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Track: Black Water County – The Only Life Worth Living

Hailing from the South West and now celebrating a decade making music together, the award-winningBlack Water County have released a new single, ‘The Only Life Worth Living’, which is the…

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Track: Gemma Hayes Returns With New Single ‘High & Low’

Irish singer-songwriter Gemma Hayes beautiful new single ‘High & Low’ sees her return with her first release in nine years. The Mercury Prize nominee’s last release was the critically acclaimed album Bones &…

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Gallery: The Swell Season / Leah Moran – Vicar Street, Dublin 13.07.2023

On Thursday, July 13th, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, or The Swell Season, took to Vicar Street to celebrate the 15th anniversary of their Academy Award winning musical film ‘Once’.…

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Track: Bishopskin – Stella Splendens

Had anyone told me that the catchiest song of Summer 2023 would be a postmodern folk take on a 14th century hymn, complete with lyrics in Medieval Latin, I would…

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Album Review: Me Lost Me – RPG : folk music of the future now

Folk music for today, what’s that then? Playing the old songs in new ways? Playing new songs in the old ways? Maybe the one tradition that’s certain is that the…

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Gallery: Damien Dempsey / Starsailor – Iveagh Gardens, Dublin 07.07.2023

Last night, July 7th, Damien Dempsey kicked off this year’s ‘Live At The Iveagh Gardens’ series with the first of his two sold-out nights. The self-proclaimed ‘Irish Royalty’ took to…

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Track: Ida Mae – Lost On Your Time

British duo Ida Mae have shared their new single ‘Lost On Your Time’, taken from their eagerly-awaited third studio album ‘Thunder Above You’ due on the 25th of August. Adding about…

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News: Goat Release The Soundtrack For The BBC’s ‘The Gallows Pole’

Goat return with ‘The Gallows Pole’, their second soundtrack album, following their score for the 2017 British independent horror film ‘Double Date’. The Gallows Pole is a three-part Element Pictures production, written and directed by Shane Meadows that is being…

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Track: Huck Hastings and Tesse have an ‘Unreasonable Doubt’ and it’s definitely a luscious and languorous track.

Huck Hastings has a permanent place in the heart of Backseat Mafia’s antipodean outpost with his always delicate and yearning tracks – whether as a solo artist, part of the…

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Track: Juice Webster is ‘Returning’ with a heart-breakingly beautiful track and news of debut album.

It seems to have been a while since we reviewed the epic 2021 EP ‘More Than Reaction’ from Juice Webster and while we might have missed material since then, it…

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