Name: The Sea, Close By
Genre: Alt-Rock
For Fans Of: Ben Kweller, The Boxer Rebellion, Charlie Simpson
Location: Ballymena
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The first track from Ballymena's finest alt-rock three -piece's debut album, 'The Modern Mercury' is a harmonious-acoustic song of real beauty.
Lyrically we see Greyson at his introspective best. Indeed, from the opening line there's a resonating quality...
Name: Pleasure Beach
Genre: Dream-Pop
For Fans Of: CHVRCHES, Arcade Fire, Echosmith
Location: Belfast
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Ah, Pleasure Beach. Every so often a band comes around almost fully formed; the look, the style, the sound. To paraphrase Thom Yorke, everything is quite literally in it's right place. With Belfast's newest synth-wave, come dream-pop band, we see a perfect example of that. T...
Name: Rat Boy
Genre: Grime~Punk//Hip-hop
For Fans Of: SLAVES, Mike Skinner, Jamie T
Location: Essex
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There's a sort of 'hip-hop' renaissance taking place across the UK at the minute. Whilst America has always seemed content with it's Kanye's and it's Biggie's, (big names with bigger attitudes), the British fast-talking enthusiasts of this world have always been a tad understa...
Encore NI would like to extend a massive congratulations to those cheeky otters Hot Cops, a band we have featured many times on the site, for their inclusion in this year's 'Radio 1's Big Weekend' Introducing line-up.
Making some of the most raucous, emotive indie in Britain today, Hot Cops success comes as no surprise. Both lyrically enchanting and sonically haunting in equal measure, they ar...
Name: Silences
Genre: Alt-Indie
For Fans Of: The Thrills, Sigur Ros, Ciaran Lavery
Location: Armagh
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Silences just seem to get better and better. The brain child of songwriter-come-front man Conchúr White, each release seems to to shine a little more light on his sepia-toned band.
'The Sea' is a delightfully ambient affair, very much in the Sigur Ros mold, if a little more ...
Ciaran Lavery & Ryan Vail
Genre: Sea~Folk
For Fans Of: Damien Rice, Keaten Henson, Tired Pony
Location: Belfast
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A collision of worlds. The gentle, rousing voice of Ciaran Lavery, intertwined with the visceral soundscapes of electronic artist Ryan Vail. An intriguing collaboration, not by any m...
Modern Life Is Rubbish wrote it's name into Northern Irish folklore on Friday night, or rather, Serotonin did. Left out of the venue due to difficulties, and facing a room full of their disappointed fans, the band displayed the sort of steely grit and determination you'd like to think Terri Hooley would approve of.
Setting up a make shift stage on the terrace of The Granary cafe next door, ...
And So I Watch You From Afar have became one of Northern Ireland's greatest exports. A tidal wave of melodic guitars, over the years we've seen them hover over the borders of math-rock, to Explosions In The Sky level post rock and everywhere in between. We've seen them loose members, re-group and tear apart venues all over the planet. Now back with fourth album 'Heirs', this latest effort, 'Re...
Loris' electronic-pop star is in the ascendancy. Buoyed by the phenomenal success of debut Ep 'Yeah', the trio have just been announced for 'The Great Escape' Festival in Brighton, gained significant airplay from BBC Radio 1 and are selling out shows regularly throughout Belfast.
Their latest release, (an acoustic version of their Ep's title track), shimmers with trademark Loris verve, led by ...
As we sit upon the brink of another find Summer of local music, we felt it would be an ideal time to round up all the amazing things happening across the country right now. So here, in as convenient a list as we could possibly muster, are five things to check out this week...
1. Hot Cops & Leo Drezden play live session for Smalltown America
Belfast's Hot Cops rapid ascent into the hea...
Name: Robocobra Quartet
Genre: Baroque-Punk
For Fans Of: Allen Ginsberg, Anne Sexton
Location: Belfast
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Oh what I wouldn't give to be one of them.
To be tied to bohemia's wrist like a lover. To carry books of gravitas down rain splashed side streets. Staring through every cloud, as my racing mind pours over man (un)kinds greatest musings.To find coffee shops surrounded by boo...
Two cities. two venues, twelve acts. The Oh Yeah Centre's Volume Control team have done it again, teaming up with the Nerve Centre's Set The Stage project to put on two nights of amazing local music from two of Northern Ireland's most vibrant music cities.
On Friday 10th April, members of the Nerve Centre's Set The Stage team will be heading to Belfast to showcase some of Londonderry's fi...
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