All music is inherently syncretic, traditional and contemporary alike, and it’s impossible (not to mention undesirable) to maintain complete musical purity. If this wasn’t the case, there would be no ...

With a combined age somewhere in the region of 130, French couple Pepe and Irene deliver a powerful industrial sound that a band less than half their age would struggle to match. Words: David McKenna.

On The Air’s pilot was written by Lynch and Twin Peaks’ other creator Mark Frost, with the intention that Lynch direct.It was commissioned by ABC, the station airing Twin Peaks, and shot in March 1991 ...

With the end of June comes the slew of 2025-so-far charts and its accompanying discourse, the first proper attempt to ...

A long-term fixture on Beirut’s underground experimental music scene, the latest from Sary Moussa is caught between the ...

On a mid-November night last year, fans gathered for a rare show by search-engine impaired French underground trio France, a ...

But Remember What You Have Had is centred, unsurprisingly, around O’Malley’s signature downtuned guitar chords. They sound ...

Mark Andrews looks into the four decade back catalogue of the mutant blues master and finds ten points of entry ...

The recently minted Black Hole imprint from Rocket Recordings is a space for those willing to take the darker, less travelled path. For their fourth instalment, they’ve invited Cork’s Phil Langero to ...

Berlin festival Gaswerk Music Days, now in its third years, has unveiled the full programme for their 2025 event, which takes place over the weekends of 12 and 19 July. The festival is curated by the ...