Album review: Pillow Queens
Music Reviews Thu, Sep 24, 2020
THE OPENING lines of opening track, 'Holy Show', present a picture of physical intimacy between two women, which is surprising for both its frankness, but also its tenderness.
Read more ...Chris Haze - live on stage
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
CHRIS HAZE, the Galway singer-songwriter, has announced his first socially distanced live show of 2020, taking place in the Róisín Dubh on Friday September 30.
Read more ...HOST releases new single - 'Borderline'
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
SYNTH-POP artist HOST will release her new song and video, ‘Borderline’ tomorrow, Friday September 25. The song was inspired by "the ugly, but totally normal stages of a breakup".
Read more ...Sean Keane - Live in Galway!
Sat, Sep 19, 2020
Sean Keane - Live in Galway
This Saturday night, you can watch Sean Keane Live in Galway from your living room, anywhere in the world!
Album review: Suzanne Vega
Music Reviews Thu, Sep 17, 2020
WITH COVID-19 resulting in live shows becoming very small affairs and restricting artists to touring within their own national borders, the live album has - as it was during its 1970s heyday - become again one of the few ways to experience an artist in concert.
Read more ...Steve and Joe Wall - acoustic shows at the Róisín
Mon, Sep 14, 2020
STEVE AND Joe Wall of The Stunning and The Walls are coming to the Róisín Dubh to perform four acoustic, stripped down, socially distant, gigs.
Read more ...Niamh Regan - new album, Oranmore Arts Festival show
Thu, Sep 10, 2020
GALWAY SINGER-songwriter, Niamh Regan, who has just released her debut album, Hemet, will perform at the Oranmore Arts Festival's online show - Bean/She.
Read more ...Album review: The Flaming Lips
Music Reviews Thu, Sep 10, 2020
NO ATHEIST has ever written about death in a manner as grimly final as that found in the Bible: "For thou art dust, and unto dust shalt thou return".
Read more ...Maria Shiel - debut album launch at Galway Summer Garden
Thu, Sep 10, 2020
MARIA SHIEL, the acclaimed West of Ireland singer-songwriter, will launch her debut album, Fire In The Sea!, with a show at the Galway Summer Garden this Saturday, September 12.
Read more ...Róisín Dubh reopens with string of September gigs
Tue, Sep 08, 2020
RÓISÍN DUBH, the award winning music and comedy venue on Dominick Street re-opens its doors today, and will present a string of shows throughout September.
Read more ...ConTempo - concerts online and in person
Thu, Aug 27, 2020
WHAT DO you get when you cross the ConTempo Quartet with jazz musicians? JazzTempo! To close the summer, Galway Music Residency is hosting a special live streamed concert tomorrow (Friday August 28) at 1pm.
Read more ...EVØKE releases debut EP
Thu, Aug 27, 2020
REVELATIONS, the debut EP by Loughrea indie/pop/folk-trad quartet EVØKE is released today - Thursday August 27 - and limited edition physical copies will be available.
Read more ...Paddy Hanna - new single, new album
Mon, Aug 24, 2020
ECCENTRIC, BRILLIANT, unpredictable, Paddy Hanna is one of the most original voices in contemporary Irish music, a point he proves again on his new single, 'Colosseum'.
Read more ...'Can I Speak To A Manager?' - The Clockworks release new single
Thu, Aug 13, 2020
TOMORROW, FRIDAY August 14, The Clockworks - one of the most exciting bands to come out of Galway in recent years - will release their new single, 'Can I Speak To A Manager?'.
Read more ...New youth music hubs for Ballinasloe and Clifden
Thu, Aug 13, 2020
FROM SEPTEMBER, young people and children in County Galway will have access to two new Music Hubs – one in Ballinasloe, the other in Clifden.
Read more ...Bell X1's Paul Noonan to perform show for children
Thu, Aug 13, 2020
BELL X1 frontman Paul Noonan will perform a concert for children as part of the 2020 Baboró International Arts Festival for Children.
Read more ...Fontaines DC ready to take next step with A Hero's Death
Thu, Aug 06, 2020
Making it in the world of music is never easy and random meetings of minds and lucky breaks along with hard work, are all key parts of what can make or break you.
Read more ...Rusted Rail releasing new single from Galway's A Lilac Decline
Thu, Aug 06, 2020
Rusted Rail will be releasing the new single from Galway's A Lilac Decline (the indie/shoegaze/folk-rock alter ego of visual artist Cecilia Danell) tomorrow via Bandcamp.
Read more ...The Coronas are coming to Galway
Thu, Jul 30, 2020
THE CORONAS, one of Ireland's most popular bands, release their new album, True Love Waits, with a whistle-stop tour of Ireland, which includes Galway.
Read more ...Album review: Fontaines D.C.
Music Reviews Thu, Jul 30, 2020
THE OPENING riff of the title track to Fontaines D.C.’s new album will have people of a certain age feel a need to cry, “Last night, she said, Oh, baby, I feel so down…”
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