Famous for their ability to craft unknowingly brilliant rock/dance toons, The Music are back to share their dulcet tones after a four-year gap. More focused than before, the boys take care of the much-publicized issues of singer Robert Harvey. While that means that drugs and depression are the matter at hand for most of the album, it's not clichéd, and it's not depressing. ...

Driving By Night have peddled their version of melancholia tinged rock for quite a few years now. They've played some prestigious shows, shown unquestionable dedication and somewhere along the way acquired the tag "Belfast's hardest working band". Not the most coveted title you'd imagine. Surely it's much better to be recognised as Belfast's most talented, most promising, most entertaining or most interesting band ...

It is a cheery, DM-booted audience who greet Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks as they bound onstage to perform the last show of their European tour promoting new album Real Emotional Trash. This is an audience dotted with musical faces from throughout Ireland’s music scene, and the carefully swept to the left side-partings and faded skinny t-shirts indicate more than a handful of dedicated ...