Judy Collins has had a music career which has spanned seven decades. As a child she studied classical piano before picking up guitar to play covers of well known folk songs. As her career progressed Collins then started covering songs of then unknown writers, including Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. She also won a Grammy award for her original rendition [...]

Public Service Broadcasting at The Button Factory on May 31st 2013 Public Service Broadcasting have travelled the length and breadth of both the UK and Ireland on this tour, before arriving for a show in The Button Factory in Dublin in support of their debut album, ‘Inform – Educate – Entertain’. Borrowing the album’s title from the BBC’s charter, the [...]

Luke Sital-Singh in The Little Museum of Dublin on May 22nd 2013 When we think of music venues, we normally think of dark sweaty places where all too often you get to know your neighbour a little too much more than you had anticipated, and a pint costs an arm and a leg. Trying to reinvent what we associate is [...]

Little Green Cars release their debut album this week. Vanessa Monaghan caught up with three of the band, Stevie Appleby, Adam O’Reagan and Faye O’Rourke to chat about their work. It’s been a long day for Little Green Cars. Media days can be tough, especially if it’s a high profile debut release. Everyone wants a piece of you. When Goldenplec [...]

The scene was set. Friday night, the first night of the Bank Holiday weekend, John Grant in Vicar St seemed like it could be the perfect start especially given the reviews his current album ‘Pale Green Ghosts’ has received. Liza Flume opens the night’s entertainment. Over the past while, Flume has received much praise and it’s easy to see why. [...]

It’s two years and two weeks since Little Comets last played Academy 2 and what a difference that has made. Last time, a very small crowd turned up to see the band play a fantastic show. This time, the venue is sold out. Lights Camera Sundown are a four piece folk outfit who have been given the task of opening [...]

Imagine Dragons recently went Top Ten in the Irish Charts and Number 2 in the UK charts with their debut album, ‘Night Visions’. Vanessa Monaghan caught up with Sin City’s finest when they were in Ireland. Many of us get our ideas and thoughts of Las Vegas from television and film; a city built in the middle of the desert, [...]

Swim Deep at Academy 2 on Friday March 1st 2013 With a handful of singles and an album due in May, Birmingham’s Swim Deep made their way to Academy 2 for their debut Irish performance. The indie dream pop quartet have been steadily building a following in their native land, and that seems to have spilled over to Ireland as [...]

Over the course of the past two years, London band Bastille have released a number singles and two mixtapes, in a calculated lead up to the release of their debut album, ‘Bad Blood‘. Originally a solo project of front man by Dan Smith, the band play what can only be described as ‘pure 21st century pop’. Where many artists who [...]

The CMA Songwriter Series is an interesting concept, some of Country music’s biggest hit-makers share a stage, playing songs acoustically that they’ve written and telling stories about how these songs came to fruition. Sitting on a row of stools across the Whelan’s stage, the evening was introduced by Bob DiPiero, a seasoned songwriter who has written “twenty number 1′s“. His [...]