Indie, Rock & Alternative

Premiere: Listen to the excellent new single from Come On Live Long

Come On Live Long’s Mender EP was impressive in its sure identity in for a…

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down feat. Joanna Newsom – ‘Kindness Be Conceived’

The new album from Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, We The Common is…

Daughter – ‘Still’ (video)

Daughter played their debut Irish gig on Saturday night. Almost a year ago, the Daughter…

New music: Snakadaktal, Bebe Black, Youth Lagoon & Mozart’s Sister

Every Friday, four new music picks selected from music blogs are published as part of…

Cymbals – ‘The Natural World’

Cymbals just keep going from strength to strength. Like ‘Like An Animal’ before it, ‘The…

Amateur Best – ‘In Time’

Amateur Best’s ‘Too Much’ (below) sneaked its way into my top 100 songs of the…

Farewell J.R. – ‘Night Wolves’

Farewell J.R.’s musical headquarters is in Cambridge, England care of Nick Rayner but it has…

Sounds Of System Breakdown – ‘Mayfly’

I’ve heard a few bits and pieces from Sounds Of System Breakdown’s forthcoming album Nomad,…

And So I Watch You From Afar – ‘Like a Mouse’

Surprise! Here’s a nice early Christmas present. A taster of And So I Watch You…

Watch Villagers’ Conor O’Brien performs ‘My Lighthouse’ at Young Hearts Run Free

Villagers‘ Conor O’Brien was the guest at We Love Yule last Saturday night, the Young…

Dutch Uncles – ‘Flexxin’

Ooh, so Dutch Uncles 2013 album Out Of Touch In The Wild was already a…

Listen to the Skelocrats new Hot Yoga EP

Earlier this year, A supergroup of Dublin-based Popical-related musicians  calling themselves Skelocrats impressed many with their…

INTRO: Bleeding Heart Pigeons – Limerick teens with expansive ambition

The name Bleeding Heart Pigeons was a bit of a misnomer for me. It was…

HUNK! – ‘Dupe’

HUNK! are a new band based in Dublin featuring Niamh Hegarty, Sundara O’Higgins and Gerard…

The #1s – ‘He’s Too Good For Everyone Else But He’s Not Good Enough For You’

A fun and cheap animated video for a lo-fi garage pop thrill from Dublin’s The…

Honningbarna – ‘Offerdans’

If you’ve seen this band on their previous two trips here, you’ll know. Don’t sleep…

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Alt-J feat. Mountain Man – ‘Buffalo’

Oh joy. A brand new track from Alt-J from the soundtrack to David O’ Russell’s…

Watch Twinkranes perform two new songs in their Blackpitts rehearsal space

Twinkranes released a debut album Spektrumtheatresnakes, in 2009 but they pop up here and there…

Battlekat – ‘Rituals That Make The Rain Fall’

Copenhagen’s Battlekat, who were calling themselves the incorrigible Just A Number 05272011 for a while,…

EatenbyBears – ‘Your Pet Is Dead’

The four guys in EatenbyBears have received rightful attention thanks to the uber-catchy ‘Simple As…