folk

Folk music has been in a precarious state over the past few years. Bon Iver spawned a litany of simulacra and this has been particularly marked in the Irish music scene. It seems as if any singer-songwriter with a guitar can brand…

Kanye West’s interruption of Taylor Swift mid-speech at the 2009 VMA’s is one of the most iconic cultural moments of the 21st century thus far. This may appear to some as a complete over exaggeration yet there’s so much more to this…

Something’s Changing, the third record from British singer songwriter Lucy Rose, was recorded on the back of a rather romantic story. Chronicling the singer-songwriter’s travels across South America, Rose reached out to her fans on twitter…

It’s 2017, and Overcoats are due to perform the first show of their European tour tonight in Whelan’s, Dublin. The duo boast an American tour supporting Maggie Rogers as well as a critically acclaimed album. The band recently made the…

New Music Weekly is your one stop shop for new releases in the world of music each and every week. From the best of the best, to some of the rest, Mark Conroy is here to give you the low down on what you might have missed. This week;…

Leigh Cooney's extensive portfolio includes both oil and acrylic paintings, influenced by cartooning, pop-culture, surrealism, religious themes, and folk art. The Irish-born Canadian artist is self-taught and found success with a…

Buzz, as it were, has been steadily building in recent months for Patrick O'Laoghaire's I Have A Tribe project. This Friday December 4 sees the release of the No Countries EP, a five-track collection of winsome wanderings, beautifully…

Villagers Darling Arithmetic It took the release of a third album, but we’re finally getting to know Conor O'Brien of Villagers. Darling Arithmetic is an intimate venture into a more subtle and personal setting for the Malahide artist,…

Released in 1972, Van Morrison's sixth studio album would gift a song that stands to this day as a great example of the stream of consciousness style that runs through the majority of his work. Taken from the record of the same name, 'Saint…

Black Betty is a black belter according to every musician ever. We are all familiar with the Ram Jam version of Black Betty. The party-rock song, whoa-O Black Betty, bam-ba-lam, whoa-O Black Betty. It's a classic and we all love it…