Indie, Rock & Alternative

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…

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,…