Irish Music

Lisa Hannigan debuts the ballad ‘Ora’ ahead of this Friday’s album release

Before At Swim arrives on Friday’s release day, Lisa Hannigan has revealed another track from…

Watch Maija Sofia’s new Sandymount Beach-set video for ‘Stains’

The Galway-born Dublin-based singer songwriter Maija Sofia has released some fine gossamer lo-fi songs in…

Album of the week: All Tvvins – llVV

Band origin stories are usually littered with groups that weren’t great, were too young to…

First Listen: Everything Shook’s gothic electro debut Drinking About You
https://soundcloud.com/everything-shook/sets/album-drinking-about-you-by/s-ezpB6

Robyn Bromfield, Jessica Kennedy, Áine Stapleton’s music as Everything Shook falls somewhere between ambient electronica,…

Mongoose address the 8th amendment on ‘Doing Things Wrong’

The four-piece folk band Mongoose released a harmony-lead collection of rambunctious folk pop music last…

Watch a live version of Talos’ ‘Your Love Is An Island’ in Reykjavik, Iceland

Cork man Eoin French latest Talos song ‘Your Love Is An Island’ is one of…

Watch a new video for No Monster Club’s ‘I’m Retired’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PhccjQY8Ig Last year, Bobby Aherne aka No Monster Club released his best album yet People…

Kildare duo Tebi Rex release the dance/hip-hop of ‘Black Enough’

​Matt O’Baoill and Max Zanga are Tebi Rex an alt hip-hop duo from Maynooth, Kildare…

Hear Wastefellow’s remix of rising Irish artist Ruth

Ruth Cronin, is a Kerry artist now based in Dublin who has recently supported This…

Beauty Sleep reach for the starry-eyed with ‘Living Right’

Cheylene Murphy (Pleasure Beach), Ryan McGroarty (Wonder Villains / A Bad Cavalier), and Aimee Williamson…

MAU remixed Liza Flume’s ‘Bodies’ into body-conscious remix

Last month, Liza Flume made a welcome return with ‘Bodies’, a sparse song adorned with…

Wallis Bird celebrates happiness on new single ‘Change’

Wallis Bird has been toiling away in Berlin working on her new album for the…

Photo: Camille Blake
WIFE’s crosses machinery & nature on ‘Glass Interruption’

It may have once felt like a big leap from black metal to experimental electronica…

Cork’s Chris Power dropped a new sweet beats mixtape

With a cover image that looks at first glance like it was taken from some…

Blooms flirts with temptation on ‘Distance’

London-based Cork lady Louise Cunnane, Blooms, has this year, featured on collaborator Kobina’s EP as…

Rocstrong – ‘Show Off What You Got’

Andre J.P Bangala’s nascent career has quickly ascended from radio play to TV ads to…

Skinner has made 2016’s definitive album about skulling cans and smoking rollies

When the world seems to be turning madder with each passing day, sometimes you need…

First Listen: Pearse McGloughlin’s Nocturnes – The Soft Animal LP

Pearse McGloughlin will release his fourth album of music under the name Nocturnes on Friday.…

Dundalk’s T.P.M. are back with saucy little number ‘Eat That Curry’

Dundalk’s T.P.M. first came to us via a street performance of their song ‘All The…

Hvmmingbyrd – ‘If Love Was Enough’

Hvmmingbyrd are a Dublin band that recently reappeared as a duo and a new sound…