An Interview with ROMES: Cracking the Music Industry One Stream at a Time
ROMES have been gaining momentum over the past year. Their single ‘Believe’ is getting regular airplay and is being featured in ads on Irish…
Music
Album in Review: ‘Skeleton Tree’, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Profound emotions often inspire beauty in music. In July of last year, Nick Cave’s 15-year-old son, Arthur, died after falling from a cliff near…
Summer Breakout Artist: CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS
It is impossible to have lived through the summer of 2016 and not to have heard Christine and the Queens at least once a…
An Interview with Fantastic Negrito
In late August I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Xavier Dphrepaulezz, otherwise known as ‘Fantastic Negrito’ from his home in Oakland, California. Fresh…
Dublin Buskers: Alex
A glowing and exotic melody drew me around the corner of Suffolk Street to the front of St Andrew’s Church where Alessandro ‘Alex’ was…
One from the Crate: The Popgun Plot
A really nice find with an unfortunate sour note to it. Having picked up ‘The Popgun Plot’ in Tower Records, listened through front to…
King of West Kerry
Early in February, music editor Kevin O’Reilly bagged a rare interview with a living legend. Read on to find out more about his chat…
Lady Leshurr
Kevin O’Reilly spoke to the up-and-coming British freestyle rap sensation to find out more about her music and her online and international stardom. From…
Summer of Sound: Festival Season Highlights
Ignoring the obvious juggernauts on the Irish festival calendar that are EP and Longitude, music editor Kevin O’Reilly takes a look at just some…
Review: Troye Sivan- Blue Neighbourhood.
‘Youth, Life, Love and Sexuality’ December 4th marked the release of the highly anticipated debut studio album by Australian artist (and YouTube sensation) Troye…
From One Weird Ginger to Another: A Tribute to David Bowie
Over the last few weeks, the music world has lost some of its brightest stars. Lemmy and Glenn Frey were enormous talents, and their…
Upcoming Gigs
UCD Battle of the Bands final- Whelans- Thurs 4/2 Six of UCD’s finest bands will compete in the final of the UCD Battle of…