Irish Music

Bandcamp Friday: Some releases to buy today (Irish edition)

Friday December 4th is the final Bandcamp Friday of 2020, which of course means Bandcamp…

Kneecap share heartbreaking song they were writing about their mothers, before Móglaí Bap’s mam passed away

Trigger warning: This is an absolutely heartbreaking story concerning suicide. Kneecap have shared a new…

Micheál Quinn pays tribute to his encouraging aunt with new song ‘More’

Having played drums with Dermot Kennedy, Meltybrains? and Enemies over the years, Micheál Quinn recently…

12 new songs from Irish artists you should hear this week

New music from Babylamb, Eiza Murphy, Proper Micro NV, Shadeemus, Slaney, Laoise, 2E, Breezy iDeyGoke, Chaya, GRWL, Delac, Sélu.

MuRli and Kobina team up for new project Ra Gerra; hear ‘Terrified’

The Amsterdam-based Irish producer Kobina and the Limerick rapper MuRli have teamed up for a…

Saint Sister and Lisa Hannigan sing together on ‘The Place That I Work’

Saint Sister and Lisa Hannigan have teamed up for a new song from Saint Sister’s…

K.P. Ring’s lilting acoustic track ‘Not A Hopeless Place’ gets an elevated music video

Cork folk singer-songwriter K.P. Ring comes through with this lilting acoustic lifting song ‘Not A…

The 40 best new Irish bands of 2020

Welcome to the third annual Nialler9 new new Irish bands list! It is of course,…

Handpicked new tunes: Dry Cleaning, NewDad, Tandem Felix, Abbacaxi, Berwyn, Nils Frahm & more

Friday was release day and here’s the first things that caught my ear while listening…

Watch Uly cut his hair in the ‘That’s No Way To Fly’ video

The Dublin artist Rafino Murphy AKA Uly has cultivated a strand of lo-fi jazz-funk and…

UNQ drops the sparkling rhythmic R&B of debut song ‘Tried’

Simone Adinga, who makes music under the name UNQ, is a Dublin-based South-East London-born artist…

Chromatic capture Soft On Crime’s performance of ‘I Won’t Try’ in the mists of The Octagon, Co. Wicklow

We’re delighted to once again be teaming up with Irish film collective Chromatic in premiering…

Limerick rappers Aswell & Same D4Ence drop new tracks

It’s Limerick rap corner time, as two new tunes from Limerick rap artists dropped at…

Watch Malaki and Irish Women In Harmony perform on the Late Late Show

On Friday’s Late Late Show, there were two musical guests of note. First up, Dublin…

Handpicked new tunes: Tierra Whack, Slowthai, Bill Callahan, Smoothboi Ezra, Oscar #Worldpeace, & more

Friday was release day and here’s the first things that caught my ear while listening…

Girl Band’s Daniel Fox brings clanking industrial noise to his Columbia Mills’ ‘Understand’ remix

For the fourth and final remix in the Columbia Mills series before the EP is…

5 great new songs to love this week

Just five great new jams I love this week. See the New Music section for…

Úna Keane is one of the few artists in the world to release a live album recorded in 2020, hear the single ‘Hollow’

The Dublin musician Úna Keane has a live album of collaborations coming out which was…

For Those I Love gets a remix from Overmono

After the moving Jools Holland performance and the news that I Have A Love will…

9 new songs from emerging Irish artists you should hear

New music from Fya Fox, Soft On Crime, Christian Cohle, Willhouse, Low Gee x Yesunia, Regards Stephen, Pistol, Landers, Bruce Butler Trio and more.