Cathal Ryan is a Limerick-based journalist interviewing bands for the paper and reporting the news. He writes about the ...

David Balfe is the creator of my favourite Irish release of 2021 for the For Those I Love album and project. See Dave's lists ...

The Nialler9 Gig Guide for January 7th to 13th. The Gig Guide is published weekly every Tuesday and features the best gigs in Dublin city, curated by Nialler9. All door times are 7:30pm/8pm unless ...

Gig Guide Highlights: The Mary Wallopers, Merchy Christmas, Yule!, Ahmed, With Love., Pillow Queens, Beak>, Sarah Crean, Stella Bossi, Confidence Man, Julia Holter ...

Taking the wilds of Donegal as inspiration, Connor Dougan aka Deathbed Convert, approached this project with an idea of inverting the norm of field recordings. Instead of imbueing the recorded music ...

RÓIS is a Fermanagh composer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and electronic artist, who released the brilliant EP Mo Léan that placed highly on my Irish albums of the year. Over to RÓIS… As I write ...

Rory Sweeney is a Dublin producer, DJ and sound artist who is one-third of the Irish/US Experimental rave collective Bitten Twice, and who has collaborated with Curtisy, Pippa Molony, EMBY, Ahmed, ...

His 2023 song ‘Moments’ has gone viral on Spotify’s charts in USA, Ireland, UK, Canada, Norway, Denmark and New Zealand. It’s currently #1 in all of those charts. It all started when MOIO posted a Tik ...

Conor O’Brien released his sixth Villagers album That Golden Time this year, along with new single ‘Mountain Out Of A Molehill’. An intimate, tape-hissy early demo version of the opening track from ...

Merch and Record Fair featuring local artists and record dealers to commemorate the first anniversary of the release of Live at Record Room vinyl. Nialler9 has been covering new music, new artists and ...

Graham plays hip-hop tunes every second Friday in the Workmans at Exit Music. You can also catch him DJing in Love Tempo, The Big Romance, Fidelity and beyond. When not buying €20 7” bootleg represses ...

JWY is a Dublin-based DJ with roots in Ghana, India and Surinam, born in Amsterdam. Jo-Ann Ahia is a founder of foxgluv, which is an inclusive platform specifically created to highlight female, ...