The Go! Team are back with a brassy bacchanalia & Detroit Youth Choir on ‘Semicircle Song’

The Go! Team are back and for their first song since 2015’s The Scene Between.…

First listen: Orchid Collective – ‘L.A.Z.Y’

The Dublin-based band Orchid Collective have followed up their recent EP and single from earlier…

Recommended: Galway psychedelic independent pop LP from Eoin Dolan – Ubique

Eoin Dolan is a Galway musician who channels the Beach Boys’ sunny warmth like no…

Naive Ted and Post-Punk Podge talk tough on mental health

The don of Limerick hip-hop has been back at it as of late, and he’s…

Cloud Castle Lake remain singularly impressive on ‘Twins’

Cloud Castle Lake are a band like few others. If melding intricate arrangements with elements…

5 albums to listen to this week: Daphni, Kelela, Four Tet, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Jordan Rakei

With so many releases flying at you, here are recommended vetted listens from Nialler9 for…

New band of the week: WhenYoung – Limerick London pop punk trio

Whenyoung are a new London-based pop punks made up of Irish musicians Aoife Power (Vocals/…

Martin Hayes continues his music mastery with new Quartet album

Martin Hayes is an Irish music legend that can there be no doubt. In recent…

The Academic made an ingenious live looped video last night that already has 300k plus views

For a video of their latest single ‘Bear Claws’, Mullingar’s The Academic came up with…

Watch Soulwax’s epic video for ‘Is This Binary?’ feat. 3 drummers & a lot of gear

The video for Soulwax’s ‘Is This Binary?’ features 3 drummers (and a temporary 4th), a…

St. Vincent’s ‘Los Ageless’ video takes us to a skin-stretching polychromatic world

St. Vincent has released a music video directed by Willo Perron for ‘Los Ageless’. “How…

Haim have made another awesome dance music video with Paul Thomas Anderson

Haim have followed up their superb dance-lead video for ‘Want You Back’ with another dance-lead…

Resonant Irish folk brothers Ye Vagabonds impress with ‘Song Long Forgotten’

Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn aka Ye Vagabonds are Carlow brothers who have found a…

Hear Ryan Vail’s intimate AFX-esque remix of Talos’ ‘Voices’

Talos’ Wild Alee album is among the best Irish albums released this year thanks to…

Watch a retrostellar animated video for Ships’ ‘I Can Never’

Ships‘ album Precession is one of the finest records of the year song-wise along with…

Belfast rapper Leo Miyagee introduces himself on District’s label

London-raised, Belfast-based, Zimbabwean artist Leo Miyagee introduces himself on ‘IDGAF’ with a brief history of…

It looks like there’s a new Daphni release on the way

Caribou posted two track previews on his Facebook in the past day that suggest (the…

Carriages bring warmth & a heartfelt playfulness on their Homebeat-released Movement EP

​Harry​ ​Bookless​ ​and​ ​Aaron​ ​Page​’s Carriages project takes field recordings and weaves them into songs…

Watch LCD Soundsystem perform ‘Tonite’ on Later

American Dream buzzing highlight was played live on Later With Jools Holland last night. It’s…

Lilla Vargen reintroduces herself with the cautionary ‘Hold On’

Lilla Vargen is an Northern Irish artist who appeared with some interesting demos a couple…