Pauline Scanlon – The Bird In The Bush Cat Dowling – All That I Can Do

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – January 14th

    January 14, 2022 - By 

    As anticipated, 2022 has gotten off to an incredibly strong start on the new Irish music front. Here’s the best of the lot, featuring, Silverbacks, CMAT, Whozyerman?, Pixie Cut Rhythm Orchestra, NewDad and more. Silverbacks – A Job Worth Something CMAT – Lonely Pixie Cut Rhythm Orchestra – Empty Envelope Whozyerman? – The Year (….) NewDad – Say It And So I Watch You From Afar – Ill Lung Robyn G Shiels – Constant Reminder constant reminder : demo by robyn g shiels No Monster Club – Save The Circus banríon – end times end times by banríon Fontaines D.C.…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 29th October

    October 29, 2021 - By 

    Good songs. Great songs. Almost certainly the very best of them released in the last week, including CMAT, Fixity, Denise Chaila, Erica Cody, Laurie Shaw, Malaki & Tolü Makay, M(h)aol, MuRli feat. Gemma Dunleavy, Roe & Ciaran Lavery and more. Denise Chaila feat. Murli – Energy Fixity – Fixity 7 FIXITY 7 by Fixity NewDad – Ladybird MuRli feat. Gemma Dunleavy – Odyssey M(h)aol – No One Ever Talks To Us Eoin Dolan – Mirror Liver Mirror Liver LP by Eoin Dolan CMAT – No More Virgos Erica Cody – Love & Light EP Various Artists – TENEMENTS TENEMENTS – Various…