Album of the week: James Vincent McMorrow – Post Tropical

If you’re looking for the most stark difference between James Vincent McMorrow’s Early In The…

New music: Fickle Friends, Laura Groves, Tears & Marble

Fickle Friends – ‘Swim’ This Brighton five-piece band’s new single ‘Swim’ is a good antidote…

Intro: The Academic – Mullingar’s bright young hopefuls

Mullingar has been the hometown of Joe Dolan, Niall from One Direction and The Blizzards.…

Arenas x Talkboy – EP

The internet is great. A huge interconnected network of computers that everyone in the entire…

Intro: The Cast Of Cheers’ Neil Adams is Kuma Hana

While The Cast Of Cheers have been on quiet time, Conor Adams has made music…

Listen to Paddy Hanna’s solo album – Leafy Stiletto

As noted previously, Paddy Hanna is the lead singer of Grand Pocket Orchestra, perhaps the…

Withneil And I – 2 EP

Neil Burns is a musician, songwriter and producer who namechecks Derry, Donegal and Down as…

King Krule – ‘A Lizard State’ (video)

The most lively track from King Krule’s debut album 6 Feet Beneath The Moon, ‘A…

Mansionair – ‘Hold Me Down’

Lachlan Bostock and Alex Nicholls are Mansionair, a pretty new production duo from Sydney, i.e…

FKA Twigs – ‘Water Me’ (DJ DJ Booth Remix)

I’m quite a fan of FKA Twigs’ music . Both her EPs are stellar pieces…

Meltybrains? – ‘Green, Yellow & Purple’ (video)

Both times I’ve seen Meltybrains? play in Dublin, both shows were shut down by the…

Watch Snakadaktal’s looptastic and hypnotic video for ‘Fall Underneath’

Melbourne five-piece band Snakadaktal released a fine debut album of atmospheric indie tunes with Sleep…

Chromeo – ‘Come Alive’ (feat. Toro y Moi)

Chromeo’s White Women is certainly one of my most anticipated albums of 2014. We’ve already…

St. Vincent – ‘Digital Witness’

You can hear the influence of Annie Clark’s recent collaborative album with David Byrne on…

Girl Band – ‘Lawman’

Dublin band Girl Band had a relatively quiet 2013 but they’ve got things moving for…

Little Bear – ‘Night Dries Like Ink’ (video)

Derry’s Little Bear had a fine 2013 that was helped immensely by two appearances at…

Readers’ Poll: Top 25 Irish albums of 2013

Concluding the Best of 2013 lists with your favourite Irish albums as voted in the…

Readers’ Poll: Top 30 Irish songs of 2013

Best of 2013 continues. The results of your favourite Irish songs are in. Check the…

Readers’ Poll: Favourite gigs, videos, EPs and remixes of 2013

Here are the first results of the Readers’ Poll showing your favourite gigs, videos, EPs,…

Nialler9’s top 100 songs of 2013

Artwork by Fatti Burke. Of all the annual Best Of Lists, top tracks is the…