Muse will play the most intimate performance of their curent tour tonight when they appear at Stubb’s of Austin, Texas as part of the South by Southwest festival. The opening act on the night will be Metric.
For anyone who didn’t make the journey this year, the good news is that the show will…

The Unthanks will bring their unique folk stylings to Cork when they play the Pavilion on March 26th. Their album, The Bairns, was nominated for the 2007 Mercury Award and was recently named one of the Album’s of the Decade by Uncut and The Guardian.
Tickets cost €18.50 including booking fee and are available…

Australian singer-songwriter Xavier Rudd has released a video for ‘Time to Smile’. The song is taken from his fourth album, Koonysum Sun, which is due to hit the shelves in April.

Currently locked away in a remote Mexican farmhouse to record the follow up to their dubut, Tentacles, Crystal Antlers will make a welcome return to Whelan’s on April 28th as part of a European tour.
Tickets are priced at €16 including booking fee and are on sale now from www.tickets.ie, Road Records, City Discs,…

At the end of the 1980’s Dublin found itself at the centre of a miniature musical revolution. Well, perhaps that’s stretching it a bit but there certainly were some excellent bands knocking around at the time. Bands like A House, The Pale, Something Happens, Fatima Mansions, An Emotional Fish and Whipping Boy. Power of…

Meteor is currently putting the finishing touches to its new TV and Radio commercial and is now looking for recommendations as to what song should feature on the ad.
If you’re in a band and would like to have your song considered – or even if you just want to nominate your favourite tune…

Adrian Crowley is the winner of this year’s Choice Music Prize. A panel of 12 music media professionals chose Crowley’s Season of the Sparks as 2009’s Irish album of the year ahead of last night’s presentation at Vicar St., which also saw performances from eight of the 10 nominees.
As his reward, Crowley receives…

The first acts confirmed for this year’s Europavox festival have been named. Peter Doherty, Gaëtan Roussel, Arno, Rachid Taha (featuring Mick Jones) and Hocus Pocus will all be making the trip to the French town of Clermont-Ferrand in May.
The full line-up will be released at the end of the month.

With a new album due in May and a slot booked at this Year’s South by Southwest festival, Scott Weiland & Co. are also embarking on a European tour, which includes a stop-off at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on June 14th.
Tickets go on sale from Ticketmaster and usual outlets this Friday, priced at €49.20…

Northern boys And So I Watch You From Afar are gearing-up for tomorrow night’s Choice Music Prize ceremony with an in-store performance this evening at Tower Records on Dublin’s Wicklow Street. The show starts at 7pm.

Estelle has released a stream for her new song, ‘Freak’, which will feature on the forthcoming album, All of Me. The track features Kardinal Offishall and was produced by David Guetta.

Last week saw London’s Brixton Academy play host to the annual Shockwaves NME Awards. The show was presented by the perpetually dapper Jarvis Cocker and featured performances from Kasabian, The Specials, The Maccabees, Biffy Clyro and Marina & The Diamonds, The Big Pink and Lily Allen, Hole, and Paul Weller.
Here’s the full list…

The 2010 Shockwaves NME Awards were broadcast on Channel 4 over the weekend. Amongst the highlights was a performance from Scottish alt-rockers Biffy Clyro, which saw them team up with Marina & the Diamonds for a rendition of ‘Many of Horror’.
Biffy Clyro also picked up a ‘Best Video’ gong on the night for…

Let’s hope Two Door Cinema Club have broad shoulders because there’s a hell of a lot of expectation weighing down on them. Insiders have been murmuring for months about the band and their music and how they were picked up by ultra cool French label Kitsuné Music. And how they remixed a track for…