Friendly Fires – ‘Hurting’ (music video)

Perhaps my favourite track from Pala (certainly the one I play the most while DJing),…

The best of free Irish music releases in 2011

For Day And Night today, I compiled a list of the top 10 free downloadable…

Hello Moon – ‘Sievehead’ (video by Myles O’Reilly)

Myles O’Reilly reimagines the Hello Moon album cover in video form. The band’s jaunty indie-pop…

Holy ghost
Holy Ghost! – ‘I Wanted To Tell Her’ feat. Nancy Whang & Juan Maclean

Holy Ghost! release a free-download single and cover of Ministry’s ‘I Wanted To Tell Her’…

Hear a new Drake song featuring The Weeknd – ‘The Ride’

I’ve been avoiding the leaks from Drake’s Take Care album because so many other blogs…

T-Woc – Jetstar EP

T-Woc’s latest EP on Alphabet Set is perhaps his most fully-formed release yet. Known primarily…

Lethal Dialect
Irish rap roundup: Lethal Dialect, Ath Cliath Records, Loud Mouth Collective & more

A fair bit of Irish rap stuff has appeared on my radar lately so I…

Hunter-Gatherer – ‘Mask’

A new song / single from Dublin-based electronic masked man Hunter-Gatherer. It’s a slow building…

Tara Masterson Hally – ‘Lingering’ (live from an old bank)

Back in August, I introduced Tara Masterson Hally’s muted folk songs. Here you can hear…

TOPs
Introducing: TOPS – Montreal melodic soft rock

The two songs I’ve heard from Montreal’s TOPS have a AM frequency soft-rock and bright…

Introducing: Clu – a Dublin A/V duo

Clu are a duo who started with the electronic productions of Sean Cooley before Kevin…

Boddika & Joy Orbision – ‘Swims’

Boddika and Joy O team up for ‘Swims’ a banging percussive club track and a…

Eleanor Friedberger – ‘My Mistakes’ (video)

Known as the lead singer in occasionally bonkers, sometimes brilliant, sometimes amazing brother and sister…

Album stream: Youth Lagoon – ‘The Year Of Hibernation’

Idaho-based Trevor Powers’ dreamy, brittle and emotive songs have been getting increased buzz on music…

Factory Floor
Factory Floor – ‘Two Different Ways’ (DFA single)

Pulsating, percussive, hypnotic and heaving, Factory Floor’s new single for DFA Records is a beast…

A video interview with DOOM @ RBMA, Madrid

This is great. DOOM sits down for an hour and 40 minute interview at Red…

Bleeding Knees Club – ‘Teenage Girls’ (video)

A silly song with a fun video by Alan Ortiz from Aussie Bleeding Knees Club’s…

Floating Points – ‘Sais’ (video)

A sonic 8-minute interlude from Floating Points set to live visuals by Will Hurt. From…

Futures Apart – ‘Night Flight’

New romantic indie-pop with an upbeat percussive twist from Wexford five-piece Futures Apart. These guys…

Washed Out – ‘Call It Off’

Washed Out’s debut album Within And Without was largely an overcooked and overproduced wish-wash of…