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Salt Lake City based indie rock quintet Krooked Kings sold 13,000 tickets on the west coast of North America before the release of their last album All Out Of Good Days. Krooked Kings are a DIY success story who have built a fan base on the back of a committed touring schedule, driving guitars and …

Following a string of EPs and singles, synthpop outfit Magnetic Skies have announced their dramatic debut album Empire Falling will be released on 3rd November, which follows their next single ‘Fading Lights’, out 1st September. With their debut album Empire Falling, rising synthpop group Magnetic Skies are set to release a brand new single, the compelling ‘Fading Lights’ which will be out …

British heavyweights Heart of a Coward have released a video for their new single ‘Surrender to failure’. The track is taken from the band’s upcoming album “This Place Only Brings Death”, due for release on 22nd September. ”Surrender to Failure” delves deep into themes of despair, internal struggle, and self-doubt. The new single evokes a …

Boygenius finished off their Europen tour with a night at Dublins Royal Hospital Kilmainham and it was the bands Irish debut. Boygenius photos & set-list: Intro (The Boys Are Back in Town-Thin Lizzy song)Without You Without Them (from backstage)$20SatanistEmily I’m SorryTrue BlueCool About ItSouvenirBite the HandRevolution 0Stay DownLeonard CohenPlease Stay (Lucy Dacus song)Favor (Julien Baker …

For the scond last night of the Wider Than Pictures series at National Museum of Ireland-Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks, it was the turn of Mick Fannery to take the headline slot and opening the night were Valerie June and Susan O’Neill. The latter being the first on stage. Photos David McEneaney Susan O’Neill …

Music is the universal language for a group of people who all come from vastly different corners of the earth. Lead singer Matt Lowell is from Long Island, Crisanta Baker (guitar, bass, keys) from Denver, Sam Stewart (guitar) from London and Sterling Laws (drums) from Anacortes, WA; Los Angeles was their eventual meeting place. It …

From The Tan Jackets: “Hello. We’re The Tan Jackets. You may have seen us over the past few years in your local bar trippin’ over all your favourite rock ‘n’ roll twisters. We play Rock And Roll music, it is true! What else is true is that we have been kicking out the jams in …

There’s a surprising relationship at the centre of Sofia Kourtesis’ debut album Madres. An album in large part dedicated to her mother, there’s also another person, one without whom this album would never have been made. Peter Vajkoczy. Vajkoczy is a neurosurgeon, one of the very best neurosurgeons in the world in fact, and Madres …

Pop iconoclast Zheani released her independently-released mixtape The Spiritual Meat Grinder. The nine-track project is a baptism of fire into her electronic underworld and delivers on her reputation as the floor-filling anarchist we’ve all been waiting for.  ”When you’re in The Spiritual Meat Grinder spiralling in the absurd, you may as well be a freak and have a …

Irish 80s/90s rock band Cry Before Dawn are back touring and just finished of a summer tour of Irealnd with a night at Kilkennys Ballykeeffe Amphitheatre, support for the night came from Tadhg Williams. Tadhg Williams photos: Cry Before Dawn photos & set-list: VictoriansIs This What You Waited ForThe Seed Thats Been SownOpen WaterYesterday’s GirlSilly …