James Blunt’s legacy extends far beyond his music, showcasing a remarkable journey marked by extraordinary achievements. From earning his pilot’s license at a mere 16 years old to delving into the complexities of aerospace engineering, […]
Ireland’s largest free street performance festival returns to Belfast city centre from May 04th – 09th 2024. This year’s exciting free daytime programme offers three days of jam-packed, all-inclusive daytime entertainment for the whole family […]
As the lead singer of Kasabian – helping sell over four million albums – Tom Meighan’s unmistakable vocals are a central, many would say essential, component on timeless tracks like ‘Fire,’ ‘Club Foot,’ and ‘Shoot […]
Following the release of their single ‘Oh Hi’ and joyous BBC Radio 2 Piano Room appearance, the Brit-Award-winning, multi-million-selling Crowded House have announced their new single, ‘Teenage Summer,’ taken from the eighth studio album ‘Gravity […]
Aaron West is a fictional character, the brainchild of Dan Campbell from The Wonder Years. For those unfamiliar, Aaron’s story started with Campbell writing an album “about the worst year of Aaron West’s life,” in […]
Having emerged as one of Ireland’s finest talents in recent years, the Belfast shoegaze quintet Virgins release their debut album. This record sounds fresh and invigorating, nodding to the past with the brightest of futures. […]
Pierce the Veil, a renowned pop-punk sensation hailing from San Diego, California, electrified the Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham on April 5th with an unforgettable performance. Kicking off in dramatic fashion, the band emerged from the […]
While some were still wandering around whistling Ravel’s Bolero after Torvill and Dean’s gold medal win in Sarajevo, something new and intriguing bled out of the UK’s third-largest city. The Smiths launched their eponymous debut […]
In Episode #173 of The XS Noize Podcast, host Mark Millar speaks to Michael Smyth, guitarist and founder of Belfast shoegaze band Virgins, about their highly anticipated debut album ‘Nothing Hurt and Everything Was Beautiful’. […]
Following their sell-out Belfast show in 2022, Above & Beyond are pleased to announce their return to Belfast with a headline show in The Telegraph Building on Friday, July 26th, 2024. Above & Beyond, or […]
Irish rock duo Dea Matrona today release a new single ‘Every Night I Want You’, the third offering from their highly-anticipated debut album ‘For Your Sins’, out on 3rd May. A softer release than previous […]
The Slow Readers Club are Aaron Starkie (vocals), Kurtis Starkie (guitar), James Ryan (bass), and David Whitworth (drums). They write anthemic, uplifting post-punk alt-rock songs with addictive melodies, sing-along choruses and heartfelt lyrics. The band […]
It’s always special when one artist meets another while working on a project and decides to further their professional relationship when the project is complete. That’s exactly what happened when Kate Voegele and Michael Grubbs […]
The very notion that The Libertines would release a stunning fourth album in 2024 is something that would have seemed ridiculously over-optimistic, if not utterly preposterous, twenty years ago… writes John Kearns. However, here we […]
Paraorchestra, with Brett Anderson and Charles Hazlewood, have announced ‘Death Songbook’, a collaborative 12-track album featuring original compositions and re-imagining iconic songs exploring love, loss and transcendence by artists including Echo & The Bunnymen, Mercury […]
Free Flight Records’ pop/folk singer-songwriter Darren Kiely releases his newest track, “Say I.” Written alongside Joe Fox and Geoff Warburton, Kiely channels his Irish candour to signal an SOS while seemingly drowning amid feelings of […]
From the moment of our first breath to the very last gasp we take before we die, we never stop growing as people. Every trial and tribulation, every heartbreak, success and failure, every scar, blemish […]
To celebrate the anniversary of their seminal album Antics, Interpol has announced a Dublin date at the 3Arena on Sunday, 10 November, as part of their UK & Europe tour, playing the album in full. […]
In the great pantheon of musicians transcending above mere “celebrity” status, the late MICHAEL HUTCHENCE towers over most. A consummate “rock star”, if there ever was one, he embodied the spirit and smouldering swagger of […]
Following a huge SOLD-OUT weekend in 2023, EMERGE, Ireland’s biggest Electronic Music Festival, is back in 2024 at Boucher Road Playing Fields on August Bank Holiday weekend. It promises to be the biggest yet, featuring […]