The Kerry singer escapes from her past to the Pacific to sip cocktails.
The Kerry musician and singer, Ruth is an new artist growing in stature with every song released. With sophisticated pop that recalls Bond themes on ‘Queen Of The Con’, Ruth’s newest song ‘Off My Mind’, produced by Michael Heffernan and mastered by Steffen Müller, amps up the drama and production on a song that is… Read more »
Posted on May 4th, 2017
Urgent earworm pop from the rising Irish/Scottish duo.
Toni Etherson and Mia Fitz ak Siights came together during songwriting sessions for other artists. As it happens, they decided to keep their pop-spun mix of electronic, funk and disco music for themselves and they shared ‘Dance’ late last year. With the weather turning good, ‘Siights have shared their debut single proper on Nialler9 as… Read more »
Posted on May 2nd, 2017
Summer in a video and song.
WOB! are a live drum’n’bass electronic band from Dublin (who want to make you ‘Move’) who for their latest track have hooked up with upcoming R&B singer Erica Cody (as featured here) on ‘Higher’, a song that heralds the start of summer. Check out the extra summery video for the song by Crooked Gentlemen.
Posted on May 2nd, 2017
Plus a track-by-track from the man himself.
Daithí’s new EP Holiday Home features 5 tracks of electronic pop constructed with elements drawn from the real world. Recorded sounds of the west of Ireland, the songs of motion and colour were made in the far flung parts of the country. Hooking up with Sinead White on two tracks and Elaine Mai on another,… Read more »
Posted on April 28th, 2017
Second album Something To Tell You arrives on July 7.
Almost a year later than promised, Haim are back with news of their second album Something To Tell You on July 7th through Polydor. Introducing the second album, is a Paul Thomas Anderson-directed live studio video with the the Haim sisters Este, Danielle and Alana. The album was recorded with Ariel Rechtshaid and worked with… Read more »
Posted on April 27th, 2017
The rising Dublin artist drops her third single.
Dublin artist Soulé follows up her impactful first two singles ‘Love No More’ and ‘Good Life’ today, with ‘Troublemaker’. The Diffusion Lab-produced track has a Mura Masa-style electronic pop feel and comes with artwork with Soulé wielding a baseball bat. No messing. It’s out now on Streaming services. The song was added to the Nialler9… Read more »
Posted on April 14th, 2017
An intro to an emerging talent.
Check out this new Dublin-based singer-songwriter ZALI who dropped her debut single ‘Can’t Stop’ last week. The song is a sophisticated R&B pop tune from a new talent with production by Hong Kong producer L’Homie. It was recorded in London with vocal production and engineering by renowned Grammy-nominated producer and songwriter Isra Lohata (Wizzy Wow)…. Read more »
Posted on April 5th, 2017
The Dublin-based duo have big ambitions for sound and vision.
The Dublin-based art pop duo of Aoife McCann and Ellie McMahon aka Æ MAK have demonstrated an interest in exploring performance, visual and dance to augment their bright music style. For their new single ‘I Walk’, Æ MAK sound at their most creative on a song about “self-belief and determination,” and the duo worked with… Read more »
Posted on April 3rd, 2017
The Irish singer-songwriter has made a leap with his new song.
Dermot Kennedy is a young folk singer-songwriter who has been making some industry noise in the last year. Live, he has supported the likes of Glen Hansard and James Vincent McMorrow and Spotify streams of last year’s ‘After Rain’, a woodsy romantic folk pop number is now well over 19 million streams. Thus far, his… Read more »
Posted on March 31st, 2017
The UK duo drop a new layered pop song.
Josephine Vander Gucht and Anthony West, aka Oh Wonder have trailed their second record with a new single called ‘Ultralife’. The song is a more pop and layered take on the band’s super melodic sound and it moves away from the minimalism that defined their early work. It was like their debut, entirely written, recorded… Read more »
Posted on March 31st, 2017
A New EP and tour dates announced for the coming weeks.
Daithí is back with a new tune rom his upcoming Holiday Home EP, a release which has given us the grade A electronic pop banger ‘Falling For You’ with Sinead White. The EP was recorded in houses and holiday homes in islands like Achill and Valentia and the last track had some bells and sea… Read more »
Posted on March 22nd, 2017
She plays Young Blood at NCH next week.
I’ve been keeping an eye on Dublin singer-songwriter Katie Laffan ever since her EP of pop funk a couple of years ago. Katie has been taking her time to develop her craft and live show, which you can next hear at St. Patrick’s Festival’s Young Blood at the National Concert Hall (win tickets here) New… Read more »
Posted on March 9th, 2017
The Irish singer is on the up.
Laoise, the rising Galway electro pop artist, has released one standout track in ‘You’ so far. That debut track received over 175k plays on Spotify, a fact that was celebrated with a live video. The follow-up song ‘Halfway’, Laoise told Notion: I wrote ‘Halfway’ about two years ago during a time when I wasn’t paying… Read more »
Posted on March 6th, 2017
Stevie G and Ian Ring's new single is out today.
DJ Stevie G and Ian Ring (formerly of Young Wonder)’s AboveDat project has released a few tracks which move between R&B and electronic music like ‘Dance On’, ‘Addicted’ and their Shaun Escoffery remix. ‘Better’ is their new low-end thriving electronic house-pop single with pitched silky vocals.
Posted on March 3rd, 2017
Well that was unexpected.
Frank Ocean’s first bit of Post-Blonde music is a collaboration with Scottish superstar DJ Calvin Harris? And it features the ‘Bad And Boujee’ Migos? Well that was unexpected. ‘Slide’ is a laidback summery pop jam with a funky bassline. It’s pretty good.
Posted on February 24th, 2017
33 acts added to Longitude Festival including Sigrid, Playboi Carti, Rejjie Snow, Kojaque, Le Boom, Mango x Mathman…
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The Beastie Boys memoir to include 592 pages, rare photos, illustrations, a cookbook, a graphic novel, mixtape playlists, guest contributors and more
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All Together Now announce comedy lineup including Tommy Tiernan, The Viper, Aindrias De Staic and many more
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9 of the best boutique festivals happening around Europe this summer
Gruff Rhys announces Irish tour which includes a show at The Button Factory
