Indie, Rock & Alternative

Bitch Falcon – ‘Syncope’

Delving deeper into the hard rock sludge and coming out stronger, Bitch Falcon’s new single…

Broken Social Scene are back with a new single

Broken Social Scene are back with their first song in seven years, the first since…

Future Islands – ‘Cave’

Following on from ‘Ran’, Future Islands return with their signature bass-lead synth rhythm on ‘Cave’…

Album premiere: Marlene Enright – Placemats And Second Cuts

Marlene Enright is a Cork singer and songwriter who, when not playing with The Hard…

Fiction Peaks – ‘Before the End’

Every now and again, the Dublin five-piece band Fiction Peaks pop up with a song…

Paddy Hanna delves deeper into orchestral classic pop on ‘Bad Boys’

For a musician who started out in the toy-bashing indie pop band Grand Pocket Orchestra,…

Hear the opening song from Alt-J’s new album Relaxer – ‘3WW’

After teasing last week and I speculated, Alt-J released their first new song from their…

Tinder gave us Bad Sea, the duo give us ‘Tell Me (What I Mean)’

Bad Sea, The Dublin duo who met and formed a band after talking on Tinder…

Premiere: An album of art-pop rock from Party Fears

The Berlin-based band Party Fears are the brainchild of Maggie Devlin. She started the Party…

Come On Live Long release new song ‘Bones To Break’

Come On Live Long are re-emerging. Taking their time in following up their debut album,…

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,…

No Monster Club releasing the NMC Encyclopedia this year

Bobby Aherne aka No Monster Club is back with his lo-fi indie project No Monster…

Hear new Irish artist Outsider, as featured on US TV show Shadow Hunters last night

Outsider is an Irish multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter from Galway who has found some immediate…

Orchid Collective – ‘Waited On The Sun’

The Dublin band Orchid Collective are ready to follow up up their debut EP of…

Premiere: Dublin math rock band Yonen have a crazy good animated music video for ‘Tokyo’

The celestial x math-rock of new Dublin four-piece Yonen has found the perfect visual bedfellow…

Future Islands are back with a new chest-beating single – ‘Ran’

Future Islands play Iveagh Gardens this summer. Usually when a band trods back on the…

Download a 21-track Irish math-rock compilation from Feckin’ Bahamas

Fecking Bahamas is a website that specialises in math rock, cataloguing and highlight the bands…

Premiere: Joshua Burnside – ‘Tunnels Pt.2’

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

Watch Bad Sea’s new video for ‘Solid Air’

Bad Sea‘s ‘Solid Air’ was one of the best songs from a new Irish band…