Irish Music

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…

Listen to the new album from Dublin alt experimentalists Rollers/Sparkers

Over two years ago, the Dublin alt experimental band Rollers/Sparkers returned with their first bit…

Carriages return with ‘Like A Child’

Harry Bookless and Aaron Page, known as Carriages, were a regular fixture on Dublin music…

Listen to Cinema’s debut album A Night Train To Budapest

Peter Fleming, the Kildare-born producer in charge of Cinema has impressed me with his instrumental…

Hear tracks from the latest Bodytonic release from Irish producer Manzana Kicks

Bodytonic have been focusing on enriching Dublin city with bars of late but they are…

Burnt Out – A North Dublin working class expression of living through the recession

Burnt Out is a new project based out of North Dublin. It’s a music project…

Album premiere: J. Cowhie – Veil

The music of John Cowhie aka Goodtime, has consistently had a textured appeal to it…

Listen to a Diamond Dagger remix of Everything Shook’s ‘Come Back To Mine’

The music of Everything Shook, the three-piece of Robyn Bromfield, Jessica Kennedy and Áine Stapleton…

Watch Meltybrains? perform live in extreme close up in Connollys Of Leap

Meltybrains? went down to play in the rejuvenated venue in West Cork, Connolly’s of Leap…

Slow Riot – ‘Trophy Wife’

Limerick post-punk band Slow Riot have a new single coming to follow up their impressive…

Bad Bones – ‘Games’

Only last month, Sal Stapleton’s Bad Bones project impressed with the track ‘Beg’. That song’s…

Album of the week: The Gloaming – 2

This weekend, and part of the next week, The Gloaming will take up a sold…

The Natural History Museum – ‘Jeweller’

Electronic producer Dunk Murphy and singer-songwriter Carol Keogh, have only just released a fine album…

First Listen: Ailbhe Reddy – ‘Distrust’

Ailbhe Reddy is a singer-songwriter who’s been bubbling under for a bit developing her sound.…

Slow Skies leaves us longing for a ‘Winter Night’

Karen Sheridan and Conal Herron’s Slow Skies was quiet for 2015 since ‘Bodies’ and their…

Premiere: Wyvern Lingo – ‘Beast At The Door’

With each passing song, Wyvern Lingo show a new facet of their developing sound, especially…