Chromatic & Maija Sofia haunt The National War Memorial Gardens during performance of ‘The Gold Shoes’

Chromatic are an Irish film collective who specialise in capturing once-off, boutique live performances from…

Introducing: Newry 18-year-old Lauren Ann has the grunge pop smarts on ‘How It Works’

The North of Ireland has always been a hotbed of guitar and rock music, usually…

Bicep announce new album Isles & release new single ‘Apricots’

Bicep have announced a new album Isles, will be released on Ninja Tune on January…

15 new Irish songs you should hear this week

New music from Jehnova, Kynsy, JEAG, Alex Gough, USNA, Wyvern Lingo, Seba Safe, Rooue, Paddy Chambers, Lūna, Jar Jar jr, Mount Alaska, Autumns, A. Smyth Aural Air & more

Beastie Boys’ Ad-Rock took the piss with his Rolling Stones Greatest album list submission

Rolling Stone recently published its list of 500 greatest albums , updating it for 2020.…

It’s Ireland Music Week – an overview who’s playing and what’s happening at the online showcase & conference event

It’s Ireland Music Week and normally, that would mean spending much of the next seven…

Review: Denise Chaila – Go Bravely

The most buzzed Irish artist of 2020, Denise Chaila released not a debut album but…

Nialler9 Podcast: Róisín Murphy feels the machine

On this week’s pod we review the new album from the queen with her disco machine Róisín Murphy, focus on reasons to be cheerful and new songs from Romy, Ultraflex, Tune-Yards and a load of Irish artists on the collab.

Listen to volume 3 of A Litany of Failures feat. Silverbacks, Junk Drawer, Post Punk Podge, The Bonk, Problem Patterns, Careerist, Rising Damp & many more

What started as a split four-track EP with four bands Oh Boland, Junk Drawer, That…

First listen: Loah & Bantum – ‘NGLA’

The partnership of Irish Sierra Leonean singer-songwriter and Cork producer Ruairi Lynch AKA Bantum continues…

Watch CMAT’s eh, cowboy-themed video for ‘I Wanna Be A Cowboy, Baby!’

It was one of our tracks of the week and continues CMAT’s run of excellent…

Ordnance Survey releases album featuring Donal Lunny, Crash Ensemble & Lankum’s Cormac Mac Diarmada

Neil O’Connor has released a second collaborative album under the name Ordnance Survey today. The…

Orchid Collective return with the polished pop of ‘Thunder’

2018 was the last time we heard from the Dublin band Orchid Collective with their…

The xx’s Romy has dropped ‘Lifetime’, a solo dancefloor banger single

Romy Madley Croft of the xx has dropped a solo single called ‘Lifetime’. Like her…

Caleb Kunle releases the quietly triumphant song ‘Call Me Mad’

The London-based Irish-raised Nigerian artist Caleb Kunle is set to release an EP called Rose…

10 of our favourite new songs this week

Music from CMAT, Fatima Yamaha, Joji, Gadget & The Cloud, Fleet Foxes, Avalon Emerson, Clipping, Bonobo and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and more.

The FIFA 21 soundtrack features Biig Piig, Tame Impala, Dua Lipa, Park Hye Jin & more

The latest instalment of EA Sports’ soccer franchise FIFA 21 drops next week October 6th/9th…

Watch MuRli’s ‘Till The Wheels Fall Off’ video shot at Dalymount Park

There’s no more fitting club to host the video for MuRli’s ‘Till The Wheels Fall…

Nialler9 Podcast #106: Sufjan faces spiritual and societal struggles

Episode 106 of the Nialler9 Podcast finds us reviewing the ultra-long electronic hymnal album from Sufjan Stevens, discuss Autumn a lot and enthuse about Keanu Reeves classic film Speed.