Indie, Rock & Alternative

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…

Arcade Fire just dropped a new song featuring Mavis Staples – ‘I Give You Power’

As was rumoured this week, Arcade Fire just dropped a brand new song to coincide…

Body & Soul favourites Jambinai release the slow moving beautiful ‘Connection’

The South Korean band Jambinai came to my attention when they played Body&Soul festival last…

All of The Redneck Manifesto albums are now on streaming services

TRM are back.  Not only are their live dates around Ireland next month but there’s…

HAWK confront a late-night tailgater on ‘Take It Away’

London-based band HAWK have released a new song inspired by Galway vocalist Julie Hawk’s friend…

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…

Listen to Enemies’ final album Valuables

It’s not easy to call time on a project that you’re invested in and love,…

Premiere: Overhead, The Albatross – ‘Our Youth Our Younger’

Ahead of their biggest Dublin show yet tomorrow night in Vicar Street (with support from…

Introducing: St. Francis Hotel – Irish London production duo making slick grooves

St. Francis Hotel are a new Irish act/producers based in London who have released three…

Watch this priest wrestle with devotion in the video for Naoise Roo’s ‘Whore’

Dublin singer-songwriter Naoise Roo’s new single ‘Whore’ follows in the tradition of PJ Harvey in…

Promising alternative band The Notas are back with ‘Sick in Sin’

Three years on from The Notas’ second EP, it turns out the Dublin band had…

Belfast’s New Portals release their most commanding song yet – ‘Winterskin’

Ruth and Mike Aicken aka New Portals have made a fine line of electro-pop songs…

The xx release new song ‘On Hold’ which samples Hall & Oates

Earlier this week, the xx’s new album details leaked out via Shazam. Well, surprise, we…

Color//Sound & Raglans member Brendan McGlynn shares languid solo project Lovr

Brendan McGlynn is the former singer of Color//Sound and the current guitarist of the Raglans.…

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…

Watch Slow Riot’s stylish & dystopian video for ‘Absent Dreams’

Limerick alt-rock band Slow Riot have just signed a deal with UK label Killing Moon,…

First Listen: Swords – Tidal Waves

Diane Anglim (vocals & piano), Jarlath Canning (bass, guitars & synth) and Ian Frawley (drums)…

Sorcha Richardson ruin and romance-featuring ‘Ruin Your Night’

Irish-born New York-based talent Sorcha Richardson is back releasing music into the world. Check out…

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…