• Track Record: Jinx Lennon

    May 25, 2023 - By 

    In this installment of Track Record, Dundalk’s very own Jinx Lennon selects the records that have left a lasting impact on his life, from Television to Frank Sinatra. Photos by Sean McMahon Lou Reed – Street Hassle I’ve been trying to get my head around Lou Reed because so many of the bands I was into dropped his name. I bought Transformer and Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal – I hated them! I found pure gold with this one. Lou’s lyrics can be touching and ugly and the characters in the song ‘Street Hassle’ have a certain sensitivity that only Lou…

  • Video Premiere: Bróna Keogh – Sea Witch

    September 26, 2018 - By 

    After a busy year of writing and performing, supporting the likes of David Kitt, I Draw Slow & Wyvern Lingo, singer-songwriter Bróna Keogh’s new single ‘Sea Witch’ has arrived. With a vibrant video by Ed Cleary that accentuates the organic quality of her writing, Keogh melds folk with the hopeful wist of 60s pop, measured in its use of diverse acoustic instrumentation and harmony. It was recorded by Michael Hogerzeil & mastered by Eoin Whitfiled. As with the many Irish music festivals she’ll win hearts and weary minds at, ‘Sea Witch’ possesses the ability to restore basic human functions and feelings…

  • Stream: SBTRKT – New Dorp, New York

    July 23, 2014 - By 

    London’s favourite masked DJ Aaron Jerome, aka SBTRKT has unveiled an eccentric new track, featuring Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, called ‘New Dorp, New York’. The debut track from the producer’s much anticipated sophomore album Wonder Where We Land follows 2011’s much-lauded SBTRKT, an album that brought artists such as Sampha and Jessie Ware much-deserved exposure, as well as refining his tense, minimal post-dubstep into something that has been emulated ever since. This new track is even more bubbly and noisy than ever, with Ezra Koenig’s rambling lyricism adding a modest pop flavour to the song. Listen to ‘New Dorp, New York’ below. The new album…