• Watch: Gacys Threads – Salvation

    September 3, 2013 - By 

    Belfast progressive hardcore/metal quartet Gacys Threads have unveiled the video to their new single, ‘Salvation’. The track is taken from the band’s split 7″ with Swiss band Colossus Fall, available on clear yellow vinyl via Belfast imprint Savour Your Scene Records (founded by Gacy’s drummer Stephen Currie), French label Left Hand Records, Germany’s Incredible Noise Records and Black Lake Records, based in Scotland. Gacys Threads will launch the 7″ at Belfast’s Limelight 2 on September 7. Support on the night comes from Five Will Die, Lantern For A Gale and Tusks. Watch the video – featuring footage from the band performing…

  • Watch: Savages – I Am Here

    September 3, 2013 - By 

    Having delivered an expectedly blistering performance at the tenth Electric Picnic at the weekend, London all-female post-punk quartet Savages have unveiled their video for ‘I Am Here’. Directed by Joshua Zucker-Pluda, the video employs a technique initiated by composer Alcin Lucier: recording the band’s performance, playing the performance back and recording it again, over and over and over again. “There’s a real emotional intensity to Savages’ live presence,” said Zucker-Pluda about the video. “I was interested in the idea that the band’s performance could be so powerful that it would leave a kind of psychic scar or echo within the…

  • Watch: The Hot Sprockets – Comin’ On

    August 29, 2013 - By 

    One of the best visual accompaniments that we have seen from an Irish band in quite some time, Dublin band The Hot Sprockets have unveiled the wonderful video for their new single, ‘Comin’ On’. A huge effort involving a case of colourful extras, the video was shot in one take by Little Beast Films at the rather beautiful Hazel Hatch House. The single itself is set for official release on September 20. Watch the video below!

  • Watch: Jetplane Landing – My Radio Heart

    August 28, 2013 - By 

    Taken from their incredible new album Don’t Try, Derry quartet Jetplane Landing have released the video to their new single, ‘My Radio Heart’. According to a blurb written to accomany the video: “reflecting on the life-affirming nature of music and its power to change our lives; from Jerry Lee-Lewis to Ian McKaye; Jetplane loves artists that inform the world in which we live and kick all our asses. “My Radio Heart” is about a love for music that never dies.” The video itself – directed by Jack Wilkinson and edited by Michael Barwise – was shot over a two day…

  • Watch: The Bedroom – The Big Up

    August 28, 2013 - By 

    Galway native Olan Stephens AKA The Bedroom has unveiled the video to his new song, ‘The Big Up’. The latest audiovisual offering from the ex-Eatenbybears member The Bedroom produces, according to Stephens, “a distinct blend of experimental pop with an emphasis on bass and beat heavy hip-hop production.” Sounds about right to us. ‘The Big Up’ is Stephen’s second solo single, the wonderfully idiosyncratic video for which was directed/produced by the 21-year-old himself and filmed by Richard L Butler. Watch the video below.

  • Watch: Liza Flume – Swords

    August 26, 2013 - By 

    Directed by Sam Fitzpatrick, Dublin-based singer-songwriter Liza Flume has unveiled the suitably quaint video to her new single, ‘Swords’. The track – a delicately soulful, superbly unravelling five minute tale – is taken from Full Steam Ahead, Flume’s bewitching debut EP released via Toast Office Records in January. Watch the video for ‘Swords’ below.

  • Watch: Desert Hearts – Heavy Hangs The Head

    August 24, 2013 - By 

    Directed by Niall Savage, Belfast quartet Desert Hearts have unveiled the video to their forthcoming single ‘Heavy Hangs The Head’. Taken from the band’s 3rd album, Enturbulation = No Challenge, the track has been released with new b-side ‘Just To Say’. Set for release at the start of September, you can pre-order the single here. Watch the video below.

  • Watch: Kowalski – Let’s Start Over

    August 23, 2013 - By 

    Bangor indie-pop quartet Kowalski have unveiled the lyric video to their sun-kissed new single, ‘Let’s Start Over’. Despite three-quarters of the band no longer living in Northern Ireland, the video – directed by Ross McConaghy – was filmed on location of the band’s scenic hometown. The track itself is taking from the band’s recently-released full-length debut album For The Love of Letting Go. The band’s show as part of this year’s Open House festival is our Gig of the Week. Go here for more information. In the meantime, check out the video below.

  • Watch: VerseChorusVerse – Our Truth Could Be Their Lie (Live)

    August 22, 2013 - By 

    Taken from his forthcoming debut album, Tony Wright AKA VerseChorusVerse has unveiled a live, full-band video of his track ‘Our Truth Could Be Their Lie’. Filmed by Bandwith, the video was recorded live at Graham House Studios by Phil D’Alton and Walter Da Goon of alt-folk band Master & Dog. It is the first of four videos to be released from the session. Watch the video below.

  • Watch: No Age – An Impression

    August 19, 2013 - By 

    L.A. experimental punk two-piece No Age have unveiled a video for new track, ‘An Impression’. Taken from the band’s fourth studio album entitled An Object – released today in the UK and tomorrow in the US via Sub Pop – the video for the track the brief, decidedly abstract clip was directed by the duo, Randy Randall (guitar) and Dean Spunt (drums/vocals). Watch the video below.