A new single drops from {Awayland} and with a pretty cool video also! See our review of their recent preview show in Whelans here.
Villagers – Nothing Arrived
Things to Do in Dublin – 19th – 25th November
Another good week ahead, with a few gems out there. I’m looking forward to the Yellow Wallpaper in the Project Arts, and The Dirty Three on Friday! Art – Eithne Jordan’s new […]
Christopher Owens – Lysandre’s Theme
Girls are no more! The band, not the fairer sex, obviously. Girls snuck into my top ten albums of last year at number 10, but it seems that’ll be their last appearance. […]
Geotic Minimal / Ambient music project of Will Wiesenfeld
Will Wiesenfeld is the man behind Baths and a rather excellent electronic musician who we have featured on NMWH before. I recently discoverd a side project of Wiesenfeld’s called Geotic which as the […]
Things to Do in Dublin – 12th – 18th November
So, what’s new in town then? Not a bad week actually, with a few good gigs in Bon Iver tonight and the Villagers, The Poor Mouth in the Project and Eithne Jordan’s […]
Girl Band – The Grand Social – Review
They may have taken their sweet time setting up after support band Tandem Felix finished, but once all-male Dublin 4-piece Girl Band finally took to the stage, they played hard, fast and loud […]
Richie (Jape) Egan’s Black Abbott – Free Download
With the following words, Richie dropped this onto Soundcloud… “i always wanted to try to write and record an album in a day or so – this week i gave it a […]
Ladyhawke – The Academy – Review
I thought I wasn’t very familiar with Ladyhawke’s music but, as she worked her way through her set tonight (Nov 6th), it became clear that I was far more familiar than I initially realised! […]
Deep Sea Diver
Heard about these guys from Dan Phelps from the Modular Project. He’s playing live with them this month. He hangs around with some good people! They sound interesting enough, so check them […]
Days like these – Van Morrison – An Explanation!
I’ve just listened to a football commentator say about Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen who inadvertently set up United’s first goal, that ‘His Mama told him, there’d be days like these”. Ok, I’m […]
Riptide Movement hit the Big TIme
Last time I saw the Riptide Movement was in Crawdaddy, and to be honest it doesn’t feel that long ago! Ok, the venue has since closed, so it must be a couple […]
Donal Dineen on 2FM
Ok, I’ve been pretty critical of 2FM in the past, but someone in there has their head screwed on, as they’re letting Donal back on the airwaves with ” an 8 week series […]
Rebekka Karijord – Use my body while it’s still young
Norwegian born Rebekka Karijord has just released her new album “We become ourselves”, with a taster from it below in the form of “Use my body while it’s still young”. Below is […]
Mark Eitzel sells his soul…
Here’s another sad attempt from Mark Eitzel to hit the big time, with his discussions with Grace Zabriskie and Neil Hamburger. Mark and Neil Hamburger can be found here (thanks for the […]
Things to Do in Dublin – 22nd – 28th Oct
While it’s not actually Halloween until sometime next week (Wednesday), as this is the weekend before, we get all the good shit! Cool huh? Well, maybe we’ll regret it next week, but […]
Shay Fogarty – Miles Wide Across – Leaves
This has been floating around in my inbox for a while, and eventually got around to listening to it, and was quite impressed. It’s from Wicklow based artist Shay Fogarty, under the […]
Music Documentary Festival @ The Lighthouse Cinema – 19th – 21st Oct
Judging on the rain that continues to fall, this could be a weekend for the Cinema, and the Lighthouse Cinema has a mini festival of music documentaries filled with delights! There’s a […]
Mark Kozelek and the Roots – Jimmy Fallon
Mark Kozelek and the Roots (?) play Mistress on Jimmy Fallon. There’s also a version of the wonderfully named ‘The Moderately Talented Yet Attractive Young Woman vs the Exceptionally Talented Yet Not […]
Things to Do in Dublin – 15th – 21st Oct
A moment silence for the Theatre festival, sigh, so we’ve another year to wait for the madness to begin again, but what is there to occupy us for the next seven days. […]
Premiere: Efterklang Mixtape
Lots of good mixtapes from Under the Radar magazine here, and you can download most of ’em for free too, which is kinda cool. Efterklang is the most recent one, and you […]
Ellie Goulding – Halcyon – Album Review
I was really looking forward to hearing Ellie Goulding’s sophomore effort. Not because I loved her first album exactly but because I randomly came across the new lead single, ‘Anything Could Happen’, […]
Patrick Wolf – Sundark and Riverlight – Review
Ok, so I’ve always had a bit of soft spot for Patrick Wolf. I’ve always liked his strong eye for visuals and his ability to jump between – and mix-up – genres […]
Caribou’s Dan Snaith’s Side Project – Daphni – JIAOLONG
What does Dan Snaith do when he’s taking a break from Caribou? Find out below! This is his new project Daphni, which is recorded on a modular synth that Dan (supposedly) built […]
Record – Dylan Tighe – New Theatre – Review
Record is another unusual body of work, described by writer/ singer/ guitarist and actor (That’s a heck of a lot of slashes) Dylan Tighe as a ‘project’, as not only is it […]
Josh (Spain) Haden’s new solo project – Dead Sea Scrolls
My soft spot for Josh Haden’s music goes back to one song ‘Every time I try’, which became the soundtrack to a summer in Sydney, Australia. The wonderful Triple J radio station […]
HWCH 2012 Review – Thursday 4th October
After getting over the feeling of major déjà-vu as I viewed the list of bands playing this year, I decided to try and go along to the first night of Hard Working […]
Sufjan Stevens knows Christmas!
Remember that crazy guy who released a five e.p. Christmas box set a few years ago? Yep, he’s at it again! Another five e.p’s will be on their way called ‘Silver & […]
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – ‘ALLELUJAH! DON’T BEND! ASCEND!
These are the facts (well, as I see them anyway). It’s out on the 15th of October. It only has four songs! Tracklist 1. MLADIC 2. THEIR HELICOPTERS’ SING 3. WE DRIFT […]
First Listen: Flying Lotus, ‘Until The Quiet Comes’
Listen to the new Flying Lotus album “Until The Quiet Comes” courtesy of NPR.
No More Workhorse 