Irish Music

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…

Patrick Kelleher – ‘Put Out The Lights & Cry’ (video premiere)

Dublin experimental ghost / slacker / disco / pop musician Patrick Kelleher is back with…

Deady – ‘Lightning & Thunder’

Cork soul singer Brian Deady is back with ‘Lightning & Thunder’ a new single with…

Terriers – ‘For You’ / ’13/13′

Peter Ward and Ronan Downing , who call themselves the electronic duo Terriers have been…

Hear Chromatics’ Nat Walker remix Funeral Suits

Chromatics and Desire band member Nat Walker has remixed ‘All Those Friendly People’, one of…

James Vincent McMorrow – ‘Cavalier’ (video)

James Vincent McMorrow returned with news of a second album Post-Tropical and a stunning first…

Premiere: Alarmist – Pal Magnet EP

Alarmist debuted the rolling twisted rhythms ‘Bunda Internacionale’, a song which also has African and…

Interview: Lasertom – sonic treats, special moments and disco grooves

Ireland’s electronic scene has been enriched of late by artists and musicians exploring the fringes…

Intro: Darling – glossy Dublin pop/rock duo

Darling are a new Dublin duo, Gary Harding and James McGuire who were formerly members…

Biggles Flys Again have an excellent new Dublin-centric video & Strands remix

‘Chambers’ from Biggles Flys Again’s Remember Saturdays album is subtitled as ‘(Or The Twenty Eight…

Listen to a finger-picked track from Monaghan-based Emakousma

Barry Quinn is a Monaghan man, an illustrator and a musician under the name Emakousma…

Premiere: Bouts – Nothing Good Gets Away (album stream)

Bouts are a Dublin rock band made up of Barry Bracken (Vocals, Guitar), Colin Boylan…

Intro: Ghost Maps – Halfset’s Jeff Martin’s new project

Instrumental Dublin band Halfset are by now, a band pretty much considered defunct and with…

Premiere: The Mighty Stef – Iveagh Flats EP

Stefan Murphy’s name is the title but The Mighty Stef are very much a band…

Aoife Underwater – ‘You Didn’t Break’

Here’s a musician who I featured three years back who went quiet shortly afterwards. The…

Alarmist – ‘Bunda Internacionale’

Dublin band Alarmist have been quiet since last year’s live dates. The band’s debut EP…