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The Northern Irish, Alternative band Snow Patrol has been off the popular musical radar since their 2011 release “Fallen Empires”. After seven years in hiatus, there were those who assumed that Snow Patrol had gone […]
Glaswegian synth-pop trio Chvrches (who are Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty) release their highly-anticipated third album, “Love Is Dead” today through Glassnote records. Music fans have already heard quite a bit of the […]
Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand, the duo who make up the musical entity Beach House have always been known for their singular independence. They seem unaffected by the whims and crotchets of the musical world […]
George Orwell once told the story about A Clergyman’s Daughter, Mansun tells the story about a Clergyman’s son: Paul Draper (the bands’ leader and frontman) and his bandmates Dominic Chad (guitar), Stove King (bass) and […]
We Are Scientists are one of those bands who seem to just have the right mix of fun and fantastic music, and they certainly didn’t disappoint once again, as they graced Belfast’s Limelight II and […]
The Arctic Monkeys’ highly anticipated sixth studio album has been the subject of mythical rumours for years since their 2013 commercial and critical megahit, AM. In the seemingly long and dreaded five-year gap since we […]
In late April of this year, the band Gomez re-released their 1998 Mercury Music Prize-winning epic “Bring It On” to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the album. The lads from Merseyside were an anodyne to […]
Rock icon Noel Gallagher has been a frequent visitor to Belfast over the past few years, not only from playing live but from spending a wealth of time in Belfast recording his experimental third solo […]
Although she was not a founding member, every teenage boy who was an Ash fan in the late nineties is still mourning the departure of Charlotte Hatherley (rhythm guitar, piano, backing vocals) when she left […]
The legendary UK band Reef comes charging back into the music world with their long-awaited new release “Revelation”. It has been an 18-year wait for a new studio album and on May 4th the wait […]
The twentieth-anniversary celebrations of Gomez’s Mercury Award-winning debut album almost never got off the ground. When acclaimed support artist John Smith (having previously supported Richard Hawley) took to the stage, a pleasant folk guitar could […]
“I should have been more kind. It is my fate/ To find this out, but find it out too late.” It is this solitary expression that inspired the progressive folk punk pioneer Frank Turner’s 7th […]
The Punk genre has always been renowned for calling out the corrupt excesses of our society. In the genre’s glory days during the late 70’s and 80’s groups like the Sex Pistols, The Clash, Black […]
Yo La Tengo brings the sounds of their new album There’s A Riot Goin’ On as well as a slew of their greatest hits to Dublin’s Olympia Theatre and make for the most compelling live […]
Just before the Manics took to the stage at Manchester’s Arena last Saturday night large neon words were lit up: “The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul” which led to […]
Palace Winter are Copenhagen-based Australian Carl COLEMAN and Dane Caspar HESSELAGER. Having played in bands separately for years, a mutual respect for each other’s styles encouraged them to start writing together. Coleman, a singer-songwriter joining […]
To mark 100 years since Jazz reached Britain, Two Temple Place reopened to the public with its seventh annual winter exhibition, Rhythm & Reaction: The Age of Jazz in Britain which ran until 22nd April […]
Having formed in 2011 Manchester’s The Slow Readers Club could be renamed The Slow Burners Club as their candle has burned brightly but stealthily over the years. With a word-of-mouth reputation and always funding themselves […]
Derry punks ‘The Wood Burning Savages’ have provided us with a statement full of anger and political frustration on their debut album ‘Stability’. Opening title track explodes into the listener’s ear. The pounding driven bass […]
As some might say, “another day, another Guided By Voices record,” and it’s something I don’t fault them for. Since the early ’80s, Robert Pollard along with a constantly changing line-up has been releasing some […]