Irish Music

Dublin band Fangclub channel Nirvana with 2-minute debut single ‘Bullet Head’

Short and to the point is how the Dublin band Fangclub are keeping things with…

Watch the new Saint Sister video for ‘Blood Moon’

Atmosfolk duo Saint Sister, Gemma Doherty and Morgan MacIntyre are one of the best new…

Listen to Jennifer Evans’ artful & frantic new single ‘Bakkos’

Jennifer Evans is ready to follow up her debut album Works From the Dip and…

Hvmmingbyrd return with a new sound on ‘Out of My Head’

The alt-pop band Hvmmingbyrd recently underwent a transition in which they changed their lineup and…

Overhead, The Albatross announce debut album & release cinematic video for ‘Indie Rose’

Overhead, The Albatross have announced their debut album Learning To Growl. It’ll feature the previously-featured…

Contour wrote a song using the 1916 GPO morse code signal

Photography: Olga Kuzmenko In the past few months, I’ve been sent some music that addresses…

EVVOL – ‘Physical L.U.V’

Berlin-based Evvol released a fine album called Eternalism last year, which included the higlights ‘Four…

Premiere: Watch Ham Sandwich’s new video for ‘Satellite’

HamsandwicH’s  Stories From The Surface album has cemented the Kells band as one of Ireland’s…

Ryan Vail’s whispered minimal electronics show up in ‘Mirrors’

Following on from the brittle brooding ‘Wounds’, Derry’s Ryan Vail has dropped a new track…

Clu have made a remix of Blade Runner

Dublin A/V duo Clu specialise in electronic bass and dance music paired with tripped-out visuals.…

BARQ introduce their alt R&B with single ‘Gentle Kind Of Lies’

BARQ are a new Dublin band making Alt R&B music or “Agrosoul” as they describe…

Dublin hip-hop duo Dusty Residents rap about being ‘Wanted’

MC Bradshaw and producer Taaffeman make up the Dublin hip-hop duo Dusty Residents. The duo…

Killarney producer Sheerin drops the bright pop sheen dance track ‘We Are One’

The 20 year-old Kerry producer David Sheerin is a self-taught DJ from Killarney who came to my…

Lisa O’Neill returns with ‘Pothole In The Sky’

The talented Cavan singer-songwriter Lisa O’Neill has made a welcome return with news of her…

Introducing: Pine The Pilcrow – a rising cinematic trio

Pine The Pilcrow are a new band I was only vaguely aware of until Ruby…

Silences – ‘There’s A Wolf’

Armagh singer-songwriter Conchúr White and his band Silences have been writing songs of growing stature…

The Nialler9 New Irish Music weekly playlist

For the last couple of years, I’ve been compiling an up to date playlist of…

Mmoths’ debut Luneworks is the result of nocturnal experimentalism

It’s been an unusually long journey for Jack Colleran from the time he first appeared…

Come On Live Long are back with a neo-soul wonder ‘For The Birds’

It’s been a term of regrouping for Come On Live Long in the past year…

Cork’s Chris Power and Gunkel are making some “forward thinking experimental hip-hop”

Cork producer of hip-hop beats Chris Power recently teamed up with Cleveland rapper Atari Jones…