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Soda Blonde
Irish artists pull out of SXSW in solidarity with Palestine and protest of festival military sponsorship

Update: See latest article here: All Irish bands have now cancelled their official SXSW performances.…

Kneecap
Watch Kneecap perform live on US TV on Jimmy Fallon’s show

The Belfast trio made their US TV debut on The Tonight Show presented by Jimmy…

Podcast
Podcast: Andrea & Niall’s favourite music of February

It’s the Nialler9 Podcast’s monthly episode where Niall and Andrea talk about the albums and…

Khruangbin
Khruangbin for 3Arena Dublin show

The Texas trio are playing a big Dublin gig. Khruangbin will play live at the…

The RTE Choice Music Prize – Irish Album of the Year 2023 Winner Lankum have just been announced as the winner of the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2023 for the album 'False Lankum' (Rough Trade). They received a cheque for €10,000 - a prize which has been provided by the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) and the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) - as well as a specially commissioned award. The jury panel of Irish music media professionals deliberated at length tonight and chose the album from the shortlist of 10 records released by Irish artists throughout 2023. The sold-out event in Vicar St, Dublin featured live performances by 8 of the album shortlisted acts. The event was hosted by 2FM’s Tracy Clifford and was broadcast live in a special broadcast on the station. TV highlights of the show can be seen on Thursday 14th March at 22.30 on RTÉ2 Information from Liza Geddes, Recode Publicity lizageddes@gmail.com No repro fee / photo: Graham Keogh http://www.choicemusicprize.ie http://2fm.rte.ie/ http://www.rte.ie/ http://twitter.com/choiceprize
Lankum win the Choice Music Prize – Irish album of the year

Lankum were the prevailing winners last night at RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of…

All Together Now announce 50 acts for the festival this summer: The National, Jorja Smith, Slowdive, Paul Kalkbrenner & more

All Together Now has announced 50 acts for the festival this year, taking place at…

All Together Now, Vicar Street, Dolan’s, Beyond The Pale win at the IMRO Awards last night

The IMRO Live Music Venue of the Year Awards took place in Dublin at The…

Dublin Vinyl
Ireland’s only vinyl pressing plant is to close

Ireland’s only pressing plant Dublin Vinyl is going into liquidation, RTE reports. The vinyl pressing…

Best of February
The 20 best songs of February

Featuring: Jessica Pratt, John Glacier, Kneecap, Adrianne Lenker, Beth Gibbons, R. Kitt, Yard Act, Fort Romeau, Thee U.F.O, Little Simz, Lime Garden, Kim Gordon, Schoolboy Q, Charli XCX, Idles, Mhaol.

Dublin Gig Guide
The best gigs in Dublin this week (March 5th – 11th)

Gig Guide highlights: Choice Music Prize, The Smile, Pixies, CasisDead, Seamus Fogarty, The Sultans of Ping, Cáit, Disrupt Disability Arts Festival, Dublin Modular: Spectrum, Anamoe Drive, Chequerboard, Partiboi69, Benjamin Damage, Morgana / Sorcha Richardson.

Fynch
Fynch on the places in Drimnagh that influenced his new album Youngfella

The Dublin 12 rapper Fynch released his debut album Youngfella on Burner Records this past week.

Strange Boy
Night for Palestine to take place in Limerick’s Record Room

The Record Room will host a special night for Palestine this week with proceeds raised…

Killer Mike
Killer Mike for Dublin gig

One half of Run The Jewels is coming to Dublin this summer for the Down…

New releases out today: Yard Act, Schoolboy Q, Faye Webster, Fynch, Squarepusher & more

The best new releases out this week.

David Holmes
Celtronic announces lineup for Easter in Derry

The long-running Derry electronic music festival has announces its first lineup. Taking place over Easter…

R.Kitt on his new release So True/Wash EP

Dublin electronic producer and DJ R.Kitt has put out his first release of 2024, a…

Lisa Hannigan @ ALS @itchyfeetcreative
Another Love Story announce first lineup for the 2024 festival

Another Love Story has announced its return to Killyon Manor for its 10th year edition.…

Best Folk Singer Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin (L), whose award was presented by Rhiannon Giddens (R)
Lankum and Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin among RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards winners in a night of prominent Palestinian solidarity

Lankum and Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin were among the big winners at last night’s RTÉ Radio…

The Go! Team
The Go! Team are playing a Thunder, Lightning, Strike 20th anniversary Dublin show

The Go! Team will play their 2004 debut album Thunder, Lightning, Strike in full at…

Sign Crushes Motorist: The Irish slowcore artist with over 4 million monthly listeners

The nature of our fractured music landscape these days means that we’re regularly hearing about…