With an appearance at this weekend’s Forbidden Fruit coming up and an 18 date Irish tour in progress, Jeremy Hickey has decided that now is a good time to break the recorded silence he’s ...
You should have heard the “mirrorball ecstasy” 180 of Not Squares’ new song ‘Fall Far’ in the last month and the band’s new video isn’t far off that line wit...
Highlights: Forbidden Fruit, Friendly Fires DJ set afterparty, The Men, Tera Melos, Sleep Thieves EP launch, Si Schroeder, Eomac, Forza Italo, Planningtorock.This is the weekly list of recommended gi...
Ten months ago Si Schroeder re-appeared after a long five-year hiatus with ‘Jump Ship’. Then he disappeared again. But now he’s back (“life in all its facets did a very good j...
Dublin/Vancouver duo Deadbots follow up their recent Heartbreaker EP with a sunshine electro rework of ‘Love Is The Answer’ one of their favourite musicians, England Dan & John Ford ...
Epic brooding horns FTW. The National’s mournful ‘The Rains of Castamere’ appears on the Game Of Thrones season two soundtrack. The song appears as the credits roll in Episode 9 whi...
If you’re looking at that lineup above and feeling sorry for yourself that you can’t go, well I may be able to help. Thanks to Forbidden Fruit’s sponsor Bulmers, I have two weekend ...
If you’re looking to make a road trip next weekend, Pigstock is one destination you might consider. What started as a birthday party in 2008 with 200 people has grown to a 1500 person festival ...
Every Friday, I pick out four new music picks from the best of the music blogosphere as part of my Day & Night digital section. Follow Day & Night on Twitter or Facebook. The magazine is out ...
This track first appeared last summer on Onra’s Soundcloud page as a demo. Since then, the French producer released his Vietnamese sampling-album Chinoiseries Pt. 2 on All City and dropped the ...
Great piece by Joseph Morpurgo on his favourite moments of Boards Of Canada’s discography. Lots of great stuff to delve into and rediscover. It’s been ages since I heard the lesser-known ...
!Kaboogie are indeed hitting Cork City this Saturday in the Triskel Theatre for a night of “skank n bop action.” Always ones to bring a party in Dublin, the Cork gig will see Richie !Kabo...
Funeral Suits‘ long-awaited Stephen Street-produced debut album Lily of the Valley gets set into the world on June 1st and it’ll be streamed exclusively via State next week. ‘All Yo...
Loving this future R&B cut from Javeon McCarthy with production from Two Inch Punch. The Bristol singer has some quality material on his Soundcloud, some of it is below and ‘Precious’...
Tom Krell aka How To Dress Well will release his second album Total Loss on the Weird World label in Autumn. It follows his orchestra-assisted memorial Just Once EP from last year. ‘Ocean Floor...
A beautifully made video by ADAM for TEED for half the instrumental song ‘American Dream Part II’ which features on Trouble, Orlando Higginbottom’s (yes, still his real name) debut ...
It’s been 8 month’s since Cork’s Hush War Cry first impressed me with ‘Lily’. Their new wave Wild Beasts-indebted sound was so fully-formed it was hard not to get excite...
The best of new album streams this week in A-Z form. See recent album streams in the category page.Alt-J – An Awesome WaveCold Specks - I Predict A Graceful Expulsion Edward Sharpe & The Ma...
Highlights: Alt-J, I Am The Cosmos / Ships split launch, White Collar Boy’s launch, Trinity Orchestra perform Radiohead, Walls, Paul Kalkbrenner, Africa Day and Life Festival.This is the weekly...
Marcus Lambkin aka Shit Robot follows up his From The Cradle To The Rave album with a series of releases under the banner The Green Machine. First up is the 12” ‘Teenage Bass’ / ‘Sp...
Bypassing normal channels of distribution, Yeasayer perhaps knew their new material would inevitably end up online so they posted physical copies of their new song ‘Henrietta’ to 200 mail...
Dublin duo White Collar Boy have been making themselves a key part of Dublin’s live scene with a multitude of support slots and a biweekly club night in The Pygmalion where they host some of th...
Nicolas Jaar kicks off his two hour mix with a snippet of audio from Angelo Badalamenti about working on the Twin Peaks soundtrack. That eerie creepiness that pervades the show works its way in the m...
El-P’s new album Cancer For Cure is streaming on Rolling Stone. but watch this first…
Your Monday morning wakeup. This video is so late night ’90s MTV2. I love it. Imagine seeing this without any context. The Death Grips new album The Money Store is still streaming below…
It’s always a pleasure to hear a band move to the next level of their artistry. Sleep Thieves’ newest EP Islands is a big step up for the band in my estimation. The electro-pop of debut a...
Tara Masterson HallyFolk songs surrounded by a gossamer of ethereal icy reverb is an aesthetic that Irish musicians like Katie Kim have been using to great effect. Dubliner Tara Masterson Hally is th...
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Last year, Cian Nugent came to a lot of people’s attention with his full-length album Doubles. With just two songs at 45 minutes long, the album was no hop skip and jump easy release. It was an...
I chose this song as my alarm clock this morning and here we are, a brand new video to the song. Taken from Nicolas Jaar’s rather excellent collaboration with Dave Harrington as Darkside, Ryan ...
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