Danny O’Reilly of the Coronas at a show in Wexford, Ireland in October 2019. Danny O’Reilly of The Coronas has been fascinated and inspired about how the Black Lives Matter movement has spread from the U.S. and throughout the world, including the tiny village of Dingle, Ireland, where he’s…

Following 2012’s Rhythm and Repose, 2015’s Grammy-nominated Didn’t He Ramble and 2018’s Between Two Shores, Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard delves into his mind and emotion on This Wild Willing. Accompanied by expressive classical guitars and orchestral arrangements, Hansard tells vivid stories of love, determination and understanding. This Wild Willing Glen Hansard ANTI-, April 12…

Dermot Kennedy at Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2018. Photos: Joaquin Cabello. Ireland has a long history of participatory musical expression. Do you play an instrument? Bring it to the pub and you could end up playing that night with the band. For the…

  It’s easy to pigeon-hole Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard as strictly a folk singer, especially if you’re only familiar with his first two solo albums. But prior to that, he led a rock band (The Frames), had The Swell Season partnership with Marketa Irglova and was an actor along…

Every week, there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms such as Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles, but who has time to sort through all that? RIFF does! We pooled our resources to find some of the best…