Sound and fury
Thu, Aug 14, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO has long been at the forefront of alternative and underground culture in the United States, and for Deafheaven, whose sound encompasses both black metal and post-rock, the city has meant inspiration, frustration, ambition, hindrance, and realisation.
Read more ...Baile an Salsa - Latin vibe with an Irish twist
Thu, Aug 14, 2014
BAILE AN Salsa, the exciting Irish trad/Latin music fusion band, return to Galway to play Monroe’s Live this Saturday, with doors opening at 9pm.
Read more ...Empires of Light
Thu, Aug 14, 2014
THE BLACK Country is an area of England where the industrial revolution was at its most intense, in cities like Birmingham, Coventry, and Wolverhampton.
Read more ...SugarBeat festival close to selling out
Thu, Aug 14, 2014
DAMIEN DEMPSEY, KeyWest, and The Amazing Apples play the first SugarBeat festival which takes place in Tuam Stadium on Saturday August 23.
Read more ...Mná Mná - women musicians on top
Thu, Aug 14, 2014
SINGERS EMILY Donoghue and Ria Czerniak and the band Mongoose play the Mná Mná Music night at The Cellar Bar on Thursday August 21 at 8pm.
Read more ...Between The Lines @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Aug 14, 2014
BETWEEN THE Lines are metal, but just what kind? Their sound straddles sub-genres as diverse as sludge, thrash, and even grunge.
Read more ...110th Street Late Summer Boat Party
Thu, Aug 14, 2014
JON AVERILL, the head of London based label Shock World Service, and Shock regular and Nightflight DJ Sol O’Carroll will be spinning the decks at the 110th Street Late Summer Boat Party.
Read more ...The Last Friday Club @ Monroe’s
Thu, Aug 14, 2014
THE LAST Friday Club in Monroe’s Backstage Bar, the clubnight for anyone over 30, returns on Friday August 29 at 11pm.
Read more ...The return of Highgrade Express
Thu, Aug 14, 2014
HIGHGRADE EXPRESS, the Galway band led by Jamaican-Irish brothers Howard and Brendan Evans, are returning to live performance.
Read more ...Album review: Field Mouse
Music Reviews Thu, Aug 14, 2014
INDIE MUSIC, in its ‘classic’ sense is the union of two seemingly disparate and incompatible forms into a whole that, in practice, ends up making perfect sense.
Read more ...Album Review: Bear In Heaven
Music Reviews Thu, Aug 14, 2014
SOUTHERN BOYS they may be, but Bear In Heaven’s DNA is not Dixie, but the electronic art-pop of Britain and Germany in the 1980s.
Read more ...Harlem Gospel Choir to play Galway in November
Tue, Aug 12, 2014
THE LEGENDARY Harlem Gospel Choir returns to Ireland in November for a nationwide tour which will take in Galway.
Read more ...Somerville to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
SOMERVILLE, the indie/experimental/soul music project of Corr na Móna’s Maria Somerville plays Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday August 14 at 9pm.
Read more ...Tradiohead in concert tomorrow
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
TRADIOHEAD, THE Galway band who take the music of Radiohead and reimagine it as Irish trad and folk, are in concert tomorrow night.
Read more ...Zeppelin tribute to touch down in Galway
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
NO STAIRWAY, the Galway based Led Zeppelin tribute band will be bringing a heavy dose of ‘Rock and Roll’ to Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Friday August 15.
Read more ...Seamus Walshe - new album
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
IT HAS taken nearly 20 years, but Galway accordionist Seamus Walshe is getting ready to launch his new album, Turas (Journey), with a gig in The Crane Bar.
Read more ...Enter the electronic soundscapes of Tailor Birds
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
TAILOR BIRDS are an electronic neo-folk band whose members hail from the Netherlands and Australia and tonight they play Galway.
Read more ...DeFeKT to make Galway debut @ Factory
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
IRISH ELECTRO powerhouse DeFeKT will make his Galway debut at the Get Boogie night in Factory tomorrow.
Read more ...Cruinniu na mBad trad singing event
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
JOHNNY MOYNIHAN, formerly of Sweeney’s Men and a titan of Irish folk music, will take to the stage as part of An t-Amhran Beo this weekend.
Read more ...Dave Barry @ Massimo tomorrow night
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
DJ Dave Barry (Shuffle!) will take people from Studio 1 to Studio 54, the barrios of New York to the the soul clubs of Detroit with a packed box of 7” vinyl and Lps.
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