In The Meadows – 07/06/25 – Festival Review In the Meadows – 07/06/25 at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital Kilmainham After the resounding success of last year’s inaugural In […]
In The Meadows – 07/06/25 – Festival Review
Album of the Week – 06/06/25
Album of the Week – 06/06/25 Pulp have a new album this week! Hard to believe that one really. It’s their first 24 years, and it’s lots of fun! You can hear […]
New Music – BC Camplight – A Sober Conversation
New Music – BC Camplight – A Sober Conversation With a new album now only 3 weeks away, BC has decided to gift us with a music video for the title song, […]
In The Meadows 2025 – Stage Times
In The Meadows 2025 – Stage Times With the Festival only 5 days away, we thought it was time to look at the various stages. Get there early as Dr John Cooper […]
Album of the Week – 30/05/25
Album of the Week – 30/05/25 Do you want to feel old? They’ve just released a 10th Anniversary Edition of Carrie & Lowell (Sufjan Stevens)! Do you want to feel really old? […]
Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles – Album Review
Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles – Album Review by Killian Laher After the, for want of a better word, shitshow that was White Roses, My God, Alan Sparhawk has teamed up […]
The Divine Comedy – Album and Gig News
The Divine Comedy – Album and Gig News For the Divine Comedy fans amongst us, this is certainly good news! There’s a new album on the horizon – Rainy Sunday Afternoon – out 19 […]
Robert Forster – Strawberries – Album Review
Robert Forster – Strawberries – Album Review by Killian Laher The former Go-Betweens man follows up 2023’s The Candle and the Flame relatively quickly with an album recorded with a band in […]
Album of the Week — 23/05/25
Album of the Week — 23/05/25 This week sees new releases from the likes of Sparks (MAD!) and Pan Amsterdam (Confines). There’s even an impossible new album from Stereolab (Instant Holograms On […]
Mogwai – The Bombing of Pan Am 103 – Album Review
Mogwai – The Bombing of Pan Am 103 – Album Review by Killian Laher Mogwai are one of the most prolific bands around, and only four months after The Bad Fire, they […]
These New Puritans – Crooked Wing – Album Review
These New Puritans – Crooked Wing – Album Review by Killian Laher These New Puritans’ Jack and George Barnett often leave it five or six years between releases, but their albums seldom […]
Album of the Week – 16/05/25
Album of the Week – 16/05/25 There are a few new releases this week worthy of your attention. We’d recommend you check out Ezra Furman (Goodbye Small Head) along with Ben Frost […]
Album of the Week – 09/05/25
Album of the Week – 09/05/25 New sounds this week from the likes of I’m With Her (Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, and Sara Watkins) (Wild and Clear and Blue), Preoccupations (Ill at […]
Preoccupations – Ill At Ease – Album Review
Preoccupations – Ill At Ease – Album Review by Killian Laher For their fifth album, Preoccupations have lightened up considerably, incorporating more keyboards, less misery, and more of a ‘pop’ sound. It […]
Album of the Week – 02/05/25
Album of the Week – 02/05/25 If you’ve ever lived on the second floor, you’ll be excited to hear about the return of Suzanne Vega (Flying With Angels). There are some exciting […]
Suzanne Vega – Flying With Angels – Album Review
Suzanne Vega – Flying With Angels – Album Review by Killian Laher Suzanne Vega was always something of an old soul. Even when she emerged in her mid-twenties in 1985, there was […]
Lael Neale – Altogether Stranger – Album Review
Lael Neale – Altogether Stranger – Album Review by Cathy Brown Lael Neale’s third album for Sub Pop, Altogether Stranger, is a brief yet hauntingly beautiful slice of atmospheric sound. Clocking in […]
Maria Somerville – Luster – Album Review
Maria Somerville – Luster – Album Review by Killian Laher Maria Somerville is a musician from Galway, and for her second album, she has signed to 4AD and conjured up an album […]
Loscil – Lake Fire – Album Review
Loscil – Lake Fire – Album Review by Killian Laher As well as being quite prolific, Scott Morgan, who records as loscil, is releasing music that is consistently at the finer end […]
Album of the Week – 24/04/25
Album of the Week – 24/04/25 We’re almost at the end of April, and the tunes keep coming! This week, we’ve a new album from Jeff Goldblum (Still Blooming)! Yes, you read […]
A Lazarus Soul – Vicar Street – Live Review – 18/04/25
A Lazarus Soul – Vicar Street – Live Review – 18/04/25 by Killian Laher A Lazarus Soul – Vicar Street, Dublin on April 18th 2025 A return visit to Vicar Street, about […]
New Music – Anika – Whelans – 3/05/25
New Music – Anika – Whelans – 3/05/25 An album that was released a few weeks ago, that slipped through our net, is Abyss (released April 4th) by Anika. Anika is the […]
The Cruellest Month – National Concert Hall – 13/04/25 – Live Review
The Cruellest Month – National Concert Hall – 13/04/25 – Live Review by Killian Laher The Cruellest Month – Night 2 – The National Concert Hall, Dublin A second night for the […]
Adrian Crowley – Project Arts Centre – Live Review – 11/04/25
Adrian Crowley – Project Arts Centre – Live Review – 11/04/25 by Killian Laher Adrian Crowley – Foggy Notions presents – 11th April 2025 The Project Arts Centre was the venue for […]
Album of the Week – 11/04/25
Album of the Week – 11/04/25 It’s very hard to complain in a sun-soaked Dublin! And we’ve also got lots of sun-soaked sounds for you to enjoy, including The Album Leaf (Rotations), […]
New Irish Music – Arrivalists – Triúir EP
New Irish Music – Arrivalists – Triúir EP Pat Barrett has been releasing some of the finer Irish music around in the last 15 years, lately under the name Arrivalists. He has […]
Perspectives: The Cruellest Month – National Concert Hall
Perspectives: The Cruellest Month – National Concert Hall The Waste Land – By T. S. Eliot “April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing…” If you’re looking […]
Album of the Week – 04/04/25
Album of the Week – 04/04/25 The band that sounds nothing like the original Black Country, New Road, have released a new album called Forever Howlong. It’s recorder heavy, as you would […]
New Irish Music: David Murphy & Ether Ensemble
New Irish Music: David Murphy & Ether Ensemble by Killian Laher David Murphy is taking a relatively old-fashioned instrument, the steel guitar, and bringing it in a new direction. He is releasing […]
No More Workhorse 