Irish Music

Intro: Sisters – Limerick London-based noise-pop band

Sisters are a new alt-rock band consisting of Andrew (drums), Aoife (bass/vocals) and Niall (guitar/vocals)…

Nanu Nanu – ‘Dirt’ (video)

http://vimeo.com/77690647 Alien-pop is still a handy shorthand for what Laura Sheeran and Marc Aubelle do…

Fight Like Apes – ‘Carousel’

Looking through the Fight Like Apes discography (i.e. listening to the music they’ve released), some…

Biggles Flys Again – ‘Morning’ (The Casanova Wave Remix)

Biggles Flys Again’s Remember Saturday album (stream here) continues to bear some lovely fruit after…

Listen to Kildare duo Benihana’s debut EP

Benihana, the electronic twosome from Naas are Will Molloy and Billy Archbold. They released some…

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,…