Nialler9 — Community compilation accompanied by brand-new video from Dubliners Postcard Versions The post A Litany of Failures Vol. II: Irish indie, post-punk and DIY bands compilation announced appeared first on Nialler9. more info

BBC News - UK — The comedian tells his audience in Ireland: "I could have done with you, 9,000 Dubliners." more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — In summer 1991, a small movie about a group of young Dubliners who form a band to play American soul music opened with little fanfare. “The Commitments,” directed by Alan Parker and based on the novel by Roddy Doyle, braved the likes of �... more info

Guardian Music — Victoria Park, LondonA lineup including Skepta, Deerhunter, James Blake and PJ Harvey prove more than able to banish wet weather blues with warm and powerful performances“Maybe you can just dance the rain away,” says one member of cheerfu... more info

Guardian Music — Learning disabilities give me a different way of seeing the world, and the music industry is getting better for artists like me. But there’s progress to be madeI’ve always loved music and singing. Brought up in an Irish-Nigerian househo... more info

Nialler9 — Gift. Roisin Murphy is following up last year’s sophisticated album Hairless Toys with Take Her Up To Monto, a new album named after a Dublin district on July 8th on PIAS, which Murphy took from The Dubliners that her dad used to sing. The al... more info

Nialler9 — This Friday, Anderson will release his debut album Patterns of lush folk and singer-songwriter music, which was self-recorded and arranged in a studio he built himself in the back of his garden. Artists these days often resort to crowdfunding their a... more info

Nialler9 — The Nightlife are a Dublin-band who impressed me with their earworm of a debut track back in March. Since then, they’ve changed their name to a more searchable and zeitgeisty TNLYF and have just announced a debut EP i to be released on September 18... more info

Nialler9 — A Lazarus Soul have been perennial Dublin underdogs, playing to, a fervent fanbase, who on more than one occasion have enthused to me that they’re the best band in Ireland. Perhaps because they are outliers who operate on their own, the continue t... more info

Time — One hundred years since its publication, here’s how James Joyce still kicks readers in the heart more info