Indie, Rock & Alternative

Intro: Go Wolf – Kitsuné-approved Belfast indie-disco pop

Having a track featured on a series which in the past has featured the likes…

Somadrone – The First Wave (album premiere)

Neil O’Connor’s fourth album as Somadrone feels like his most complete body of work yet.…

Rollers/Sparkers – ‘Slit Fricative’

Rollers/Sparkers haven’t done anything in five years but that’s about to change, the Dublin experimental…

Ghost Maps – The Ocean From The River (album premiere)

As a member of Halfset, Jeff Martin is no stranger to intricately constructed arrangements. It’s…

Metronomy – ‘I’m Aquarius’

Metronomy return with a dapper new single ‘I’m Aquarius’ this week and a first listen…

Intro: Winter Aid – Irish music blogger releases debut EP

It is eight years to the day since I first wrote about music on Nialler9,…

Bleeding Heart Pigeons – ‘Visiting Myself In Hospital’

About this time last year, I wrote about Bleeding Heart Pigeons, three Limerick teens making music…

Hunk – ‘Precipice’

Hunk are Niamh Hegarty, Sundara O’Higgins, a rock band who released their debut fuzzy lo-fi…

Patrick Kelleher – ‘Put Out The Lights & Cry’ (video premiere)

Dublin experimental ghost / slacker / disco / pop musician Patrick Kelleher is back with…

Mister Goodnite – Songs About Love And Lack Thereof

The plan for a Halloween mix was culled by the ghouls of responsibility and the…

Know your bands: Mt Wolf vs. Wolf Alice

A quick primer for those like me who may have been encountering some confusion between…

Intro: Ghost Maps – Halfset’s Jeff Martin’s new project

Instrumental Dublin band Halfset are by now, a band pretty much considered defunct and with…

Aoife Underwater – ‘You Didn’t Break’

Here’s a musician who I featured three years back who went quiet shortly afterwards. The…

Alarmist – ‘Bunda Internacionale’

Dublin band Alarmist have been quiet since last year’s live dates. The band’s debut EP…

Spies – ‘November Sun’

Dublin rock band Spies received a hige amount of attention for their superb single ‘Distant…

We Cut Corners – ‘YKK’

We Cut Corners are one of five Irish bands hitting NYC for CMJ and to…

New music: Holychild, Squarehead & Movement

Every Friday, I’ll publish my new tracks and artist picks of the week as featured…

Intro: Lyttet – softly glowing atmospheric Kildare duo

Lyttet is a new project from Kildare musicians Claire Nicole and Peadar Kearney which took…

Ménage à Trois – ‘White Noise’

Manchester trio band Ménage à Trois make music “from a place of love”, the centre…

Sea Pinks – ‘An Exploded View’

Sea Pinks is Neil Brogan’s main concern now that he’s stepped away from Girls Names.…