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Open Ear announce second round of artists for the island festival

The avant-electronic and experimental music festival Open Ear has announced more acts. Having announced round…

Bicep for Live At The Marquee Cork show

Bicep will play an outdoor show in Cork this summer. The Belfast dance duo bring…

Pillow Queens. Photo credit: Martyna Bannister
Pillow Queens announce third album Name Your Sorrow

Pillow Queens’ third album is out April 19th 2024. The album title Name Your Sorrow…

Margo Price. Dublin Gig Guide
The best Dublin gigs this week (January 23rd to 29th)

Gig guide highlights: Tradfest, Margo Price, Pangaea, Fleetmac Wood, Kiefer, The Next Big Thing ’24, Gash Collective, Bella Festa with Jennifer Cardini, Alexis Taylor (DJ Set), Brigid Mae Power, Strange Boy, Farah Elle, Dreamer, Sive, Ispíní Na hEireann, Deadlians, Wearegriot, Niwel Tsumbu, Laura Sheeran, Dublin Songwriting Circle, James J. Clarke.

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English Teacher for Dublin & Belfast shows

Leeds indie band English Teacher are one of my favourite new bands of the last year or…

AVA Festival celebrates 10 years with Bicep, Flowdan, Nia Archives, Barry Can’t Swim and more

Belfast electronic festival AVA is celebrating 10 years with a bumper lineup. AVA returns to…

Tradfest - picture of concert in The Grand Social.
Tradfest: 5 shows to catch at the Dublin festival this week

With the recent resurgence in traditional Irish music, Tradfest is well placed to shine a…

Photo of the band Idles
10 new songs to love this week

Featuring IDLES, Marika Hackman, Villagers, Khruangbin, Joy Orbison, Chelsea Wolfe, English Teacher, Anwar Highsign, Arckatron, Travis, Elzzz, Jayson Green & The Jerk.

The Strokes – This Is It but it’s only bass and drums

Reddit and guitarist cat nip. The Strokes classic album This Is It but without the…

Kneecap at Sundance. Photo from TG4.
Kneecap at Sundance: the critic reaction to the Irish language rap film

Kneecap’s debut feature film was shown at Sundance Film Festival last night, becoming the first Irish-language film to feature on the festival programme.

New albums out today - list. Sleator Kinney
New albums out today: Sleater-Kinney, Conchúr White & more

The best new releases out this week.

New Burial release Dreamfear / Boy Sent From Above announced on XL

Confirmed. Burial is releasing a new 12″ release on February 9th on XL Recordings. The…

Fears announces new album Affinity

A second album is released from Fears on March 22nd on TULLE. London-based Dublin artist…

Villagers. Photo: Andrew Whitton.
Villagers announce new album That Golden Time; hear the title track

Conor O’Brien has announced the sixth Villagers album That Golden Time is out on May…

Galway club Electric is to reopen as a multi-purpose space

One of Galway’s largest and longest-running club spaces Electric closed its doors during the pandemic…

Dry Cleaning for two Whelan’s Dublin shows

On of our favs Dry Cleaning have announced two small Dublin dates this year. having…

Danny Brown for Dublin show

Rapper Danny Brown will bring his Quaranta tour to Dublin this year. After the release…

The best Dublin gigs this week (Jan 16th – 22nd)

Gig guide highlights: Mad Professor, Palestine night with Naoise Roo, Sive and more; Ethereal Skies Aerga compilation night with Rory Sweeney & more, Daniel Avery, Why-Axis, The Word is Terry Christian, Stimming, Adrian Crowley & Matthew Nolan, Daniel Johnson night.

The Smile announce Paul Thomas Anderson film and album playback event in IFI Dublin

The Smile are the band formed by Radiohead members Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood with…

Alexis Taylor is DJing at Hang Dai Chinese this month

The Hot Chip frontman is coming to Dublin for a DJ set on Camden Street…