Top 10 Albums of the Year – 2018 – by Morgan Quinn Another good year for music, and isn’t it always! I get very frustrated when people say it was a bad […]
Top 10 Albums of the Year – 2018 – Editor’s Choice
A Year in Music – 2018 – Cathal Cully (Girls Names)
A Year in Music – 2018 – Cathal Cully (Girls Names) by Killian Laher What are your favourite albums of 2018? Pendant – Make Me Know You Sweet Lesilie Winer + Jay […]
A Year in Music – 2018 – Patrick M Barrett (Hedge Schools)
A Year in Music 2018 – Patrick M Barrett (Hedge Schools) – by Killian Laher What are your favourite albums of 2018? Kathryn Joseph – From When I Wake The Want Is. […]
A Year in Music – 2018 – Paul Page (ex-Whipping Boy)
A Year in Music – 2018 – Paul Page (ex-Whipping Boy) – by Killian Laher What are your favourite albums of 2018? Kathryn Joseph’s ‘From When I Wake the Want Is’ was […]
A Year In Music – Niall McCann (Film Director)
A Year In Music – Niall McCann (Film Director) by Killian Laher Records of the year 2018 As usual I didn’t get to listen to as many records as I’d have wished […]
A Year in Music – 2018 – RM Hubbert
A Year in Music – 2018 – RM Hubbert – by Killian Laher What are your favourite albums of 2018? In no particular order : Bananas – Malcolm Middleton Daphne & Celeste […]
A Year in Music – 2018 – Mark Eitzel
A Year in Music – 2018 – Mark Eitzel by Killian Laher It’s been a while since we’ve been in touch. What have you been up to? Ah – I’ve been co-writing […]
A Year In Music – 2018 – Nadine O’Regan (Journalist)
A Year In Music – 2018 – Nadine O’Regan (Journalist) – Interview by Killian Laher What are your favourite albums of 2018? Tough question, but the albums I’ve returned to again and […]
Love Letter to Okkervil River
Love Letter to Okkervil River – by Thomas Slattery Written shortly after Okkervil River’s two recent dates in Ireland (12/10/18- Roisin Dubh, Galway & 13/10/18 – Grand Social, Dublin). One of the gigs […]
Hammock – Universalis – Album Review
Hammock – Universalis – Album Review by Killian Laher After the choral explorations of last year’s Mysterium, Hammock return with a fully instrumental album. This one is unremiittingly lovely. Early on in […]
Albums of the Year – 2018 – Killian Laher
Albums of the Year – 2018 – by Killian Laher Always a struggle to distil the year’s releases into a concise ranking of 10 albums, but here goes: 10. Yo La Tengo […]
Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert – Ghost Stories for Christmas – Album Review
Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert – Ghost Stories for Christmas – Album Review by Killian Laher After this year’s well-received Here Lies The Body album, Aidan Moffat and RM Hubbert enjoyed it […]
Live Music in Dublin – 10-12-18
Live Music in Dublin – 10-12-18 We’re in the run up to Christmas and every year, this means a lot of Irish acts returning home to play their local venues! It’s mainly […]
How I Found Neil Young
How I Found Neil Young – by Killian Laher Cooler people than me dropped Neil Young’s name into conversations involving the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. The extent of my Neil Young […]
Punch Brothers – National Concert Hall – Live Review 19-11-18
Punch Brothers – National Concert Hall – Live Review 19-11-18 – by Paula Wiseman The Punch Brothers were back in Dublin to play the final night of a three week long European […]
Jeff Tweedy – Warm – Album Review
Jeff Tweedy – Warm – Album Review by Killian Laher Maybe this should be titled: Jeff Tweedy goes back to his roots? This, his first fully-fledged solo album, is the most ‘country’ […]
Live Music in Dublin – 03-12-18
Live Music in Dublin – 03-12-18 We’re now firmly in December, which is not the best month for live music, but fear not as there are a few gems knocking around this […]
Federico Albanese – Papper Canister – 30/11/18 – Live Review
Federico Albanese – Papper Canister – 30/11/18 – Live Review Federico Albanese at the Pepper Canister Church, Dublin – Friday 30th Nov Federico Albanese is an Italian composer who lives in Berlin. […]
Hennessy Music Trail at Other Voices
Hennessy Music Trail at Other Voices – 30 Nov – 02 Dec With Other Voices starting today we thought we’d have a look at some of the artists performing as part of […]
Flasher – Constant Image – Album Review
Flasher – Constant Image – Album Review by Killian Laher The unfortunately named Flasher are making serious waves in their native Washington DC. The trio recently released their debut full-length album and […]
How I learned to Love Lloyd
How I learned to Love Lloyd – Lloyd Cole and the Commotions – Rattlesnakes by Killian Laher Lloyd Cole popped up in the mid-eighties at a time of bookish, literate guitar groups […]
Live Music in Dublin – 26-11-18
Live Music in Dublin – 26-11-18 As we hit December, you can see a lot of home grown talent on stage in Dublin. This week could be the start of it, with […]
Preview – Glasshouse – Orphée by Jóhann Jóhannsson – Unitarian Church – 9/12/18
Preview – Glasshouse – Orphée by Jóhann Jóhannsson – Unitarian Church – 9/12/18 Photo by Kasia Kaminska Glasshouse have been putting on some interesting gigs around Dublin for the last few years […]
Looking back to Lou Reed
Looking back to Lou Reed (via the Velvet Underground and Nico) – by Killian Laher Not so long after becoming a teenager, I became aware of Lou Reed, through the one song […]
Smashing Pumpkins – Shiny And Oh So Bright Vol. 1 / LP – Album Review
Smashing Pumpkins – Shiny And Oh So Bright Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun. – Album Review by Killian Laher Four years on from Monuments for an Elegy, […]
Woman Undone – Project Arts Centre – Review
Woman Undone – Project Arts Centre – Review by Frank L. Woman Undone – Brokentalkers with Project Arts Centre, Mermaid Arts Centre and LÓKAL Performing Arts Photos by Fionn McCann Feidlim Cannon […]
Interpol – Olympia Theatre – Live Review – 18/11/18
Interpol – Olympia Theatre – Live Review – 18/11/18 – by Killian Laher Fifteen or so years on after their heyday, Interpol still manage to play three pretty much sold out shows […]
Live Music in Dublin – 19-11-18
Live Music in Dublin – 19-11-18 The last time the Unknown Mortal Orchestra were seen in Dublin, they were blowing away Forbidden Fruit in the height of Summer! Now, it’s back to […]
Ed Harcourt – Beyond the End – Album Review
Ed Harcourt – Beyond the End – Album Review by Killian Laher Ed Harcourt has released seven albums of singer-songwriter music, ranging in intensity and mood since his debut in 2001, Here […]
No More Workhorse 