The Last Mixed Tape
Irish Indie Music News, Reviews, Interviews and Playlists
Castlepalooza 2017 draws near and within only weeks to go the stage times for this year’s festival have been confirmed. Acts already announced to play Castlepalooza 2017 next month include: Le Galaxie, Wild Beasts, Waze & Odyssey, David Kitt, Shit Robot, I Have A Tribe, Heroes In Hiding, King Bones, Thumper, Le Boom, Frankenstein Bolts, Wolff, Aik J, Oh Boland, Appella, Farah […]
Dublin eight-piece band After The Ibis have released their brand new music video for the single ‘Sober’. A vivid blending of ska, punk, and reggae the latest offering from After The Ibis is a hook filled introduction to the band fueled by big brass sections and sing-a-long choruses. The fast paced beat of ‘Sober’ coupled with the on-point musicality of […]
The Last Mixed Tape reviews Tough Love, the brand new studio album from the Jimmy Cake. An album that follows the old two-sided vinyl format, Tough Love is a musical journey split in half that uses each side to convey different aspects of the Jimmy Cake’s sound within the prism of an over arching sonic theme. Brooding, to begin with then slowly turning frantic the […]
The Last Mixed Tape’s weekly 8-Track Spotify playlist series features new international music you should be checking out right now. The eighteenth edition of TLMT’s 8-Track playlist features several must listen to new tracks including ‘Three Future’ the brand new single from Torres, Frankie Rose’s new offering ‘Red Museum’, London-based songwriter Suzi Wu with ‘Teenage Witch’, Swimming Girls and ‘2 Kids’, ‘Red Desert’ by Carmen Villain, Texas band Star Parks’ ‘The Past Is […]
In this edition of The Last Mixed Tape’s song-of-the-week feature The Mixed-Tape, we turn our attention to ‘Headlights’ the brand new single from Sub Motion. An upfront rock ‘n’ roll band, Sub Motion first really caught TLMT’s attention with their live and loud set in Whelan’s last Thursday night. Following this, the group’s latest single ‘Headlights’ captures the full-force wall of sound […]
With the U2 Joshua Tree 30th anniversary tour set to land in Croke Park this Saturday night (July 22nd), TLMT has chosen and created a Spotify playlist of it’s 20 favorite U2 tracks of all time. Having had the opportunity of catching U2’s Joshua Tree 30th Anniversary Tour live at Twickenham Stadium last weekend, it’s hard not to be […]
The Last Mixed Tape’s weekly Dublin gig guide, This Weekend features Longitude 2017, Whelan’s Summer Watch 2017, Retro Revival Indie Club and more. Friday – July 14th Longitude 2017 – Marlay Park Line-up: Read TLMT’s Guide To Longitude 2017 Stage Times: here Whelan’s OTW Summer Watch 2017 Line-up: Bullet Girl / Look To The Lady / Tadgh & more Tickets: FREE Doors: 8 pm Session Motts – Whelan’s […]
The Whelan’s Summer Watch 2017 mini festival kicked off last night and included sets from Little One and Submotion. The Last Mixed Tape was there to cover their performances. For more info on the event visit whelanslive.com. Click and scroll to see the full gallery below. All photos by Stephen White.
Indietronica act Columbia Mills have released their brand new single ‘This City Doesn’t Feel Like Home To Me’. Taken from the group’s upcoming debut album A Safe Distance To Watch, the perpetual forward motion of ‘This City Doesn’t Feel Like Home To Me’ pushes Columbia Mills weighty indietronica sound through a landscape of powerful guitar lines and emotionally charged vocals. Resulting […]
Longitude 2017 descends upon Marlay Park in Dublin this weekend (Friday, July 14th – Sunday, July 16th). With only days to go, TLMT has delved deep and come up with it’s Guide To Longitude 2017. See below for the full run down, Spotify playlist and stage times. Main Stage BARQ – Friday: 2.30pm Agro-soul stand-outs. Stormzy – Friday: 9.30pm King of Grime […]
The Longitude 2017 stage times have been announced today ahead of this weekend’s festival. Acts set to perform at Longitude 2017 in Marlay Park this weekend include The Weeknd, Mumford & Sons, Glass Animals, Baaba Maal, Jack Garratt, Lucy Rose, Skepta, Picture This, Catfish & the Bottlemen, Kaytranada, Mac Miller, Wiley, Kaleo, Dua Lipa, Milky Chance, Tom Misch, Loyle Carner, Stormzy, Villagers, […]
Alternative rock outfit Bodies have released the music video for their latest single ‘I’m Waiting’. The second single from Bodies, ‘I’m Waiting’ is a slow building wash of texture and lingering guitar lines under a foreground of layered vocals. A patient but no less effective track, ‘I’m Waiting’ wraps a strong depth of field around the brooding alternative-rock sound of […]
The Last Mixed Tape reviews This Heart, the much-anticipated debut extended play from Loah. Few records could possibly live up to the hype of This Heart. For quite some time now Loah has been one of Ireland’s most hotly tipped artists, due mostly to her collaborations with Bantum, work with Hozier and her spellbinding live shows. Indeed, it felt like going into her debut […]
Bitch Falcon guitarist and vocalist Lizzie Fitzpatrick has unveiled a remix of the group’s debut single ‘Wolfstooth’. Coming ahead of Bitch Falcon’s appearance at Longitude 2017 this Friday (July 14th), Fitzpatrick has taken the band’s usually heavy riffed post-grunge sound and reimagined it with an electro-pop twist with a remix that transforms the original completely. With Bitch Falcon only days […]
The Last Mixed Tape is proud to premiere the brand new music video for ‘Fadin’ by the indie-pop act the Temps. The jangled powerpop sound of ‘Fadin’ (think Real Estate via the La’s) coupled with the song’s laid back mood, makes for a subtle but no less precise introduction to the Temps, and a charming one at that. Serenely melodic, […]
The Last Mixed Tape’s weekly 8-Track Spotify playlist series features new international music you should be checking out right now. The sixteenth edition of TLMT’s 8-Track playlist features several must listen to new tracks including the latest single from indie pop artist Upsahl, ‘Cherry Pie’ the new track from Yassassin, Belgian band Felix Pallas and their song ‘Similarities’, R&B artist Biig Piig with ’24K’, Norwegian synth pop songwriter Anna of […]
