Six Great Festivals You Can Still Hit Up This Summer
Summer isn’t summer without spending at least one weekend in a field supping luke-warm beer and watching music, right?
By the time the sun actually...
Dublin Made Easy: Trad Venues
In this weeks Dublin Made Easy follow the trad path to mighty music with an in-depth look at some of the city-centre's best specialist...
Growing Up In Soulful pop: The Brave Rebirth of Delorentos
Dublin’s deeply-personal indie-popsters Delorentos are growing up, fast. In ditching and rewriting their fifth album, they hope the result – True Surrender – shows them...
Mastering the harp was a Canny move
From seven-time All Ireland champion in harp and banjo as a kid, to working with some household names under the encouraging, watchful eye of...
The Hot Sprockets continue to evolve with psychedelia-tinged third album
If you heard a track of two of The Hot Sprockets’ music, and were then asked to stick a pin in a map identifying...
Meet Le Galaxie
Dublin's most popular dance act might have left behind the world of major labels, but with the addition of former Fight Like Apes vocalist...
Rip it up and start again… Æ Mak’s ambitious rebalancing
Hailing straight from Dublin’s rock school having departed BIMM as part of their first graduating class in 2015, Æ Mak are all about boisterous...
Landless: a vocal quartet that soar, organically…
Built on soaring yet carefully-refined harmonies and the most delicate of recording approaches, Bleaching Bones - the debut album from Dublin and Belfast four-piece...
Review: Stereophonics at 3 Arena
There's an argument to be made - a fairly convincing one, actually - that when Stereophonics stepped into an unlikely headline slot at the...
The Vaccines: a return to simple roots
Born of summer shenanigans, The Vaccines frontman Justin Hayward-Young says the return of the Londoners with fourth album ‘Combat Sports’ is a trek back...