We are deeply  saddened to hear of the passing of the legendary guitarist Eddie Van Halen tonight. When I was growing up around Castlebar Van Halen we’re a big deal in the Hoban household. He was a wonderful guitarist that inspired a whole new generation of musicians including Guns ‘n’ Roses guitarist Slash. May he Read More

Only a few weeks ago Bruce Springsteen announced that he would be releasing his 19th studio album ‘Letter to You’. This will be Springsteen’s first outing with the E-Street band since 2012’s ‘Wrecking Ball’ To coincide with the new album there will be a special documentary on the making of the album titled Letter to Read More

Exstensively touring, playing large festivals and releasing 3 albums which led to huge critical aclaim. After an extended period in L.A and New York working with Multi-platinum award winning producers David Bendeth and Dan Korneff, the pressure of keeping a steady line up on the road led Robinson to take the solo route.“There was something Read More

The NATIONAL frontman is going at it alone to release his first debut album which is due October 16th titled ‘Serpentine Prison’ So far we have being treated to two tracks from the album called Serpentine Prison and the latest single called ‘One more Second’. Two of the tracks, are a more of a mellow Read More

Since the beginning of Covid 19 we have being discovering a lot of new Irish music. Lockdown gave us plenty of time to listen to and digest new Irish music. There seems to be a lot of great new albums coming out from Irish female musicians. Over a number of weeks ago we spoke about Read More

Drew’s third single Let’s Break the Night in Love is a piano lead, string orchestra swamped indie banger. Dreamy chorus harmonies lend to the psychedelic trip. “The song came from a little moment of clarity. I’m always off on some quest for knowledge. Down any rabbit hole from philosophy to physics to Big Foot, usually staring at Read More

We have being following this next artist here at Finbar Hoban Presents for a number of weeks now ever since we heard about her high profile appearance on The Late Late Show and i must say that we are hooked on the artist’s music. We have yet to see the artist perform live for ourselves Read More

We we’re recently sent the brand new EP from Strangers With Guns, titled ‘Disinfranchised Fetus’ and we must say some of the tracks hark back to that nineties Irish grunge sound that made Kerbdog so popular. Where have these gone being on our radar? We will tell you where, Making great music and playing punk Read More

We are delighted to feature the brand new single from Mayo artist RACHEL. In a world of fear and uncertainty, it’s important to look for hope and light whenever possible. Mayo singer-songwriter RACHEL has taken this message to heart with the release of her highly-emotive new single ‘Show Me’.     Written whilst sitting in Read More

We always wonder what goes through a person’s  mind the last few days before they make a decision to take their own life. All sorts of questions are raised, was that person on drugs?, what drove he/she to do such an act to leave a  family and a loving wife behind? I’ve being thinking about Read More