Solar Bears – Advancement – Album Review by Killian Laher Irish electronica duo Solar Bears return with their third album; Advancement. For the uninitiated, their recorded output tends to lean more towards […]
The Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas continues to punch above its weight, with a new list of artists announced which includes Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures […]
Farewell to TXFM, we hardly knew ye! Yesterday we were greeted with the news that TXFM would cease to trade with the loss of 6 full time jobs. It’s a little over […]
One of the strangest head liners in a while have just been announced in the Gloaming, but when you think about it, it makes perfect sense. Anyone that can sell out the […]
Dylan Tighe is back with a new album ‘Wabi-Sabi Soul’ which will be released next month. He also has a couple of interesting gigs/ events including a 3D Listening party at the […]
Bob Mould – Patch The Sky – Album Review by Killian Laher Bob Mould’s twelfth solo album arrives less than two years after his last, 2014’s Beauty & Ruin. That album was […]
We have two tickets to give away to one lucky winner for Sons of Kemet on Wednesday 6th April at the Sugar Club. To be in with a chance of winning – […]
The revolution is upon us! The 1916 celebrations are in full swing and getting very hard to ignore! There’s lots of talks, theatre and musical events around the city celebrating the failed […]
Richmond Fontaine – You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing To Go Back To – Album Review by Killian Laher Richmond Fontaine release their tenth album of a twenty-odd year career, and […]
The Line up for the Groove Festival has Sat 2nd & Sun 3rd July at the lovely Killruddery House, Bray, Co Wicklow. The day by day breakdown is below as well as […]
Cold, Cold Heart – How The Other Half Live and Die – Album Review by Killian Laher These days there are many bands ploughing the moody instrumental rock furrow, with varying degrees […]
More information has just been announced, with details of the line up for Saturday and Sunday line up of Forbidden Fruit. Saturday is looking pretty tasty with Tame Impala and Battles. As […]
Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression – Album Review by Killian Laher There’s a sense of finality about Iggy Pop’s latest album, Post Pop Depression, the title alone alludes to a universe […]
Drogheda Arts Festival 2016 – 25th April – 2nd May 2016 Details of the new Drogheda Arts Festival have just been announced, and while David Holmes will probably get most of the […]
9 years is a long time in the wilderness, but Adem has returned to the fold! It’s not like he disappeared completely, there was some production work and remixes in that time, […]
La Sera – Music For Listening to Music To – Album Review by Killian Laher Husband and wife duo La Sera return with their fourth album, the smart-assedly titled Music For Listening […]
This is the first single of Teleman’s forthcoming album Brilliant Sanity. A brash assault of synths and guitar make this an impressive taste of what’s to come on the album proper. Only […]
Bayonne is the stage name for Austin based musician Roger Sellers. The single “Spectrolite” is from his new LP Primitives which is released on Mom & Pop Records on March 25th. Whatever […]
Abdullah Ibrahim – NCH – Live Review 4-3-16 Abdullah Ibrahim was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1934. He started playing the piano at age nine and performed his first professional […]
So Pitted – Neo – Album Review by Killian Laher Every so often you need a bit of rage in your life. A means of reacting, a soundtrack for frustration, if you […]
Interview with Tara Erraught and Preview of Barber of Seville at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre by Fran Winston Opera singers are much like athletes – they make their job look incredibly […]
We had the John Colbert from the Black Bank Folk band about their Album Rising Out (Released Feb 26th), a Concept album based around the 1916 Rising featuring special guests Damien Dempsey, […]
Some New Irish Music with Otherkin – ‘I was born’. They play Whelans on Friday 8th April. Fresh from the success of ‘Feel It’, Dublin grunge-pop outfit Otherkin keep the good vibes […]
See the lovely video for Ciara O’Neill’s new video Ghots below. It comes from her new album – The Ebony Trail which is released on March 5th. Northern Irish singer songwriter Ciara […]
Baio – Workman’s Club – 22nd Feb 2016 – Live Review It has been three years since the last Vampire Weekend album ‘Modern Vampires of the City’ and while there is talk […]
The Audi Dublin International Film Festival is in full swing and runs until 28th of Feb, with a huge amount of events on around the city. There’s a massive amount of New […]
This is an early offering from the new album by Frightened Rabbit, and if this is anything to go by… it could be quite promising! I’ll leave you with the words of […]
Suede – Olympia, Dublin – Live Review by Killian Laher – Photos by M Quinn Passing the Olympia over an hour before the gig there was an old-fashioned queue waiting to see […]
The big event in town this week is the Audi Dublin International Film Festival. Yes, that name will take some getting used to, but it’s the same show, with movies, interviews and […]
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