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Sep 19, 2024 | 
xsnoize.com | Big Black |Suzanne Vega |Hüsker Dü |Aaron Kavanagh
Formed by outcast high school students with similar music tastes in the small Norwegian city of Stavanger in 2013, the pop-punk band Sløtface have been on a perpetual increase of notoriety since they began releasing music in 2014. However, in 2022, following two albums, six EPs, and extensive tours, founding members Tor-Arne Vikingstad and Lasse Lokøy announced that they were leaving the band. However, frontperson Haley Shea was not deterred and continued the band despite this huge blow.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
xsnoize.com | Big Black |Suzanne Vega |Hüsker Dü |Aaron Kavanagh
Saturday, August 24th, 2024, was not a good day to be in the middle of Dublin City. The annual Aer Lingus College Football series brought the American football teams representing Georgia Tech and Florida State University to the Aviva Stadium in Dublin 4, which itself wasn’t much of an obstruction, but the City Council decided to shut down all traffic on Dame Street in Dublin 2 for the game, despite it being nowhere near the stadium, which disrupted many commuters’ routes.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
xsnoize.com | Big Black |Suzanne Vega |Hüsker Dü |Aaron Kavanagh
Suppose you talk to any Irish person within a certain age bracket. In that case, there’s a good chance you’ll hear a humble brag about how they saw U2 before they broke big, which can generally mean anytime between their first couple of gigs as The Hype to the release of their second album, October (although, some particularly cheeky bastards will extend that definition to any time before The Joshua Tree-era).
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Apr 13, 2024 | 
headstuff.org | Aaron Kavanagh
Up On Gravity Hill might be a masterclass in how an album’s production can completely dictate our perception of an artist.
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Nov 11, 2023 | 
buzz.ie | Aaron Kavanagh
On Halloween evening, the near-twenty-year-old London indie band Bombay Bicycle Club performed an in-store gig at the Golden Discs at St Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre. “It was fantastic,” the band’s bassist, Ed Nash, told the Irish Daily Star, the following day. “A lot of people turned up, and it’s always lovely that people come to see us play something like that, and then to talk to people afterwards. We signed some records and got to say hey to some people. It never grows old.
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
headstuff.org | Aaron Kavanagh
I Have a Tribe is the brainchild of the Dublin singer-songwriter Patrick O’Laoghaire, and Changing of the Guard is the project’s first album since 2016’s Beneath a Yellow Moon. Changing of the Guard is chocked full of O’Laoghaire’s abstract poetic prose, which contains seemingly free-associating lyrics with epic connotations.
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Aug 13, 2023 | 
buzz.ie | Aaron Kavanagh
Once primed to become the biggest pop group in Britain, the London new wave act Haircut 100’s momentum was prematurely cut short soon after the release of their debut album Pelican West in 1982, when their frontman and primary songwriter Nick Heyward left the band for personal reasons. Yet, in that time, Haircut 100’s music has still resonated with a vast audience.
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May 23, 2023 | 
buzz.ie | Aaron Kavanagh
DJ Joel Corry is a man who requires no introduction. Garnering attention for his remixes of songs by artists like Ed Sheeran, Elton John and Stormzy, the English native has gone on to have his own chart topping success with house anthems like Head & Heart and has collaborated with the likes of Becky Hill, David Guetta, Raye and Charli XCX.
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May 9, 2023 | 
buzz.ie | Aaron Kavanagh |Mark Kavanagh
For several years, the socially-conscious, queer, eclectic alternative Brighton music duo ARXX have been garnering a lot of praise in the British musical press and have been enjoying healthy airplay on their national radio. For Irish audiences, their introduction to the band may have come last autumn when they supported Pillow Queens on their Irish tour. Recently, the band came back for of six headlining dates across Cork, Kilkenny, Galway, Dublin, Limerick, and Belfast.
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Feb 20, 2023 | 
xsnoize.com | Big Black |Suzanne Vega |Aaron Kavanagh
Isle of Wight rising stars Coach Party have spent the past year honing their explosive live show, playing over 120 shows in total. Particular live highlights included the 100k capacity Stade de France supporting Indochine, a headline tour which included London’s Oslo, supporting The Mysterines in the spring, and Wet Leg on their sold-out winter tour across the UK and Europe. This week they return to Belfast for their first headline show at Voodoo with support from Casual Riots.
