Highlights

6 new acts @ Longitude Festival to catch this weekend

A more in-depth look at my most-played songs of 2017 to date.

Electric Picnic’s Anachronica announce DJ lineup

Here’s a Spotify playlist for your Running or Gym workout

New Music

Watch Feist & Maria Doyle Kennedy have a dance off in the video for ‘Century’

With Jarvis Cocker making an appearance.

Enemies’ Eoin Whitfield teams up with Jessica Lord on electronic project EHCO’s first cut ‘Raise It Up’

Pantha Du Prince and muted tropical pop tones?

Empress Of – ‘Go To Hell’

Lorely Rodriguez is back with a tropical pop song that delivers the shade.

Here’s a Spotify playlist for your Running or Gym workout

A regular playlist for your gym or active workout.

Zola Jesus announces Dublin gig & new album Okovi

Hear new songs 'Soak' and 'Exhumed'.

Intro: Sudan Archives brings violin, R&B, West African rhythms and electronica together on Stones Throw

The 23 year-old has a debut EP out Friday.

Bitch Falcon release beefed-up dance remix ‘Wolftooth Reloaded’

The band are playing Longitude on Friday.

8 new songs you need to hear right now

New music from Mura Masa, Felix Pallas, Four Tet, The Academic, Skepta, Shabazz Palaces.

5 new releases to listen to today: HAIM, Broken Social Scene, DJ Shadow, Clams Casino

Follow the Nialler9 new albums playlist to get it all in one place.

There’s a Beastie Boys / Sesame Street ‘Sabotage’ video mashup to brighten your day

Plenty more where that came from...

30 of the best Irish songs of 2017 (so far)

From Ailbhe Reddy to Wino Wagon; from Bicep to Soulé.

Watch New Jackson’s handpainted video for album highlight ‘Put the Love In It’

Finbar 247 painted 500 stills for the video.

Rocstrong – ‘Be Cool’

Anderson .Paak is an influence on this new monthly drop single.

Chance The Rapper’s NPR Tiny Desk concert is here & great

A poem, a cover and an original.

Irish rapper JyellowL reaches for something deeper on ‘Cold in the Summer’

The Word Up Collective artist addresses racism and oppression.

All New Music →

20 of the best songs of 2017 (so far)

A more in-depth look at my most-played songs of 2017 to date.

Wastefellow picks his current favourite tracks ahead of RHA’s Hennessy Lost Friday

Upcoming Dublin leftfield electronic artists shares his Listening Post jams.

Aer Lingus inflight Cara Magazine’s profiles new Irish musicians this month

Watch Wyvern Lingo perform their new single acoustically in Hellfire Studios

Christian Tierney captures the band in the studio in the Wicklow mountains.

75 great songs of 2017 so far

A Spotify playlist of my favourite tracks of the year to date.

Intro: New Irish band Little One collaborate with female singers

Listen to their new single featuring Pockets' Faustina Finnerty.

First listen: The Jimmy Cake’s massive new album ‘Tough Love’

Longform psych/motorik goodness from Dublin experimental mainstays.

The best albums of 2017 (so far)

My most-played albums of the year from January to June.

Fehdah releases video for ‘Like No Other’ & news of EP

One of my favourite records of 2016.

Arcade Fire make it 3/3 for Everything Now with ‘Signs Of Life’

Well, well. Arcade Fire are really kicking against the narrative that seems arena rock bands lose their appeal, charm and buzz.

St. Vincent’s new song ‘New York’ is here

Hear it now. It clocks in at only 2 mins 30 seconds.

Seamus Fogarty signs to Domino, releases video for ‘Short Ballad for a Little Man’

Mayo alt-folk/electronic man marks signing for UK indie institution, marks occasion with new single

New Irish electro pop project 1000 Beasts debuts with ingenious meta video

The project's first vocalist for 'Wonderland' is Briony.

Sleep Thieves delve into noir atmospherics with new single ‘Is This Ready?’

The synth-loving cinematic trio are back.

Wyvern Lingo encourage male realness with ‘I Love You Sadie’

Soulful R&B pop from the Wicklow trio's forthcoming debut.

All New Music →

Body & Soul 2017: 9 acts & 3 DJs you must see

My pick of acts to see at the festival this summer Solstice. Plus a bonus pick.

Cornelius – ‘Sometime / Someplace’

The Japanese favourite has a new album next month.

Body & Soul Festival 2017 Spotify Playlist

Over 5 hours of all Body & Soul artists picked by me for you.

Slow Place Like Home – ‘When I See You… Ice Cream!’

The Donegal band trail a new record coming later in 2017 with a new single.

7 new songs you need to hear right now

New music from Arcade Fire, Lorde, QOTSA, Washed Out, Laoise, Bicep & Daphni.

London-based Irish /Aussie duo AGE debut the tropical electronic pop of ‘Peaks’

..with touches of Balearia and sunny vistas.

Quinton Campbell drops two edits of Nils Frahm & Entro Senestre

The DJ and producer on the rise impresses once more.

Rusangano Family debut mental heath-centred video for ‘I Know You Know’

Bob Gallagher directs the new clip.

Here’s a Spotify playlist of my favourite Dutch music to coincide with the Vermeer exhibiton

Nialler9 is DJing at the Vermeer launch at the National Gallery of Ireland this Friday.

Queens of the Stone Age for Dublin show; hear new track

'The Way You Used To Do' trails the Villains album.

Bicep announce debut album on Ninja Tune; hear ‘Aura’

12 all-new tracks make up the release.

18 current favourite dancefloor tracks from the Lumo Club DJs

Lumo turns 21 this Friday night.

Ensemble Ériu to release Stargazer, an album inspired by paintings of Jack B. Yeats

Hear 'Eileen Eile Well Ah' now.

First Listen: Rosa Nutty’s Pips EP

The emerging songwriter scatters her pips to the wind.

Ghostpoet for Dublin show, new album Dark Days + Canapés announced

All New Music →

Best Of

Podcasts & Premieres

Irish rapper JyellowL reaches for something deeper on ‘Cold in the Summer’

The Word Up Collective artist addresses racism and oppression.

Upcoming Irish rapper JyellowL just dropped ‘Cold In The Summer’, a seven minute track detailing the issues that effect him as a young man of Nigerian / Jamaican heritage growing up in Ireland. “The title is a euphemism for racism, black oppression, police brutality and death”, he says. “It is an artistic reminder that racism… Read more »

Ensemble Ériu to release Stargazer, an album inspired by paintings of Jack B. Yeats

Hear 'Eileen Eile Well Ah' now.

Modern Irish traditionalists Ensemble Ériu have released some superb music that moves between trad and contemporary in recent years. For their forthcoming album, Stargazer, the band were commissioned to write the release based on the paintings of Jack B. Yeats by the Model arts centre in Sligo in 2014. It was recorded at the same… Read more »

Maria Doyle Kennedy – ‘Pride’

The actress trails a new album with an expansive folk track about accepting love.

The actor (Orphan Black, Redwater, The Conjuring 2, Sing Street), writer, filmmaker (she’s just completed her own film A Different Kind of Day) and musician Maria Doyle Kennedy returns to the latter with a new song ‘Pride’ to trail the release of a as-yet untitled album due later this year. The song has an expansive… Read more »

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