Watch the space-set youthful video.
Lana Del Rey has released four albums thus far but has claimed with the release of her new song ‘Love’ that, album number five will be the first “for the fans,” and “and about where I hope we are all headed.” It’s uncharacteristically hopeful for a singer known for luxuriating in faded glamour and summer… Read more »
Posted on February 20th, 2017
A six-track introduction to the Dublin artist.
As featured here last year with the opening track ‘Running’, Caz9 is a new Irish electro-pop artist who just dropped her debut EP Phase II. Check out the six-track release here, the highlights of which are ‘Everywhere’, the aquatic synth-pop of ‘Want To Wake’ and the lead track.
Posted on February 15th, 2017
Kildare duo make further moves to the future.
Tebi Rex are Matt O’Baoill and Max Zanga from Maynooth, Kildare whose styles take in pop, hip-hop and dance as part of its sound. They were introduced with the charming yet not-quite-there ‘Black Enough’. ‘Everything You Say Is A Poem’ is a more confident outing, a song that mixes low-end rap production and melodic pop… Read more »
Posted on February 13th, 2017
The band play play Nialler9 and PRS For Music's Output showcase in Belfast next Thursday 16th.
Belfast electro-pop duo New Portals are making some of the brightest music in their field in Ireland right now and they’ve just announced a new EP called Stereo, due out on March 10th, to followup singles like ‘Cage’, ‘Winterskin’, ‘Groove Boy’ and ‘Do It Right’. ‘Stereo’ packs an EDM-leaning dayglow punch and swings on the… Read more »
Posted on February 9th, 2017
Rising Irish singer drops some throwback garage and house-inspired vibes in Dublin city.
Dublin singer Soulé’s debut single ‘Love No More’ made a big enough impression locally that is was this week nominated for an Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year. And it’s easy to hear why. Soulé is one of the most promising new artists in the soul, R&B and pop sphere in Ireland and… Read more »
Posted on February 3rd, 2017
Surprise! With a brighter sound, Valerie Teicher has a debut album out in March.
Argentinian-born NYC-based singer Valerie Teicher aka Tei Shi was an artist with some momentum a few years ago until she appeared to fall off the face of the earth. But as often happens, she was probably off having the funs somewhere (or having extreme anxiety attacks). Now, her brand of noir-pop is back front and… Read more »
Posted on January 27th, 2017
Laoise performs her breakout song in Dublin's South Studios.
Galway artist Laoise is set to build on her Nirvana cover and the release of the brooding slow-moving electro-pop ‘You’ with the release of her debut EP Halfway shortly. Til then, please enjoy a live version of ‘You’ recorded with her live band at South Studios and shot by Éamonn McManus. The song now has… Read more »
Posted on January 27th, 2017
Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell's debut Autre Ne Veut-assisted album is coming on the Canadian label.
Overcoats, that is Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell left an impression on the Dublin music scene with their harmonious folk music two summers ago. Since then, the former college roomies have been writing, recording and playing live, and now there is a debut album called Young to be released on Arts & Crafts label (home… Read more »
Posted on January 25th, 2017
The band's seventh album Silver Eye is due in March and features The Haxan Cloak.
Goldfrapp just announced that their seventh studio album Silver Eye arrives on March 31st on Mute Records. Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory’s longstanding creative relationship continues to strive forward with new single ‘Anymore’, an electronic song with Goldfrapp’s pop sensibilities to the fore. Silver Eye is the followup to 2013’s Tales Of Us and it… Read more »
Posted on January 23rd, 2017
The rising 22 year-old US artist continues to impress.
Hotly-tipped 22-year-old singer, producer and musician Maggie Rogers has dropped a third song from her debut EP Now That The Light Is Fading. ‘On + Off’ was first premiered last night as BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record. After ‘Alaska’ and ‘Dog Years’, it suggests Rogers’ Pharrell-approved ascension will be fruitful, ‘On + Off’ is classy… Read more »
Posted on January 17th, 2017
Totally drippy and totally awesome.
Last year, Justin Bieber’s songs were reimagined as drippy ’80s ballads by Tronicbox. Now, Glasgow-based Saint-Laurent followed his lead and did the same thing to both the song and video for Calvin Harris and Rihanna’s ‘This Is What You Came For’. Mega. Original for comparison:
Posted on January 10th, 2017
As seen at Before the Dawn, which gets an album release this Friday.
To accompany the live single of ‘And Dream Of Sheep’, originally recorded on Hounds Of Love in 1985 and performed at Kate Bush’s 22 concert run in London of Before The Dawn, which is released as on Friday as a triple album. This film was made Kate performed live in a huge water tank at… Read more »
Posted on November 21st, 2016
Toni Etherson and Mia Fitz collaborated on electronic funk pop debut.
Siights is a new duo formed by Toni Etherson and Mia Fitz, the former a chart songwriter from Scotland and the latter, a musician from Dublin who has played live with Hozier for the last two years. The pair decamped to LA recently to work on music together for other artists but and what they… Read more »
Posted on November 18th, 2016
Fans of Banks will dig this digital R&B debut.
Galway artist Laoise Ní Nualláin came to my attention with a downbeat electro pop cover of Nirvana’s Come As You Are earlier this year. Laoise’s debut EP Halfway is coming in January and ‘You’ the first single ‘You’ mixes Laoise’s flighty vocals with a brooding electronic pop low-end and touches of R&B and pop. Ní… Read more »
Posted on November 15th, 2016
Dublin duo are a bright antidote to current affairs.
Dublin duo Aoife McCann and Ellie McMahon’s Æ MAK burst onto the Dublin music scene with the colourful ‘I Can Feel It In My Bones’. The song’s exuberant pop harmony and rhythm stand out as much for their sound (influenced as they are by Merrill Garbus’ Tune-Yards and jazz singer Anita O’Day) as their theatrical… Read more »
Posted on November 14th, 2016
33 acts added to Longitude Festival including Sigrid, Playboi Carti, Rejjie Snow, Kojaque, Le Boom, Mango x Mathman…
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