30 Seconds to Mars played the O2 Dublin 26th February 2010 supported on the night by Dublin band Fox Avenue and Los Angeles band Street Drum Corps. For a small band Fox Avenue played the still-gathering crowd with all the confidence of a well known band, at one stage giving a shout out to their [...]

The Post War Musical is the début album from Irish band Pilotlight. Recorded in France in Black Box Studios, a converted stables in Noyant La Gravoyere, the album took two weeks to put together. It produced by David Odlum, who has previously worked with acts such as The Frames and Gemma Hayes

The Beat Poets released their most recent four-track EP The Making on November 30th 2009, ahead of their debut album, which is set for release in 2010. The EP contains four tracks:  The Making, Bloodline, Race and a second version of The Making.

Releasing an experimental album as a first offering is a brave move for an artist. It must be done under the assumption that what you believe to be good music will be well received by enough people to scramble together a fan base and that it will sell, either records or tickets. Dublin musician Hitman [...]

October 16th saw the release of Shoot Me a debut EP from Dublin based band Soundproof. The band, 3 brothers, Ste, Neilo and Puss, and their friend Rosie formed in 2006 and have since played in venues like Whelan’s, The Button Factory, The Sugar Club and Eamon Doran’s. The EP contains three tracks Shoot Me, [...]

Back in the day, before musicians were churned out from the assembly line of reality TV, pop music used to be different. Before the electronically recorded monotonous thumping beats and digitally enhanced voices it was a respectable genre. There was no miming to pre-recorded tracks, only drums and guitars, and in the place of emaciated [...]

Vivarium is the debut mini-album from Twin Atlantic, otherwise known as Sam McTrusty, Barry McKenna, Ross McNae and Craig Kneale. In case the names haven’t already given it away, the band formed in Glasgow in March 2007 and by December that year released their first single Audience And Audio.

Colours is the energetic debut album from Kildare 5 piece Reemo. The band are Stephen Connolly, Paul McGlue, Conleth Dunne, Alan Connolly and Igor Biasini.

Busy Whisper is everything a good acoustic album should be; unassuming and unpretentious. Easily one of the best albums of 2009. It’s refreshingly different and offers a lot more than most.

Krazy 88 formed in the small town of Newton in 2005, starting out as a 3 piece pop-punk band with limited success. After a few stylistic changes they became the band they are today. Falling somewhere between the region of pop and emo they have drawn comparisons to bands like Simple Plan, Busted and McFly. [...]