A music blog from Ireland.
Monday, April 29th, 2013
Remember Friend? had a violinist by the name of Rachael Boyd who released an EP on the ElevenEleven label in 2011? Well the Belfast improvisational musician is back with a new EP due for release in May, and ahead of that has released a remix of You Need To Stop Looking by Sun Glitters which
Monday, April 15th, 2013
A new Solar Bears album Supermigration is here, released today, two years on from the release of She Was Coloured In. That’s a fair stretch in Internet time but it’s surprising how precisely and neatly the band have dropped...
Friday, April 12th, 2013
I’ve been listening to The Community Games a lot over the past few weeks, and it’s given me hours of fun to stare at this image, as if it’s some kind of magic-eye picture that will show...
Friday, April 12th, 2013
Ah you can always rely on No Monster Club to come up with something harebrained, although in this case, perhaps ‘bananas’ would be…a better fit! Deducing that it was shot on the European mainland (I’m not that...
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
Something a bit different from the constant stream of new Irish releases here; Downtownsounds is set to release the first volume of a series of classic disco and house tracks on Dublin record label, Fatty Fatty Phonographics,...
Monday, March 25th, 2013
A big loud bluesy ballsy tune from The Hard Ground, Bad Faith, presented in a stark monochrome video with underlying animation. It suits the song I think, giving a look to the feel of a band deeply...
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
On Friday the Bandcamp promo of The Community Games went live and all weekend since I had this great new No Monster Club track Freaking Me Out stuck in my head, and I know it won’t go...
Friday, March 15th, 2013
So the first piece of new music this week to make me freak out in delight came courtesy of Kab Driver, the second release on Reset Industries, in the new single Hank Bewlington and its companion track Wesley...
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
There’s no doubt that Tieranniesaur are one of the country’s most well-loved new bands (and best-kept secrets) of recent years, which means that news of a second album in May will be very well received. Titled DIYSCO,...