The style is known as post-rock. Godspeed You! Black Emperor are among its pioneers. The effect is particularly striking in their live shows, where the congregational aspects of their work come over strongly. With their Book of Revelation-influenced imagery, anarchistic ideals and loud instrumental proclamations of doom, they resemble a sect of religious dissenters, like Read More
The Decades have a lot to offer the Irish music scene with new song ‘Fools Gold’
The Decades release their new single ‘Fool’s Gold’, which follows on from the success of the group’s debut single ‘Electricity’, which managed to reach number 1 in the Irish iTunes charts and broke onto the Irish Homegrown Top 20 charts. Their lead vocalist, Seán Fox, has supported the likes of Aslan and Gerry Fish and Read More
How Arcade Fire’s ‘Funeral’ became a modern day classic
They used to actually be a phenomenal band and Funeral is all the proof you need. Full of gang chants and guitar twitches, big band fever and Springsteen suburbia, Arcade Fire made a hopeful and triumphant rock record that fully deserved to be loud. With a handful of indie rock’s best tunes on it, it traversed a Read More
Hook Release Melancholic Rock Single, “Best Days”
Dublin-based new wave rock band Hook are set to release a new song, “Best Days,” their first release of the year. Eoin (vocals, guitar) says, “The song is an autobiographical account of being a young person or in college. For some, it’s a very lonely and isolating time. Everyone is telling you that these are Read More
Fontaines D.C. nominated for a Brit Award
The wonderful Irish act Fontaines D.C. have being nominated for yet another award this time for the Brit Awards. The band have being receiving rave reviews for they’re most recent album ‘A Hero’s Death’. The nominations with take place on May 11th. We are very welcome excited as two members of the group are from Read More
My Bloody Valentine sign to Domino Records and announce Re-issues
It’s being a longtime coming but My Bloody Valentine have announced that their three albums are set to be reissued and released through Domino Records. All three albums in the bands catalog will be remastered and reissued through Domino Records and will see a release date of May 21st this year. The band’s third album Read More
NÍV Releases Nostalgic Single, “Home”
Kildare singer-songwriter NÍV has recently released “Home,” the latest single from the up and coming Irish artist. The beautiful, nostalgic folk song features layered vocals, plucked guitars, and swells with emotion and ambient sounds. Talking about the single, NÍV says “This song has ended up meaning quite a lot to me. It was written during the Read More
A Ritual Sea share new single and video ‘Desire Lines’
French-Irish indie band, A RITUAL SEA last played live in February 2020 when they played a sold out headline show in Dublin, Ireland. With live shows on hold for now, the five-piece made the decision to finish writing their debut album. Formed in 2016, A RITUAL SEA have featured at the renowned Other Voices Festival Read More
Lilac release new single ‘Remember, No Regrets’
Lilac have recently released their new single, ‘Remember, No Regrets’, complete with B-side, ‘(I’m) Pretending to be Sad’. The sonic distance between the fuzzed out and jangling guitars speaks to the often impassable chasm, articulated by the song’s lyrics, between what people do and what they say. The sonic distance between the fuzzed out and Read More
Post Punk four piece Sprints release spellbinding new EP ‘Manifesto’
After a number of single releases over the past twelve months we finally have a full length EP from Dublin post punk four piece SPRINTS titled ‘MANIFESTO’ Manifesto is everything we wanted from Sprints and more! From the get go we get previous single, opener ‘Drones’ but the heavy antics are upped a notch on Read More