Parallel, New Single ‘When I’m high’
Cork-based Parallel were in touch about their new release. There’s a nice breezy (dare we say drivetime) feel to ‘When I’m high’, coming at jangly guitar pop from a rootsy by-road. More details here. Following the success of their debut album ‘Paper Walls’ in 2012, Cork based band Parallel now present ‘When I’m High’, their...
Tigers of Tin Pan
Dorothy Cotter was in touch. You might know her name from Eleventy Four, a band of hers we featured last year. This time though it was to let us know about another project she’s involved in called Tigers of Tin Pan. To start with, there’s a video and free download of ‘I’ll be loving you’,...
The David Nelligan Thing, New Video + Album Out Today
Cork band The David Nelligan Thing release their album Dark matters today, through Bandcamp (they also have a special hook up with Plugd Records in Cork). And they’ve sent on the last in the series of videos which have trailed the album. If you’ve been paying attention up to now, it won’t come as a...
Cat Dowling, New Single
The new single from Cat Dowling, ‘Come on’, is a really fine thing. A simple piano motif, minimal bass and subtle percussion carry the first half, with Dowling’s pleading, achingly intimate vocal. There’s a notable and brilliant production switch at 2.13, when a full drumbeat and massed vocals drive the point home superbly. The most...
Purling Hiss, New Single
Fancy something “scummy, blown out, and crusted”? With VERY loud guitars? We thought so. Here’s ‘Mercury Retrograde’, the current single by Purling Hiss from the album Water on Mars on Drag City. As you know they play The Pavilion in Cork on May 19th with Grave Lanterns in support.
Dott, New Video + Album News
Photo: Bríd O’Donovan showshotshare.tumblr.com All is far from quiet on the western front. Galway-based band Dott are hooking up with Graveface Records for their first American outing. Here’s the lowdown. Today Dott are releasing a new video for their song ‘Leave Tonight’ to coincide with the US release of their EP Button on 7″ vinyl...
The David Nelligan Thing, Album Title Track
The last in the series of taster videos from the new album by The David Nelligan Thing has just landed. It’s the title track and might well be the strongest one we’ve heard yet. It’s also something of a departure from the previous tunes, starting life with a drum machine and lovely soporific bassline, before...
The David Nelligan Thing, Latest New Video
The latest instalment in The David Nelligan Thing pre-album release campaign arrived last night. ‘The Beersoaked Blues’ is track 11 on the upcoming album Dark matters and lopes into view on something of a country swing. The video backs that up with what could be an hommage (another man’s parody) to John Ford westerns, or...
Paradox up for Berlin Music Video Awards
We’ve mentioned Cork band Paradox a few times this year. They hooked up with the people at Zombie for the video to their single ‘Mr Bureaucracy’. And more interesting news this week. Pete here from Cork band Paradox. I just wanted to let you know our video for ‘Mr. Bureaucracy’ has been nominated for ‘best...
My Fellow Sponges – This dream song
Galway band My Fellow Sponges were in touch to share their new video. Firstly, Donal from the band gives some bio. We are a three-piece just putting the finishing touches to our debut album which should be out in early May. The band is led by two veteran songwriters, Donal McConnon and Anna Mullarky who...
Office Playlist: Marika Hackman – Cannibal
There seem to multiple possibilities for women in folk music these days. The godlike genius of Joanna Newsom is well known to all (she’s in a glorious category of one, mind you), but closer to home, across the small water, some interesting new directions have been forged recently. Smoke Fairies have shown some lovely, earthy...
The Maori John Wayne play Table Tennis
Photo: Petr Stary The fuzzy enigma that is The Maori John Wayne just keeps on giving. Via the endless source of nutrition that is Facebook, news this morning of their music set to film (or is it film set to music?). If you’ve seen them play live, you’ll know the drill – five masked men,...
