Nialler9 — After its launch last year, Musictown has now revealed the lineup for the 2015 edition of the city festival that celebrates Dublin as a muse with performances in unusual locations and landmark buildings this April. Participants include Glen Hansard,... more info

Nialler9 — Indiependence revealed their debut lineup for the August Bank Holiday weekend 1st to 3rd in Deer Farm, Mitchelstown, Cork this year. It includes: Public Enemy, White Lies, Tom Odell, Chloe Howl, Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip Lisa O’Neill, Walking O... more info

Nialler9 — The Irish album of the year of 2012 will be decided at the Meteor Choice Music Prize live event on March 7th. It’s back in its home of Vicar Street once more and I have pair of tickets to giveaway which will see 9 of the 10 nominees play live inclu... more info

Nialler9 — Cardboard Gangsters is a film in the works about drug dealers in Darndale, Dublin. Damien Dempsey and Lethal Dialect will be involved as actors (and LD on soundtrack duties). Director John Connors, himself from Darndale, Stalker Films wants to highli... more info

Guardian Music — Purcell Room, LondonFor a brief moment it seemed that this adventurous marriage of technology and tradition was doomed from the start. Surrounded by five musicians playing fiddle, dulcimer, pipes and piano, Gerry Diver turned to the computer at the b... more info

Guardian Music — The innate musicality of speech has inspired Gerry Diver's Speech Project. Colin Irwin talks to him, and looks at the chequered history of words and popular music"Speech … speech is dripping with musicality. There's a real magic to it," says Gerry ... more info

Guardian Music — (One Fine Day)The idea is certainly original: take a series of interviews with well-known Irish musicians, and then mix short excerpts of speech with instrumental work that follows the rhythms of a spoken phrase. The interviewees include Christy Moor... more info

Pop Matters — Singer-songwriter delivers eleven Irish standards. more info