The Irish Blog Awards are on this weekend. Good luck to music category finalists State.ie, Jim Carroll, Nialler, Kevin & Darragh – each a site worthy of victory! More sad news for Irish music this week, as the Delorentos announced that they’ll part ways after the release of their second album. The Killers have been [...]

We had an almighty time at Primavera Sound ’08 in Barcelona’s Parc del Forum setting on the Mediterranean and we, along with a huge number of Irish music fans, promised to make the return journey this year. Today at noon local time the organisers of the event announced some more of the final line up [...]

This is an album that may not have made many critics’ lists for the Choice Prize (then again no one thought The Script would) but Caller No. 9 snuck onto mine from very much under the radar. The whole point of the Choice Prize is to champion Irish music, and the aim of this feature [...]