Music Reviews

Having been described as "a trio of energetic musicians from Belfast", The Dandy Horses are a quaint little three piece...

It’s funny how so called “alternative” bands are actually quite conservative, musically speaking. For a genre that prides itself...

  Some bands tread water, each album is a reiteration of their debut, their sophomore and their comeback. All Hail...

The three sisters that make up the Staves are not your quintessential pop-stars. Indeed their soothing folk sensibilities distinctly stand...

At 49 years old Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith is still going strong and although he is not the most well-known...

The Pigeon Detectives are releasing their fourth album to date ‘We met at Sea’ in April and it would seem...

The Joy Formidable have a growing reputation in the rock world, this Welsh rock band have supported both the Foo...

The Bayonettes new EP Rebellious Melodies For Teens & Nymphos is the follow up to the Coleraine based trio’s debut...

Zia Regime’s For Neither God Nor Master has been highly anticipated. Forming in 2009 and releasing their first EP The...

Post rock, new grunge, alternative, whatever other vague sub-genre you want to slap it with, you have to face facts:...

“You gotta believe in yourself, you gotta believe, gather up the things put it back together, life’s a funny thing...

  British rockers Heaven’s Basement are, essentially, a proper, old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll band. Heavily influenced by other like-minded bands...

Everyone will be able to very much relate to this debut EP from Dundalk’s Sinead McNally. The message in “10,000”...

Folk has had a bit of a make over in the enchanting first EP from Marika Hackman,“That Iron Taste”. This...

“This morning I wrote you a letter, I didn’t know what else to do, I put down everything that I...