Sweden’s extraordinary drums and vocals duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums return with new album The Snake, the fierce follow up to their intoxicating debut, Heartcore.
Heartcore… introduced vocalist Mariam Wallentin and her percussionist husband Andreas Werliin to the world outside their lively Gothenburg scene and wound up as one of 2008′s hidden treasures. The

Singer/songwriter, or in her own words “a songwriter who sings”, Polly Scattergood brings her fragile storytelling to Crawdaddy on Tuesday April 21st, tickets €12 available from Ticketmaster, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets.
Polly, described as “A little bit Joanna Newsom, a little bit Regina Spektor and a little bit Bjork but she very…

Currently causing mayhem at SXSW, the Watford rockers Gallows have announced a headline show in The Academy on Tuesday 26 May. Tickets priced €16 incl. booking fee are on sale now at all usual outlets.
“Gallows played a typically raucous show tonight (March 18) at the South By Southwest festival, with frontman Frank Carter spending…

The New studio album from Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club -The Beautiful Untrue’ is scheduled to be released in Ireland on April the 24th.
The album features some extraordinary guest vocal performances from two of Irelands up and coming female singers Imelda May and Carol Keogh (Automata, Tychonaut).
The first Single to be taken…

Lily Allen is boss. End of. A supposed symbol of our modern day youth culture Lily is as far removed from our average 23 year old as Channel 4′s Skins… is from teenage kicks in suburban Ireland. However her appeal is wide and tonight’s attendance at The Academy is as varied a cross section of

For tonight’s show, The Academy hasn’t looked so intimate and cosy since the days of HQ with the floor kitted out in seats and the stage adorned in tall sitting room-lamps and fairy lights. Opening the show tonight are Island Line or Hazel and Ian to their friends, a super cute blonde with a saccharine…

South Bronx native June joins forces with Glasvegas and The Soundmen to bring you his new single, ‘Stabbed’ . Download here.
You can also follow June on twitter.
Combining June’s creative lyricism with genre bending production, this record creates a sound that will resonate from the streets of New York to the hills of Scotland.…

Dublin electro acoustic quartet Halfset are playing the Belltable Theatre in Limerick on Saturday March 21st. Support will come from Adrian Crowley. Tickets €10 / €8 concession.
Halfset employ a combination of electronics and live instruments – including vocals, drums/percussion, guitars, glockenspiel, harp, trumpet, mandola and old analog synths. They released Another Way of Being …

Mogwai‘s Saturday night show at The Academy is now sold out. Tickets are still available for Friday March 20th and Sunday 22nd priced €30 incl. booking fee.
Stuart and Barry will also be hitting the decks after Friday’s gig as special guest DJs for The Academy’s No Disko clubnight.
Check out the terrifying video for…

The fifth album from Adrian Crowley, Season Of The Sparks comes to light just over a year after Long Distance Swimmer… his Choice Music Prize- nominated breakthrough record.
Written almost in its entirety in Adrian’s attic the album was co -produced by Stephen Shannon and Crowley at Experimental Audio in Dublin. The recordings were made

Veteran roots harmony trio The Mighty Diamonds perform hits from their 40 year career, including roots reggae classics from their sublime albums Right Time and Deeper Roots… in Crawdaddy on Wednesday April 1st. Enduringly famous for their sweet, soulful song-writing, conveying spiritual and socio-political themes, the trio has continued to produce the best of roots

Disconnect 4, the Galway 4-piece, are taking to the road.
13.03.09: Academy 2, Dublin – with New Amusement
14.03.09: Roisin Dubh, Galway – Support from Funeral Suits & The Ralphs
27.03.09: Whelans, Dublin – with The Minutes & Sickboy
26.04.09: Whelans, Dublin – with Talulah Does The Hula
30.04.09: Radar, Belfast – with Ed Zealous…

The Cardigans’ Nina Perssons brings her side project, A Camp, along with special guest Kristofer Ã…ström to Dublin in support of her new album Colonia…. Nina and co. play the Academy on Wednesday 29 April. Tickets priced €16 incl. booking fee are on sale now at all usual Ticketmaster outlets.
Kristofers new album Sinkadus

Brooklyn-based Dirty Projectors are set to release their new album early this year and can be currently heard collaborating with David Byrne for the Red Hot compilation Dark Was the Night….
The nu-jazz project are teaming up with Mercury Award nominated Polar Bear and L.A. experimentalists Lucky Dragons for what promises to be a