Irish Music

Listen to Augustus & John’s debut LP of “sunshine jams & melodic mood swings”

“Sunshine jams & melodic mood swings” is how Mike Smalle & Matteo Grassi have pitched…

Premiere: Dundalk musician Elephant’s debut album Hypergiant

Dundalk man Shane Clarke has been making a reputation for himself with his gentle falsetto-laden…

Listen to the EMBRZ remix of Oh Wonder’s ‘Lose it’

Two of my favourite new artists on the same track. Awesome. Oh Wonder just dropped…

Listen to Forrests’ first EP in two years – Organs

It’s been a quiet couple of years for Dublin duo Forrests on the recording front since…

Cheer up Slow Riot
Listen to Limerick post-punk band Slow Riot’s debut EP

The Limerick post-punk band Slow Riot burst into our consciousness with a song called ‘City…

Premiere: Daithí’s new track features his 90-year old grandmother talking about falling in love

West of Ireland electro/pop fiddle and button pusher Daithí has been finding his own groove…

Hear a track from the forthcoming Villagers album recorded live in one day

Where Have You Been All My Life? is a unique Villagers collection of music from…

Watch the ‘All The Boys On The Dole’ video

The Dundalk boys TPM gave us their recorded version of their social welfare anthem ‘All…

Watch the video for Contour’s chaos-seeking pole-dancing ‘Paradise Lost’

The Dublin twosome of Anna Doran and Conan Wynne dropped their recent Contour EP Blessed…

Hear the recorded version of T.P.M.’s ‘All The Boys On The Dole’

In August, you may have seen a video of a band called T.P.M. busking on…

Watch: Dublin trad band Lynched on Jools Holland last night

TV still has the capacity to surprise musically as it showed famously last year with…

Katie Laffan’s indie/funk/pop debut EP marks a fun talent

Katie Laffan has been making music for a few years now and received some attention…

Premiere: The Mayo minimalist pianist Conor Walsh previews his debut EP

The Mayo composer and pianist Conor Walsh has been making some impressive neo-classical electronic-smudged tracks that…

Saint Sister – ‘Blood Moon’

One of the hits of last weekend’s Hard Working Class Heroes festival, Gemma Doherty and…

Watch Le Galaxie’s new live video for ‘Put The Chain On’

Le Galaxie are taking Le Club to New York this week, where they have a…

An Irish producer is about to release an EP on Brainfeeder

Iglooghost is an 18 year-old Irish-born UK-based producer and beatmaker who I’ve featured here before…

Owensie – ‘Dramamine’

It’s been nearly three years since we had some new music from Owensie and longer…

Album of the week: Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie

It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly how Girl Band made the jump from another rock band…

Talos – ‘In Time’

As Eoin French has consistently proved with his recorded output and his live Talos shows…

Dah Jevu – ‘Incubus’

Dublin alt hip-hop duo Dah Jevu have dropped their dark brooding new single ‘Incubus’ with…