Irish Music

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We Were Giants – ‘All I Want’

We Were Giants are a young Dublin band consisting of Colm (Vocals/Guitar), Ste (Guitar/Vocals), Danny (Bass)…

Listen to charity Christmas songs by Lisa Hannigan and The Lost Brothers

Lisa Hannigan has teamed up with An Post to raise funds for the Dublin Simon…

Listen to two Windings remixes from Naive Ted & Auxiliary Phoenix

Windings asked two producers to remix tracks from this year’s split LP with Land Lovers…

Watch Annie Atkins’ video for We Cut Corners’ ‘Mammal’

It’s my pleasure to give you a first look at Annie Atkins’ music video for…

Listen/Watch: Villagers, Fight like Apes, Bouts, Spring Break, Land Lovers & So Cow perform charity single ‘Christmas Is In Your Heart’

Christmas Hearts is a charity single project piloted by Niall Jackson, guitarist and vocalist with…

Geppetto – ‘Floating Statues’

Geppetto is the musical project of producer/visual artist Paul Mahon who has brought musicians, once…

R.S.A.G. – ‘Don’t Move So Fast’

Jeremy Hickey has spent most of 2014 not working on his own music, mostly in…

We Cut Corners – ‘Stop The Cavalry’

We Cut Corners have covered the Jona Lewie Christmas classic ‘Stop The Cavalry’ in aid…

First Listen: OneKnown – ‘#009’

When he first appeared with music, Chris Hanna was truly and deliberately an unknown entity.…

Lyttet – ‘Distance’

Lyttet, the musical duo from Kildare comprised of Claire Nicole and Peadar Kearney and characterised…

First Listen: Speed Of Snakes’ new self-titled song

Speed Of Snakes, the project of Rupert from Bats and Vinny from the now-complete Adebisi…

Watch the video for Elastic Sleep’s ‘Slip’

Elastic Sleep’s new single ‘Slip’ is a dirgey shoegaze track that gets a release today…

Watch the video for Talos’ ‘Bloom’

Talos’ ‘Bloom’ gets released on 12″ alongside ‘Tethered Bones’ with remixes from Wife, Eomac and Slow…

First Listen: Seán Mac Erlaine – A Slender Song

A Slender Song, the second solo album from Seán Mac Erlaine, is a compilation of choice…

Watch the outlaw video for Hozier’s ‘From Eden’

A real Bad man. My album review.

Elastic Sleep – ‘Slip’

Elastic Sleep’s ‘Slip’, their newest single has an eerie alchemic quality to it. There are…

Meltybrains? – ‘IV’

Dublin band of experimental messers Meltybrains? are back with some material before the year is…

Watch Squarehead’s new video with Domhnall and Brian Gleeson

Squarehead have a new single and video for ‘2025’, a highlight from their recent Respect…

Listen to a two-track EP from Kildare producer Cinema

Newbridge producer Peter Fleming (hometown shoutout!), was making music as one half of Effy until…