Irish Music

Subaltern – ‘Black Cat’

It was last summer when Alex Lawes & Sean Merrigan first appeared with a brance…

Watch Bouts’ NSFW video featuring Irish couples having sex

It’s not every week, or every year you see an Irish music video with nudity…

Clockwork Noise – ‘The Tourists’

I gave a talk last night about Music In The Digital Age for Budweiser’s Future…

Lethal Dialect – ‘School Dayz Are Over’

While Rejjie Snow is getting all the international attention, Lethal Dialect is at the coalface…

Tandem Felix – ‘How Strange the Weather’ (Trout Records session)

Following on from videos of Enemies and Cian Nugent, the latest Trout Records session features…

The Late David Turpin – ‘Like Bird and Beast’ feat. Cathy Davey

True to his eccentric form, David Turpin has released a free download of his track…

Ellie Goulding – ‘How Long Will I Love You’ (EMBRZ remix)

22 year-old Maynooth producer Jack Casey has only been making music publicly as EMBRZ since…

Intro: Go Wolf – Kitsuné-approved Belfast indie-disco pop

Having a track featured on a series which in the past has featured the likes…

Emakousma – Island (album stream)

Expressive instrumental guitar melodies, fingerplucked treated string notes, ambient waves of noise, piano chords lumbering…

We Cut Corners – ‘YKK’ (video)

‘YKK’, the new single from Dublin pair We Cut Corners is out next week as…

Somadrone – The First Wave (album premiere)

Neil O’Connor’s fourth album as Somadrone feels like his most complete body of work yet.…

Rollers/Sparkers – ‘Slit Fricative’

Rollers/Sparkers haven’t done anything in five years but that’s about to change, the Dublin experimental…

Ghost Maps – The Ocean From The River (album premiere)

As a member of Halfset, Jeff Martin is no stranger to intricately constructed arrangements. It’s…

Rónán Ó Snodaigh – ‘Aire’

Kila man, gaeilgeoir and  future-bodhrán player Rónán Ó Snodaigh has a new album out later this month,…

Intro: Winter Aid – Irish music blogger releases debut EP

It is eight years to the day since I first wrote about music on Nialler9,…

Album of the week: Lisa O’Neill – Same Cloth Or Not

Listen to songs from Lisa O’Neill’s 2009 debut long player Has an Album and you…

Bleeding Heart Pigeons – ‘Visiting Myself In Hospital’

About this time last year, I wrote about Bleeding Heart Pigeons, three Limerick teens making music…

Knoxville Morning – ‘Lighthouse Song’ (video)

Ciaran Dwyer (a good friend of mine as written about before) is the main man…

Hunk – ‘Precipice’

Hunk are Niamh Hegarty, Sundara O’Higgins, a rock band who released their debut fuzzy lo-fi…

Listen to the Best Of Champion Sound 2013 label compilation

The Belfast label Champion Sound has only been around a year but in that short…