REID – ‘Miami’

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

Sacred Animals vs. Steffaloo – ‘On Fire’

Since releasing his debut Welcome Home EP, Darragh Nolan aka Sacred Animals has been delving…

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…

Not Squares – ‘Fall Far’

When Not Squares dropped into the Button Factory in Dublin a couple of weeks ago,…

Band of Blogs: The Suzan, Hidden Highways, Phantom & Baio

Every Friday, I pick out four new music picks from the best of the music…

Squarepusher – ‘Drax 2’

More new Squarepusher from new album Ufabulum. Business as usual = an orgy of bleepy…

El-P – ‘Tougher Colder Killer’ feat. Killer Mike and Despot

“I slapped the motherfucker so hard, his mother just called him and said ‘Baby, you…

Is this a new mix from The Avalanches?

I started this blog in 2005. The Avalanches‘ brilliant Since I Left You album was…

Listen to CYMBALS – Sideways, Sometimes EP

Sometimes you just need a full body of work to digest rather than scraps of…

Grimes – ‘Genesis’ (live on Later with Jools Holland)

Grimes did herself a great service in the great buzzband of 2012 stakes with this…

Elliphant – ‘Tekkno Scene’ (video)

In an interview in this month’s Dazed & Confused, Stockholm’s Ellinor Olovsdotter bka Elliphant says…

Futures Apart
Futures Apart – ‘Landslide’

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

Outfit
Outfit – ‘Drakes’

“Your skin is coming off in my hands”. That’s one of the standout (and slightly…

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…

Teishi-1 – ‘Koi’ (Lemonada Remix)

I played this out last night. Irish born but not of this world. Insane. The…

If there’s only one thing you do this weekend…

…Watch The Last Waltz in tribute to Levon Helm who passed away yesterday. The Band’s…