Indie, Rock & Alternative
Skelocrats will return with a new album Bella Bella later this month with a stronger…
Tame Impala have been one of those bands I just didn’t get when they surged…
Clarence Clarity’s No Now album (streaming on Soundcloud) is a cacophonous toys-out-of-the-pram sonic vista, ever-changing,…
Leo Drezden’s debut album Multi-Moment is a colourful ride through post-rock, electronic, jazz and prog.…
There’s much nodding enjoyment to be had from Dublin band Tandem Felix’s new song ‘Nothing…
Edward F Butler impressed me with his previous single ‘Running From Fears’, and here we…
Cork-band The Hard Ground have released some quality music over three EPs in the last…
If ‘Empty Nesters’ was a alt-rock curveball, ‘Buffalo’ resets the mood from a Pavement-style track…
Mullingar’s The Academic were one of the best live bands I saw last year on…
Sometimes it’s best to wipe a clean slate and start anew. Kool Thing, the Berlin-based…
Dublin indie-rock band Spies have a new EP on the way entitled Sea Creature due…
Quet Arch is a new label from the people behind Champion Sound Recordings for non-electronic…
The four-piece instrumental Dublin band Alarmist are back with some new music to follow up…
Godspeed You! Black Emperor are playing Vicar Street in April but it won’t be a…
Wexford songwriter Justin Cullen released Slow Season, his debut album as Frankenstein Bolts last year.…
I introduced the music of Algiers, an Atlanta “doom soul trio” here three years ago…
After previewing their crescendo-reaching intricate new single ‘Glacier’, Cloud Castle Lake have revealed the song’s…
If nearly-incoherent reverbed noise-rock that nods to a lo-fi garage past and sounds like it…
The problem with penning a towering achievement of a song like ‘Hold On’, a catchy…
The old Go! Team lo-fi rattle is in full-effect on ‘Blowtorch’ as if the rhythm…