Irish Music

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…

Phare’s ‘Monday’ is pulsing bounced electronica

Known for his work as one half of ambient shoegaze band Lyttet, Kildare man Peadar…

Bren McGillicuddy spins a hypnotic Jon Hopkins-style jam on ‘Join with Gold’

Bren McGillicuddy is a Dublin producer who is about to release his debut release. The…

Swords return with the short hook-filled single ‘Betty Machete’

The Dublin band Swords have a new album due this winter called Tidal Waves and…

Plutonic Dust – ‘Kill For Gold’

The nu-disco synth electronic band Plutonic Dust (Veronica Moran, Patrick McAdam, Kevin McKnight, Ciaran O’Shea…

Hear Funeral Suits’ new track ‘Crowded Out’

The Dublin band Funeral Suits have their first album in four years on the way.…

Watch Ciaran Lavery’s new video for ‘Okkervil River’

Ciaran Lavery’s Let Bad In is one of the finest Irish albums of the year…

Hear James Vincent McMorrow’s new R&B-leaning song ‘Rising Water’

Update: gigs and album title also announced. James Vincent McMorrow’s new album We Move is…

Premiere: Ailbhe Reddy – Hollowed Out Sea EP

After debuting her excellent single ‘Distrust’, Ailbhe Reddy has kindly given myself first dibs on…

Members of Jogging, Waiting Room & Cat Palace form Like Chandeliers

Like Chandeliers are a new band which got its start as a long-distance home recording…

Hear Cork’s Abovedat’s new track with Jesse Boykins III

Stevie G & Young Wonder’s Ian Ring Abovedat project debuted a couple of months back…

Elephant finds his muse again with ‘Stay With Me’

Dundalk singer-songwriter Shane Clark aka Elephant is following up his debut album Hypergiant released last…

Premiere: Rosa Nutty – ‘Sea Salt’

Irish singer-songwriter Rosa Nutty impressed with her debut EP last year, and in particular the single…

Here’s the Put Em’ Under Pressure dance remix you need this weekend

Several years back, Gavin Elsted aka Adultrock put together a mashup of the Republic Of…

Lyttet producer Phare drops some euphoria-tinged electronica on ‘Up’

As one half of Lyttet, Peadar Kearney makes softly-lit shoegazing ambient music with Claire Nicole…

Limerick’s Proper Micro NV adds some neo-soul to his electronic music on ‘Revive’

21 year-old Limerick electronic producer Rory Hall AKA Proper Micro NV has recently hit a…