Wexford-based songwriter and composer Conor Miley shared his debut video and single ‘Father’s Day’ on Wednesday, 25th January, 2023, examining the struggles faced by single parents in Ireland.

Following the breakup of his original project We Raise Bears, Miley discovered that he was to become a father a month after a relationship ended. Mired in a personal crisis, he threw himself into writing and recording music, including ‘Father’s Day.’

ARBORIST, aka Belfast native Mark McCambridge, announces details of his third album An Endless Sequence of Dead Zeros released 21 April 2023. Produced by Matthew E White at his Spacebomb Studios in Richmond, Virginia and bearing all the hallmarks of his sound and that of the Spacebomb Houseband, it sees ARBORIST merge a driven experimentation with a classicist approach to song structure and melody, with esoteric lyrical themes born out of the fugue of the last few years and evoking a dream-state. File under John Cale, with his skill of framing a beautiful melody in a song which pushes the limits of what a song can be. Other touchstones for the album include Bill Fay, Howe Gelb, Lee Hazelwood, Dylan’s Nashville Skyline, Wilco’s A Ghost Is Born and The Go-Betweens.

Dollface is the music project of Dublin-born songwriter, Aimée Rose. A graduate of BIMM Dublin, Aimée has been singing and writing songs since she was a young teenager.

Claire Heffernan is an Irish solo artist from Limerick, with diverse musical influences, embracing soulful contemporary piano-vocals and Celtic harp accompaniments.

She can equally be found songwriting, producing, recording, and performing. By her 20s she was studying music to Masters level, graduating first in her class, and it was around this time that she quickly became one of Ireland’s most sought-after soloists. She could be found entertaining thousands of visitors to Ireland each year with her harp and voice at the world-famous Bunratty Castle banquets and all along the Wild Atlantic Way, while also performing nationwide as ‘Ireland’s Best Wedding Musician’, a title held for 3 years consecutively. Her diverse musical pursuits and ensemble performances have also afforded her opportunities to perform in Germany, Amsterdam, Vienna, and Estonia, as well as on RTÉ lyric fm, RTÉ’s Today Show, and for National Geographic.

Belfast's Drew Makes Noise started as guitarist with indie/dance crossover act Ed Zealous who released their NI Music Prize nominated debut album “Wired” via Fierce Panda subsidiary Club Fandango in 2014.

Since disbandment, he’s been creating a vision in his home studio. Immersed in a world of synths, canned orchestras, guitar effects and late night psychedelic country walks, Drew’s been dreaming up a Psych-Pop-Prog-Rock world all of his own.

Cathal Francis is an indie folk singer-songwriter from the townland of Culmore on the Derry-Donegal border. With a vulnerable and intimate style of writing and playing, he has been likened to songwriters such as Elliott Smith, Paul Simon and Nick Drake.

In 2017 Hannah McPhillimy, aka ferna, originally from Coleraine in Northern Ireland, moved to the US for two years to complete a Masters in Music Composition at the University of Michigan. This relocation inspired the sounds and sentiment for “New City”, the third release from her debut album, Understudy (out Spring 2023).

Exuberant synths, homemade drum kits (literally, made from a suitcase) and dispassionate vocals, this track visits both the euphoria of beginning again and the pain of having a reason to leave in the first place.

“Trying to hold onto a sense of who you are, while also shedding an old skin. It’s the tension between those things.” - ferna

Alternative R&B Pop artist Helen Murray has received critical acclaim for her previous releases, Thank You, Move Me, and Royalty by the likes of Today FM, Spin 1038, Nialler9, GoldenPlec, RTE Pulse and many more. Her upcoming release Wrong Time is an energising and uplifting R&B Pop anthem telling

Helen’s struggles with procrastination. Ironically, Helen Murray wrote Wrong Time about her difficulty with everyday distractions when it comes to writing and creating music

Cork-based Psyche Pop/Rock Duo Kevin Ring and James Moone (Ebben Phlö) release their third Single, ‘All Nighter.’ A Lazy dream Rock/Pop ballad filled with interesting instrumental licks and earnest vocals. This song takes inspiration from Dream pop as well as Hip Hop.

FĒNIX is the solo project of Carlow multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Darragh O’Connor. Describing his sound as “big beats and sexy synths”, FĒNIX leans heavily on Synthwave and 80s vibes to create melody-driven alt-pop.

Out of Light is the new single from Wicklow dream-pop artist Spacing. Spacing is a project that came together after a year of writing and recording songs with a drum machine at home. The song was recorded with a full band in the Hive Studios, Kilcoole, where it was mixed and mastered by Eoin Whitfield of Ehco and formerly of Enemies. The drum machine remained in the recording with the goal of maintaining the lo-fi sound of its early demos. Lyrically, the song is about the desire to be left in the dark and the benefits of not knowing why things haven’t gone as planned. The accompanying video was filmed and edited by Ben Farrelly of Ragaire, it was shot in various locations in Kilcoole, near where the song was written and recorded.

Fiona Fox is a singer-songwriter from Castlebar, Co. Mayo. After completing a degree in Music at UCC in 2012, Fox spent several years abroad in the UK, USA and Australia before returning back home to Mayo and to music. Inspired by her favourite authors, Henry Miller and Charles Bukowski, Fox writes songs highlighting the vulnerability, humour, and heartbreak of the human condition. In July 2022, Fox self-released her first EP, which features three original songs, and a haunting cover of The Killers ‘Read My Mind’. Recorded at home, the EP has been a collaborative effort with virtual contributions from friends and family in Ohio and Michigan. Fox has many more songs written and is currently working on recording new material to release a second EP.