New Artists

London Irish duo St. Francis Hotel release ‘Stay As You Are’

As introduced earlier in the month, St. Francis Hotel are a production duo from Ireland…

Intro: Lorne – a new London singer & songwriter impacts with melancholic debut

Lorne is a brand new artist based in London whose debut single ‘Bread Alone’ offers…

Rising Irish artist Laoise celebrates over 130k Spotify plays of debut single with live performance

Galway artist Laoise is set to build on her Nirvana cover and the release of…

Maggie Rogers – ‘On + Off’

Hotly-tipped 22-year-old singer, producer and musician Maggie Rogers has dropped a third song from her…

Young Dubliner Reuben James channels Kendrick on ‘What You Want’

There’s an undeniable influence on Reuben James‘ impressive new track ‘What You Want’. The flow…

Irish beatmaker Plant Food & MC Ganiyu TLG collaborate on the grimey ‘Shivers’
https://soundcloud.com/plantfoodmusic/sets/the-greenroom

The Dublin beatmaker Plant Food dropped a fine EP of Brainfeeder-style beats late last year,…

Hear Kobina’s remix of Bodies’ ‘Nightmoves’

Bodies is a music project by David Anthony Mc Geown with an album called Drench…

10 underappreciated albums of 2016

The music world moves fast. Thousands of songs are competing for your attention every day…

Introducing: St. Francis Hotel – Irish London production duo making slick grooves

St. Francis Hotel are a new Irish act/producers based in London who have released three…

Introducing: Siights – Hozier live player makes dance-pop with Scottish songwriter

Siights is a new duo formed by Toni Etherson and Mia Fitz, the former a…

Introducing: Laoise – brooding Irish electro pop

Galway artist Laoise Ní Nualláin came to my attention with a downbeat electro pop cover…

Color//Sound & Raglans member Brendan McGlynn shares languid solo project Lovr

Brendan McGlynn is the former singer of Color//Sound and the current guitarist of the Raglans.…

Wicklow due Gumshoe drop a sweet bubblin’ instrumental track

There’s not much info out there about Wicklow duo Gumshoe, but they sent across this…

Grace Lightman’s ‘Repair Repair’ is mantric synth-pop that channels Kate Bush

London-based artist and undeniable Kate Bush soundalike Grace Lightman has followed up ‘Faultless’ and ‘White…

Niamh Regan’s lilted folk song ‘She’ is what you need today

I caught a bit of Niamh Regan’s set after the Sing Along Social at Electric…

Albert af Ekenstam – ‘Made of Gold’

Swedish singer-songwriter Albert af Ekenstam has a debut album called Ashes coming on October 14th…

New Irish electro-pop music from Caz9 – ‘Running’
https://soundcloud.com/iamcaz9/running

The name Caz9 was first spotted on the Electric Picnic lineup and duly highlighted but…

The Mighty Stef returns as Count Vaseline

Stefan Murphy was the driving force behind the Mighty Stef band until May when the…

Intro: Sensual pop time with Tender’s ‘Outside’

New North London based artists Tender (James Cullen and Dan Cobb) recently signed to Partisan…

Intro: Ardyn – UK siblings reaching out with new pop tones

Cotswold brother and sister Rob and Katy Pearson, Ardyn, appeared earlier late in 2015 with…