Irish Music

Rarely Seen Above Ground – ‘Falter’

With an appearance at this weekend’s Forbidden Fruit coming up and an 18 date Irish…

Si Schroeder
Si Schroeder – ‘Clocked’

Ten months ago Si Schroeder re-appeared after a long five-year hiatus with ‘Jump Ship’. Then…

Funeral suits
Listen to Funeral Suits remixes by Toby Kaar & Reid

Funeral Suits‘ long-awaited Stephen Street-produced debut album Lily of the Valley gets set into the…

Hush War Cry – ‘Apparitions’ (video)

It’s been 8 month’s since Cork’s Hush War Cry first impressed me with ‘Lily’. Their…

Sleep Thieves - Islands EP
Sleep Thieves – Islands EP

It’s always a pleasure to hear a band move to the next level of their…

Cian Nugent
Cian Nugent – ‘Grass Above My Head’ / ‘My War Blues’ (Black Flag) 7″

Last year, Cian Nugent came to a lot of people’s attention with his full-length album…

Strange Passion – A compilation of Irish post-punk, DIY and Electronic music 1980-83

Curated by former Maximum Joy and current B-music DJ Darren McCreeesh, Strange Passion is a…

Watch A Joyful Slog – a documentary on Irish independent music culture

A Joyful Slog is a one-hour documentary exploring the essential and necessary rise of do…

Listen to the I Am The Cosmos / Ships Synth Eastwood 7″

Now, here’s a good idea. Combine the two brightest electronic disco-dance bands in Ireland at…

Video: GOODTIME – ‘Come With Me (Take the Night)’

A video for the warming last track from Goodtime’s The Colours Of Darkness album, one…

REID – ‘Miami’

Today is a good global day for Irish music on the internet it seems. Sacred…

last Days of 1984
Premiere: Stream Last Days Of 1984’s debut album – Wake Up To The Waves

When Darren Moloney and Brian Rice debuted their Last Days Of 1984 project with ‘River’s…

Five reasons why Irish trad has been reinvigorated in 2012

Update: A few people have taken issue with my opinions below. Let me just stress…

Futures Apart
Futures Apart – ‘Landslide’

More future new romantic indie wave from Wexford and Ballina via Dublin-based Futures Apart. This…

Listen to Forward/Slash: Volume 1 – Irish electronic music compilation

Further proof that Ireland has got it going on in electronic music at the moment.…

As An Talamh: Notes On Rave In Dublin (video teaser)

DCTV present a look at Dublin’s underground dance scene in a documentary of two parts…

Introducing: Skelocrats – Popical Island’s new “grotty pop” supergroup

The Popical Island universe is expanding once again. Actually, it’s kinda getting incestuous but in…

Temper-Mental MissElayneous – ‘Dominoes’ (video)

MissElayneous goes for a wander around the Dame Street area of Dublin in a video…

Last Days Of 1984 – ‘River’s Edge’ (video)

We all know that the internet has changed the way we watch music videos, that’s…

Stream: Patrick Kelleher’s Ghost Wop Doo Wop Record Store Day covers tape

Another Record Store Day release, this one. a selection of six covers of doo wop songs…