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Council plans to turn St Werburgh’s church into 250-seat venue
The idea is for this spot next to Dublin Castle to host choirs, chamber music, trad music, poetry performances, and more.
Dean: KhakiKid and Travy are among the Irish rap elite
They’re “a pair of gifted boy wonders on very different ends of the stylistic spectrum from each other”.
Dean: Jehnova is getting even better
He “should be international by now. But the world doesn’t always appreciate the gifted”.
Dean: Brigid Mae Power’s covers album is a classic of the form
The Galway native’s connection to the music on Songs for You “feels personal”.
Dean: Maria Kelly and Crispy Jason soothe the soul
With her debut album “the sum of the in-between”, and his four-song EP “Shadowcon One”.
Dean: Mandalus makes electronic music with Grand Theft Auto cool
The Dublin producer, also known as Des Foley, remixed a version of the Genesis song “That’s All” for the forthcoming GTA 6. Sort of.
At TU Dublin’s recital hall, a group of artists performs the city’s housing crisis as music
“Housing Data ~ Sonified” is a work in two parts. An introductory overture, and the main composition which is spread across 10 short movements.
From ambient electronic music to 70s and 80s Japanese pop, DJ Emmy Shigeta brings the sound of Tokyo to Smithfield
It’s music you’d be unlikely to hear anywhere else in the city, says musician Robbie Stickland, who often goes to her six-hour weekly slot at Fidelity on Queen Street.
Dean: Rebel Phoenix waited, witnessed, and finally released his opus
“The long-awaited Museum feels right on time, offering the scene a potent shot of adrenalin.”
In Skerries, a circle gathers to share songs, one after another
“We just set up the kind of group that we wanted, informal, where you could come to sing or simply listen,” says Sara Dennedy, of the Skerries Folk Group.
Dean: Rapper Luka Palm’s new EP is fast and furious
It’s “an ode to boys who modify their Ford Fiestas with gleaming rims, booming sound systems, gaudy LED lights and spoilers the size of Samuel Beckett Bridge”.
Big, loud, messy and ramshackle, the Onion Boys play The Hut in Phibsboro
For 30 minutes, the band delivered a blistering set of theatrical punk and monstrous rock ‘n’ roll, saturated in sweat, Buckfast Tonic Wine and milk.