As an anti-immigrant encampment dwindles on Basin View, its organisers try to rally
One man who’s been involved has been trying to organise a social event on a nearby council football pitch, something the council says it’s “monitoring”.
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Dean: Soda Blonde embrace the melancholy
And Danny Groenland puts “his activist spirit front and centre”.
Dean: deathtoricky emerges from the underground
Embracing “Grimy aesthetics, edgy soundscapes, songs that are short for a scrolling economy, a general sense of living on the internet”.
Dean: After a term of upheaval, punk troop M(h)aol are still hardcore
They may be a band with a membership that’s shrinking, and with a profile that’s rising, but they’re still M(h)aol.
Dean: On Meljoann’s Kandy-Kolored, Tangerine-Flake Techno Dystopia
“Pitched as ‘avante hyperpop’, her music can sound like what Mariah Carey might cook up if she spent more hours hanging out in video arcades and reading radical literature.”
Dean: KhakiKid and Travy are among the Irish rap elite
They’re “a pair of gifted boy wonders on very different ends of the stylistic spectrum from each other”.
Dean: Jehnova is getting even better
He “should be international by now. But the world doesn’t always appreciate the gifted”.
Dean: Brigid Mae Power’s covers album is a classic of the form
The Galway native’s connection to the music on Songs for You “feels personal”.
Dean: Rapper Kendino leads a triumphant night of Asian-Irish ingenuity
The three artists on the ticket “are forward-thinking superfly radicals that indulge in what you might call a romantic urban sound”.
Dean: F3miii’s electro-R&B glitter-bomb is smooth and delectable
“Take his small body of work together and there’s no doubt about it, this is the kind of new groove to woo us to smithereens.”
Dean: Maria Kelly and Crispy Jason soothe the soul
With her debut album “the sum of the in-between”, and his four-song EP “Shadowcon One”.
Dean: On their new album, “Romance”, Fontaines D.C. bask in nostalgia
All of a sudden, in the promotional pictures, they resemble a 1990s American skate punk band – and the songs invoke that decade.
Dean: Lankum are the best ticket in town
At a recent show in Kilmainham, “Lankum’s droning, gothic take on Irish folk music seemed to emanate both a mist and a mysticism.”