Jamie Roberts is known for his crushing atmospheres and dark dance music, but recent years have seen the Blawan project move in more experimental sound design directions, and that trend continues on ...

Country pop music, punk-jazz, electronic trad, underground connectors, gothic shoegaze and tin whistles, freak folk, no wave rock and more. In revisiting that first 2016 list, I noticed my problem has ...

Lumo Club turned 10 years old this October, a nice milestone to make in a tough time for Dublin clubs and spaces. Lumo is myself, Gavin Elsted and Simon Roche and we always look forward to the ...

The Dublin alternative folk six-piece band Madra Salach have had a big breakthrough year, that really kicked in when they released their debut single in September. From there, a buzzy show at Ireland ...

Jamal Sul has been making Irish Arabic electronic music as Moving Still since 2016. His productions link his Arabic heritage, with his love of synthesizers, dance music and buzzy bangers. We chatted ...

The band’s last album was 2019’s High Time, which featured singles with videos starring now Irish food writer influencer Sian Conway. New album Ossory Road meanwhile was made by a four-piece – ...

It’s the Dublin DJ buzzer’s first guestlist in FOUR YEARS (how did that happen?). Sally Cinnamon shares her top 10 songs of the year. In August 2024 we lost a spectacular Irish artist Eoin French, a ...

The show at NCH is part of the venue’s NCH Celebrates Women in 2026 concerts. Saint Sister, Gemma Hayes and Mary Beard were announced for 2026 events as part of this programme. Saint Sister are ...

After a recent Dublin 3Arena show, Patti Smith has been announced for Galway and Limerick city – billed as the Patti Smith Quartet. The Limerick show takes place at King Johns Castle, Limerick on ...

Richard Fearless has announced the return of Death In Vegas for their own headline shows in Belfast and Dublin next May. The shows will be Death In Vegas’ first in eight years indoors as headline ...

Country pop music, punk-jazz, electronic trad, underground connectors, gothic shoegaze and tin whistles, freak folk, no wave rock and more. Limerick songwriter and musician Laura Duff released a debut ...

Country pop music, punk-jazz, electronic trad, underground connectors, gothic shoegaze and tin whistles, freak folk, no wave rock and more. The debut album from multi-instrumentalist, singer and ...