Folk & Singer-Songwriter
Rarely a month goes by in which I don’t receive some Northern Irish music gem…
The Armagh band Silences were a recent pick at last year’s Hard Working Class Heroes…
Ciaran Lavery & Ryan Vail’s joint EP as Sea Legs on new NI label Quiet…
The Sufjan Stevens that affected me the most was the one that revelled in the…
Last night, a select Dublin audience got a full headphones listen to Sufjan’s new album…
Last year, Villagers released ‘Occupy Your Mind’, a song which addressed the Russian laws against…
Stefano Schiavocampo and Massimiliano Galli are two Italian lads who are based in Dublin who,…
Quet Arch is a new label from the people behind Champion Sound Recordings for non-electronic…
If the title gives us a clue about anything about the music of Inni-K beyond…
With a background conducting orchestras and hosting open mic nights New York’s Lower East Side,…
Sufjan Stevens’ seventh album called Carrie & Lowell due on March 27th. The album is…
Villagers have a third entitled Darling Arithmetic coming out on April 10th on Domino Records.…
A jovial intro track called ‘Guesty’, in which Johnnie Common offers to put his mate…
Over two years on from the first time we heard SOAK aka Bridie Monds-Watson sing…
The English folk singer Marika Hackman has shown she has a way with folk textures…
The Newbridge band Knoxville Morning lead by Ciaran Dwyer, released an album in 2012 inspired…
Lisa Hannigan has teamed up with An Post to raise funds for the Dublin Simon…
The Galway singer and musician Adrian Crowley has made a name for himself for creating…
Silences were one of my picks of the recent Hard Working Class Heroes lineup and…
I’ve been keeping tabs on Derry-born Laura McGarrigle. Her atmospheric orchestral songs as Gaze Is…