Music Reviews

Strange New Places have been present on the Belfast music scene longer than most. Making a name for themselves with...

How do you follow up winning the Northern Ireland Music Prize Album of the year with your debut release? Problem...

Someone once said that the only good thing to come out of Lurgan was the train to Belfast; they obviously...

After a long wait, the Belfast-based quartet’s eponymous debut EP arrives with a clatter. Following on from two tremendous support...

Junk Drawer’s debut album – 2020’s Ready For The House (Art For Blind) – was a great LP that, truth...

Cathal Francis has become a well known name within the Northern Irish music scene in the last few years and...

To try and categorise the music of self proclaimed oddballs Cloakroom Q would be a futile endeavour and their latest...

Reading up on The Wood Burning Savages, the sentiment that they were a resistance band seemed to echo like the...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by blacksmithing - specifically, the process of smithing a sword. I think...

2024 saw Derry duo Tessio round out a breakout year packed full of festival slots and radio play with a...

Let’s get one thing straight: Susi Pagel isn’t here to blend in. Belfast’s reigning pink pop princess has just unleashed...

While some artists are satisfied circling the shadows, TRAMP are poised front and centre, flaunting Bimbofication. Their sound is perplexing...

Almost 10 years since the release of her first single, Sister Ghost has at last bestowed upon us her debut...

With more than 20 years experience of writing, performing and releasing music, Darren Doherty returns with new release Darksides -...

Derry based Alt.Folk artist RUÁ releases ‘The Healing’. An EP that follows in the footsteps of alternative Irish Folk with...