Aron: As a musician, I’m always interested in hearing how other musicians’ musical journey began. Can you tell me about the moment when you decided to get into songwriting and who gave you the inspiration to start your artistic project?…
Nabil Gonzalez is a half Spanish, half Jordanian Singer-songwriter and Multi-instrumentalist. He is one of the artists who are going to perform his original songs on the 21st of April at The Cobblestone, organised by Babylon Radio. Prior to the…
For most of our lifetimes, Halloween in Ireland has solely been celebrated in the American fashion, meaning trick or treating in the local area, dressing up as monster of movie characters, and carving “Jack-O-Lanterns” (makes me cringe just writing that). …
Four days ago, a crowd gathered in Smithfield Square. Armed with protest signs and the power of good music, thousands of Dubliners came together in a breathtaking display of resilience to save The Cobblestone, a historic pub in the city.…
The state of Irish festivals under lockdown One of the most frustrating things about the Coronavirus pandemic has been the constant cancellation of events and festivals around the country. Stay at home and social distancing measures meant that anything involving…
It’s been a tough couple of years for everyone, jobs have been lost, pubs and restaurants have been closed, and everyone has generally just been bored as shit. One of the greatest frustrations of this pandemic has been the hit…
TikTok makes it simple for anybody to create and share viral videos. The biggest major disruption to the music industry in years looks to be TikTok, causing many existing music firms to sit up and take notice in order to…
Is the popularity of a song more important than the quality of the music? Music and business have coexisted for centuries, of course, but the combination of modern social media and today’s music industry (with its profit-oriented business model) has…
Ben Meyers is a London-based American singer-songwriter and an alumnus of the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP), whose musical style is quite eclectic, but folk and Americana are the primal genres that dominate it. “Thunder” is Meyers’ latest release,…
French music is not the most famous, but everyone has at least heard Edith Piaf’s songs before. If you think you haven’t, but you have seen one of the movies mentioned in this article, then you’ve heard one of her…
