Folk & Singer-Songwriter

Intro: Winter Aid – Irish music blogger releases debut EP

It is eight years to the day since I first wrote about music on Nialler9,…

Album of the week: Lisa O’Neill – Same Cloth Or Not

Listen to songs from Lisa O’Neill’s 2009 debut long player Has an Album and you…

Katharine Philippa – Broken to be Rebuilt EP

Katharine Philippa is one of the most interesting new artists to appear from Northern Ireland…

Knoxville Morning – ‘Lighthouse Song’ (video)

Ciaran Dwyer (a good friend of mine as written about before) is the main man…

Cian Nugent & The Cosmos – ‘Grass Above My Head’

Cian Nugent is a young Irish guitarist in the vein of John Fahey, who, in…

Premiere: Sorcha Richardson – Last Train EP

Sorcha Richardson gave us a listen to the title track from Last Train, “a typically…

Chequerboard – ‘Today is Beautiful, We Have Things to Do’

John Lambert returns to his fruitful Chequerboard project with a new third album, The Unfolding…

Playlist: Tracks of the week #12

New songs you should hear this week… This week’s installment of new music debuted/heard in…

Hidden Highways – ‘Next Time Round’

After celebrating their tenth year anniversary with a bash in Dolan’s in their hometown of…

New music: I Have A Tribe, Rhodes, Vann Music & Hannah Rodgers

The best new music/artist picks of the last week. As published in today’s Day &…

Album of the week: Pearse McGloughlin and Justin Grounds – Idiot Songs

An album by two musicians collaborating via a shared love of Dostoevsky produces a fine…

Marika Hackman – That Iron Taste (mini-album)

From the one that got away department, That Iron Taste is a mini-album originally released…

Southern – ‘The World Don’t Shine’

Belfast siblings Thom and Lucy aka Southern’s harmony folk pop has been making an impression…

New music: Hozier, Black Atlass, Astronomyy & the return of early Dizzee Rascal

The best new music/artist picks of the last week. As published in today’s Day &…

Rachael Boyd – ‘You Need To Stop Looking’ [video]

A former member of the now disbanded Friend?, Belfast multi-instrumentalist Rachael Boyd has been making…

Intro: Ásgeir Trausti – Iceland’s next breakout star?

Hailing from Iceland where 10% of the population own his album Dyrd i daudathogn and…

New music: Southern, Postiljonen, Jessy Lanza & Mutya Keisha Siobhan

The best new music/artist picks of the last week. As published in today’s Day &…

Folk singer Alela Diane releases new album About Farewell this week

Nevada City, California native Alela Diane’s 2009 album To Be Still is one of my…

Áine O’Dwyer – ‘Falcon’

Áine O’Dwyer is a London-based Limerick-born musician who has played in United Bible Studies who…

Sorcha Richardson – ‘Last Train’

New York-based Irish musician Sorcha Richardson is back on home soil this week to launch…