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Dublin edit label Orange Tree Edits releases 002, hear Robbie Kitt’s edit

New Dublin edit label Orange Tree Edits released their first 12″ in January and it…

Premiere: Winter Aid – ‘The Night is an Ocean’


It was no major surprise that someone who was thoughtful in writing about music as…

Premiere: Ben Bix & Feather – ‘Thirsty’

Frequent live collaborators Ben Bix (Meltybrains?) and Feather have teamed up on a new six-track…

Dublin R&B newcomer Erica Cody drops ‘Addicted’

Erica Cody is a Dublin singer/songwriter and producer who has been writing songs since she…

Premiere: Slow Riot add a tumult of noise to their sound on ‘Pink December’

Limerick alt-rock trio Slow Riot drop a new single on Monday and here is the…

Pleasure Beach build a colossal wall of sound on new song ‘Burning Up’

It’s been too long since we heard some new music from Belfast band Pleasure Beach,…

Premiere: Joshua Burnside – ‘Tunnels Pt.2’

The Northern Irish alt-folk singer-songwriter Joshua Burnside has a new album forthcoming on Quiet Arch…

Premiere: Kid Karate return with ‘No Way’

Kid Karate dropped a debut album last year but the sense that there was a…

Premiere: For Foresters address the shock of parental sickness on ‘Towels’

For Foresters are a Donegal/Dublin band who impressed me last year with the live video…

Listen to The 202s new single ‘Up In Thin Air’

Six years after the release of their debut album which drew favourable reviews and comparisons…

First Listen: Pavel Dovgal’s electronic jazz-inspired LP The Aura

Russian-born electronic producer Pavel Dovgal’s new album The Aura comes out on Friday on Project…

White Collar Boy – ‘To Find Love When You’re Down’

Dublin electronic duo White Collar Boy, Mark Cummins and Gavin White, have a new EP…

First Listen: Magic Pockets – Volcano of The Bleeding Skies

Ruadhan O’Meara’s Magic Pockets project indulges the Dubliner’s love of instrumental synthesizer-based music with descriptors…

Premiere: Toofools deliver glittering disco-funk & soul on ‘Touch’

In a short time, TooFools, a band brought to us by Lorcan O’Dwyer, Steven McCann…

Premiere: Orchid Collective’s hushed folk-rock debut EP Courage

One of the best sets I saw at Hard Working Class Heroes earlier this month…

First Listen: Booka Brass – Chilled Milk

Since appearing on the live scene a few years ago, Booka Brass have built a…

Watch Ciaran Lavery’s new video for ‘Okkervil River’

Ciaran Lavery’s Let Bad In is one of the finest Irish albums of the year…

First listen: Bitch Falcon – ‘Clutch’

In between sporadic gigs around Ireland, Bitch Falcon have spent much of the last year…

Replete – ‘Government Legislation (Feat. Bini)’

The Cork-based Kilkenny producer Replete, Pete Lawlor, last graced this site in 2015 on a…

Ensemble Ériu – ‘The Tempest’

Ensemble Ériu released one of the most exciting albums of contemporary trad music in recent…