New soul with a old voice or a new voice with an old soul, Michael Kiwanuka is a modern-day Bill Withers.
‘Home Again’ has been part of his live set since early summer. It’s acoustic soul with hints of grandiose, rolling with folk guitar, loose dusty beats and some choice cello.
“So I close my…

A couple of years ago a bunch of Rhode Islanders relocated to Brooklyn, New York. As Twin Sister they released Vampires With Dreaming Kids, a four song collection of expansive shoegaze with foggy rhythms and an icy disposition. This was followed by Colour Your Life…, featuring vaseline-lensed space-disco. Last year the band re-released

For her most recent appearance on US television, Lykke Li is joined the Söderberg sisters, Johanna and Klara, on backing vocals. The girls of course make up First Aid Kit, who are touring with Lykke Li as support around the States.
Lykke Li was on David Letterman performing ‘Silent My Song’, the closing track off…

Next Friday night (25th) sees the launch of the This Club Presents… night at the Sugar Club, featuring a performance from the hotly tipped Irish band plus support from Kid Karate, DJs Handsome Paddy & Nu Bromantics and all sorts of other shenanigans. This Club singer and keyboard player Johnny Holden gives us the lowdown…

Björk has always been a marketing dream. If you had Debut…, chances are you also had the poster on the wall. With every release there are remixes, special edition box sets, DVDs, picture books, collector vinyls and so on – case in point, Björk’s most recent single has a series of versions available on

Today, November 11th, Liz Green releases her debut record O, Devotion! on the London-based label Play It Again Sam.
O, Devotion!is a fabulously peculiar collection of waltzing folk and she’s bringing it to The Academy 2 on November 30th – tickets are €11, available from Ticketmaster – but not before introducing herself.
Who are …

Celebrating 25 years together, pioneering alt-rock band Throwing Muses will play The Academy in Dublin as part of their 25th Anniversary Tour….
Tickets for the show on Thursday November 10th are priced at €24.90, inclusive of booking fee, available from Ticketmaster.
We have three pairs up for grabs. To win, name Throwing Muses debut

Celebrating its tenth anniversary, Other Voices returns to Dingle, Co. Kerry for a festival of music with performances from homegrown and international talent in St. James’ Church – taking place from Thursday December 1st to Sunday December 4th 2011.
This year’s event will be presented by acclaimed Irish actor Aidan Gillen who takes over from…

One of State’s Faces of 2011 and Nialler9′s highlight from this year’s Electric Picnic, EleventyFour has released her debut EP The Joy Imperative… (streaming below).
‘The Friend Song’ opens the record with Dorothy Cotter introducing her indoor, outdoor, frizzbee, fair-weather, long-distance, up-all-night, cocktail drinking buddies – a warm fuzzy start to this crisp November morning

The latest single to drop from Bell X1‘s Bloodless Coup… LP, ‘Sugar High’ is set for release on November 25th.
Talking about the background to ‘Sugar High’, Paul Noonan comments:
“Ireland is in ways a microcosm or concentrated dose of the madness that has us all sloshing around in the shit. The song began as

Gambling, whiskey, cheap hotels and cheaper women, the songs of Richmond Fontaine tell the tales of being down and out in Reno, stoned and alone in a trailer park, stagnant lives in Mid-West US of A and some personal anguish as told by the often wounded, sometimes trashy and always larger than life characters met…

Cork-based music director Brendan Canty has made a name for himself as Feel Good Lost with videos for Jape, Moths, Sun Glitters, Boy 8-Bit, Daithí O’Dronaí, Mark Geary and Wintercoats (the gorgeous ‘Working On A Dream’ is below) and this weekend, he presents two gigs in The Pavilion in Cork.
Solar Bears, Sert One and…

The Model in Sligo have launched a new Music Film Festival. SOUND+VISION is a festival celebrating the music film genre through “concert films, musical documentaries, films which popularised major movements in music history, films defined by their soundtracks and landmark moments of musical and cinema history”.
The Model have teamed up with Cinema North West…

The latest, and just freshly titled, musical venture headed by Damon Albarn have posted seven tracks on their Youtube page. Along with Albarn, Rocketjuice and The Moon are made up of Flea (Red Hot Chilli Peppers) and Tony Allen; the band played Marseille over the weekend and uploaded much of the gig for all to…