Music

Fifty-years ago this November, Lou Reed released his second solo album, and created his most successful and influential work. Transformer, produced by Reed fans David Bowie and Bowie's collaborator, guitarist Mick Ronson, was viewed then…

The debut record of Galway based singer-songwriter Oisin Mod doesn’t often feel like the work of a new artist, so defined are the dreamy soundscapes and hazy textures which Mod constructs his ruminative narratives within. It’s a…

After a highly successful introduction in 2021, the Dun Laoghaire Folk Festival returns on Monday 22nd August with an even bigger and better line up than its predecessor. Last year's inaugural event was a lower key affair yet still…

What if The Beatles walked into Abbey Road to record a final album? It's a question that has abounded through the circles of Beatles fans for over half-a-century. If we imagine The Beatles 13th album into existence, what songs would have…

Some songs make an artist instantly recognisable. Such as hearing the rebirth and re-release of Kate Bush's 'Running Up That Hill'. We hear that song, and we know it is Kate, it has become a signature song for the artist, one which…

Fresh off celebrating the finest works that Irish artists have offered us this year, we're casting our lens a little wider this week and taking a look at the best albums of 2022 outside our green and rainy island. There's been a…

Wait, it's July? It's either been an insanely quick seven months or we're just getting old and the passage of time is now a dizzying blur, but there's one constant that remains the same. Namely, the spectacular array of Irish…

With Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave, author and journalist Mark Mordue explores Nick Cave’s early years in Australia, before he became the iconic musician, songwriter, and leader of The Bad Seeds. The book ends just as Cave is leaving…

Qwerty Mick, whose remarkable debut EP If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now was released last month, is an up-and-coming, enigmatic Irish singer-songwriter. First reaching public consciousness in 2020 with his debut single, 'Eternal…

Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Qwerty Mick’s debut EP If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now is a quirky, charming half dozen of lo-fi bedroom-pop tracks that showcases a more inquisitive mind than its playful aesthetic…