Alex Gallacher

‘A Different Thread’, the transatlantic duo Alicia Best (USA) and Robert Jackson (UK) are back with a new single and album. Watch their new video for Didn’t Wanna Go which was filmed in Bristol.

In follow-up to her critically acclaimed 2020 debut, Tenci (Jess Shoman) shares new single and video Two Cups from her forthcoming new album A Swollen River, A Well Overflowing.

Watch “Frost Is All Over”, the new single from Dundalk’s finest, The Mary Wallopers, taken from their forthcoming debut album due in the Autumn when the band head out on a major tour of the UK and Ireland.

The gloves are on, and the head is down; Rachael Dadd is bobbing and weaving and looks like she’s ready to do some serious business on her new single and video ‘Heads Down’ – a slick and catchy number, just like the video. Also our Song of the Day.

This is Eli Winter’s A Love Supreme moment; like Coltrane’s masterpiece, this album’s most profound qualities lie in its sense of unity, transcendence and hope. It’s a landmark album and the perfect ten.

Morr Music have announced a follow-up to their 2020 Japanese Indie Underground Music Compilation Minna Miteru. Minna Miteru 2 repeatedly catches you unawares, upending your expectations and signalling both the breadth and depth of the Japanese indie underground. 

Damien Jurado visits Amoeba Music Record Store in Hollywood and selects some of his favourite albums including Scott Walker, Jessica Pratt, Fugazi, King Crimson and more.

To follow up the announcement of Shebang, Oren Ambarchi’s delicious new offering on Drag City, check out his second single and video for Shebang II, as the elements blossom into a rigorously snapped-to fusion funk.

Watch Poor Creature, the new duo project from Ruth Clinton of Landless and Cormac MacDiarmada of Lankum, in a special BYOL Session to launch Féile na Gréine in Limerick City.

Canadian garage-country-rock band The Sadies share live video of them performing Stop and Start ahead of their Canadian and European tour dates.

Minru is the project of Caroline Blomqvist. Watch her performing ‘Light End’ live, taken from her debut release ‘Liminality’, an album that revels in its space, with jazz and orchestral flourishes to its warm folk-ish spectral pop.

Directed by Ellius Grace, Junior Brother has shared a moving new video for ‘This is my Body’, the second album single from his forthcoming new album “The Great Irish Famine”, out on September 2nd via Strange Brew.