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Dean: A92’s Debut Mixtape “92 Degrees” is Red-Hot Irish Drill
“I like a certain amount of tradition, such as the long-form music project, and ‘92 Degrees’ is, for me, the most complete drill release this island has produced yet. If this isn’t the best Irish album in a while, it’s for sure the hardest.”
Dean: Róisín Murphy’s Time is Now
“In a way, Róisín Machine finally brings her around to the kind of record that might have launched her star in the mid-2000s,” writes Dean Van Nguyen on the Irish disco musician.
A Dublin Trad Band’s Tribute to a Forgotten Irish Poet
In The Connacht Peep Show, by The Deadlians, the poems of Seumas O’Kelly are set to melodies. “His poems are a bit melancholic but there is a bit of humour in them,” says singer Sean Fitzgerald.
A Singing Group Widens Its Circle of Trad Enthusiasts
An Góilín is going strong after 40 years, still opening the floor – or more recently a Zoom window – to all who want to sing trad.
Dean: Gemma Dunleavy Shows Love to Sheriff Street
“The video for ‘Up De Flats’ is a show of hometown pride in a corner of the city too often degraded and denigrated.”
Dean: Ailbhe Reddy and Kean Kavanagh Write Mantras on Heartbreak and Wasted Days
Ailbhe Reddy’s “Personal History” and Kean Kavanagh’s “Dog Person” are two debut albums with vastly different perspectives on coming-of-age in the city.
Dean: Pillow Queens Won’t Wait for the Spin to Die
“In Waiting” is “a classic Irish guitar music debut, a proud affirmation of queerness, the power and the peril of organised religion, and a love letter to Dublin”.
No Clear Vision For Dublin’s Music Scene to Step Out of Covid-19 Restrictions, Some Say
Vinny Casey, venue manager at The Workman’s Club, said that it’s like the government doesn’t see music venues as something they have to deal with.
An Experimental Music Festival Set in Nature Logs On
Biosphere also aims to start a conversation on the climate crisis, and make the music industry more conscious about its own impact on the environment.
Dean: God Knows and the Art of Crew Rap
“Perhaps the most interesting thing about the ‘Who’s Asking’ remixes is that they assert the idea of sub-scenes within the Irish rap lexicon.”
Dean: Adam Garrett Serves His Pop-Funk Slow and Low
“Garrett’s voice is an interesting instrument. For sure he’s a smooth performer, but his singing conveys an unusual and expressive tension.”
In Sheriff Street, a Musician Draws Inspiration from Her Surroundings
Up De Flats is the first full EP by Gemma Dunleavy and is a love letter to the tight-knit community of Sheriff Street in the north inner-city.