Indie, Rock & Alternative

Queens of the Stone Age for Dublin show; hear new track

Queens Of The Stone Age have announced their Irish return as part of the Villains…

The Jimmy Cake share new music from new LP Tough Love

Ahead of its full physical and digital release on Cork-based weirdo boutique Penske Recordings, The…

Squarehead are back with ‘Waves’

After contributing to a worthy compilation along with Mac DeMarco and Oh Boland last week,…

Wolf Alice announce new album with single ‘Yuk Foo’ along with Dublin & Belfast gigs

Wolf Alice have announced their new album Visions of A Life (on 29 September via…

Listen to All Tvvins & James Vincent McMorrow collaborate on ‘Alone Together’

All Tvvins have followed up their debut album IIVV with a special collaborative single with…

First Listen: Sea Pinks – Watercourse

Sea Pinks, the Belfast guitar pop trio spearheaded by Neil Brogan, on guitar and vocals,…

Beauty Sleep go ‘All In’

Fresh from The Great Escape, The Belfast three piece Beauty Sleep return with a new…

The Fontaines’ channel Dublin into their rock’n’roll single Liberty Belle

The Fontaines are a Dublin band who are unmistakably Dublin. Captured outside the Parliament Street…

Count Vaseline addresses this Russia thing

Remember when Russia used to be the mortal enemy of the west and now US…

Silverbacks channel slacker Pavement-esque pop on debut Sink The Fat Moon EP

Silverbacks are a new Dublin-based band whose music is in the field of slacker indie…

Silences – ‘Red Dress’

Armagh band Silences last caught my attention with the dynamic song ‘There’s A Wolf’ last…

LCD Soundsystem look in the mirror & get on with it on ‘Call The Police’ & ‘American Dream’

Is there any way two new songs, even in abrupt fashion, could live up to…

Come On Live Long release Albert Hooi-directed dance video ‘In The Still’

Come On Live Long are set to release their second album In The Still on…

Premiere: The Hot Sprockets – ‘Right Spots’

Dublin soul rockers The Hot Sprockets have returned with a new single called ‘Right Spots’,…

Autre Monde – ‘New Recruit’

Why just this day last week, I featured a sturdy track from Autre Monde, aband…

We, the Oceanographers – ‘I Can’t Give You Both’

Dundalk band We, the Oceanographers are off to Toronto for Canadian Music Week next week…

Autre Monde are a new band formed by Paddy Hanna & members of Skelocrats, No Monster Club & Ginnels

Autre Monde are a new band formed from a lot of Dublin-based indie pop bands…

Come On Live Long announce new album & share ‘Sum Of Its Parts’

It was a pleasure to have Come On Live Long play a rare live set…

Dublin band Beach return with the creeping ‘Bram Toker’

Dublin band Beach have so far released songs of disparate styles that could be psychedelic,…

Touts are the Derry punk band you want in your life

“A singer that can’t sing, a mod that can’t play bass and a drummer that…