Ryan Adams played the Cork Opera House last night.

Friend? have released a sampler for their new EP, due next month.

After taking a year off and sojourning in India, singer-songwriter Tom Baxter is back with a new EP and an upcoming album. The album, Golden, is due in 2011 and Baxter is currently writing and recording material for it. He’s already got the new EP finished, and that should be out later this year. In [...]

I haven’t done one of these posts in a while, but there’s probably no better way to get it out there than saying it on here. Myself and my good friend Michael have started up a football blog concerned with all things Irish. Greenscene.me focuses on Irish players playing in England and Scotland as well [...]

Although I haven’t seen it myself yet, from what I hear, the Workman’s Club is one of Ireland’s finest musical venues. Thus it gives me great pleasure to announce the first gig for the venue. Blitzen Trapper will be performing at the new Dublin establishment on November 22nd. They’ll be playing songs from their entire [...]

Once again, I was a guest on John Barker’s Totally Irish on 98fm on Sunday night. If you tuned in and wanted to know more about what I discussed (apart from my tips for the World Cup), here are the links. The show itself…Totally Irish on 98fm Richter CollectiveAn independent label formed by musicians, who [...]

Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke has an imminent debut album: The Boxer. You may have heard lead single ‘Tenderoni’ already (especially if you ventured over onto Nialler9‘s blog recently, he loves it), but you may not have known that Kele is running a remix competition. Full details can be found here, if you wish to [...]

Noticed this embeddable album stream over on Nialler9 during my daily browse of Ireland’s best music blogs. He says that this album went under his radar, and a little birdy told me that it was because of yours truly that it did find its way onto said radar. Now whether that is true or not, [...]

Former Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable was found dead this morning, according to police reports. A cause of death has not yet been confirmed, but police have said the death is not suspicious. Cable, 40, had been the drummer in Welsh band Stereophonics from their foundation in 1992 to 2003 when he was sacked for spending [...]

Ireland’s internet sensations Crystal Swing invited Lily Allen on stage to sing ‘He Drinks Tequila’ with them at the Flat Lake Festival. Check it out below…