Groom’s Golden Age

One of the best things about moving to a new city is finding new music – discovering bands that may not be well known (yet) in your previous home town, or bands that simply haven’t fallen onto your radar. When I moved to Dublin two years ago, Groom were one of the bands I was…

Open ears: New Music Roundup

Melodica Deathship Irish hip hop is a pretty small market, and I often feel that those who become  hip-hop musicians/rappers are particularly brave souls.  When you think of hip hop, you don’t often picture an Irish guy or girl at the mic, but thankfully there are people brave and talented enough to break into this…