Forbidden Fruit early bird tickets on sale Monday

Forbidden Fruit will be back in 2014 for sure as tickets go on sale on…

HMV to reopen on Grafton Street in Dublin

HMV closed on Grafton Street last year but since then, new owners Hilco Capital have…

Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival includes Wild Beasts, Fuck Buttons, De La Soul, Rubberbandits…

Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival takes place across Belfast from May 1st to 11th and some…

New Whelan’s club night Seven Quarters to give out limited unreleased Irish 7″ to audience

Those old enough may remember the Road Relish singles club, a series of limited 7″…

Sea Sessions announces first bands for 2014

Sea Sessions has announced their first 10% of bands for 2014’s lineup to take place…

Massive Attack, Rudimental, Son Lux, Banks, Parquet Courts & more added to Longitude Festival

The new names are : Massive Attack , Rudimental, The 1975, Banks, Parquet Courts, Krystal…

Hozier gig announced for Whelan’s this Thursday at short notice

You’ve no doubt heard the lead track from Hozier’s From Eden EP out on March…

Fritz Kalkbrenner & more added to Barn Dance VII

Barn Dance VII, the Good Friday BYOB party that takes place in a secret location…

Gig news: Shit Robot vs. The Juan Maclean, Real Estate, Mutual Benefit, Angel Haze, Greenhouse, Owen Pallett and more

Real Estate play The Workman’s Club on May 27th. Tickets are €15 plus fee on…

Listen to a tUnE-YaRdS’ new album megamix

Exciting news for a Monday, tUnE-YaRdS‘ Merrill Garbus announced her new album today on her…

Congratulations to Villagers for winning the Meteor Choice Music Prize 2013

Congratulations to Villagers for winning the Irish album of the year prize 2013 last night…

Evian Christ & Mssingno make Irish debuts at Hidden Agenda

Well this one has been long time coming, Tri Angle Records producer and Yeezus collaborator…

Body&Soul Festival first names: Goldfrapp, Caribou, Mount Kimbie, Darkside, John Grant…

Goldfrapp, Caribou, John Grant, Darkside, Jon Hopkins, Mount Kimbie, Buraka Som Sistema, Nick Waterhouse, East…

Wye Oak are playing The Sugar Club

Wye Oak, Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack, are in Dublin town on Saturday 14th of…

Paul Noonan to release album of duets with Joan as Policewoman, Martha Wainwright, Julia Stone, Amy Milan & more

Paul Noonan will take a break from Bell X1 with a new project called Printer…

J Dilla’s Donuts is the subject of a 33⅓ book

The 33 1/3 books are a series of small books about seminal and important albums,…

More grants bother as Arts Council department head’s mother awarded grant funds

UPDATE: The Arts Council is reviewing “conflict of interest procedures” in light of last week’s…

Youbloom Festival returns to Dublin this summer & features Alan McGee

It started as a song contest in 2010 and came to Dublin for a weekend…

Watch Synth Eastwood’s crowd-sourced video from New Year’s Thieves

At the recent Nialler9/Happenings VisitDublin event New Year’s Thieves, Synth Eastwood cajoled some of the…

Bodytonic announce The Beatyard events for May

The biannual Beatyard festival chartered by Bodytonic is back for its 8th edition from April…