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Amplify X TiLT!

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:34:05 GMT

Interview with Sheena Madden, Director of Amplify Agency, on TiLT with John Barker on Dublin City FM

Thank you so much to John Barker for having Amplify's Director and Founder Sheena Madden on his Dublin City FM show, TiLT, in April.

John was one of the first people in 'the industry' to sit down with Sheena and give her some sage advice in the early days of Amplify, so it was a lovely, full circle moment to be invited on to his show to talk about how far the company has come since 2019 and do a deep dive on some of our wonderful clients!

Aired 7th April 2025.

DERVISH KICK OFF 2025 WITH NEW SINGLE ‘PASSAGE WEST (FEAT. INDIGO GIRLS)’

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:58:44 GMT

Taken from their forthcoming album

National Concert Hall date - 30th January 2025

Legendary Irish folk band Dervish, are set to start 2025 on a high note with the release of a new single, ‘Passage West (feat. Indigo Girls)’ on Friday, 10th January 2025 via Rounder Records.

Indigo Girls, hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, are an acclaimed folk-rock duo celebrated for their unique fusion of Appalachian, pop, and rock elements. The Grammy award winning duo of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers are noted for their activism around Native American land rights, environmental issues, gun safety, death penalty abolishment, and gay, trans, and lesbian rights.

Amy Ray of Indigo Girls says: "I feel so fortunate to have been welcomed into the Dervish fold. Honored and psyched to be part of the project. John Reynolds has always brought us amazing opportunities to broaden our musical horizons and this is one of those precious moments! Thanks to Dervish for inviting us over the pond, we love Ireland and Scotland."

Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls says: “We have been so excited about being part of the Dervish project - many thanks to John Reynolds for the invitation and to the members of Dervish for welcoming us into this gorgeous musical world."

Shane Mitchell of Dervish says: "It's been such a great privilege for Dervish to record 'Passage West' with Indigo Girls, artists we've greatly admired for a very long time. We're really enjoying collaborating with so many iconic artists for our new album, which will be out later this year

Working with artists from such a wide array of genres has been such an inspiring process for us creatively, and most importantly, we're honored to present the works of some of Ireland's best contemporary songwriters."
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‘Passage West’ was written by the renowned Irish singer-songwriter John Spillane and is the first release from a brand new Dervish album, set for release later in 2025.

The album is produced by John Reynolds (Sinéad O'Connor, Damien Dempsey, Andrea Corr) and is a follow up to Dervish’s highly successful 2019 collaborations album, The Great Irish Songbook , which featured musical heavyweights such as Imelda May, Andrea Corr, Steve Earle, Rhiannon Giddens, David Gray and more. That album earned Dervish a Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Folk Awards.

The new album will feature contemporary Irish folk songs that have been written in recent years by top Irish songwriters, and will be released by Down the Road Records - part of the Exceleration Music Group.

It’s set to be a busy year for Dervish with a number of important projects in the pipeline for the iconic Sligo-based band.

Indigo Girls fly into Ireland for a very special show with Dervish at The National Concert Hall on Thursday, 30th January 2025.

Moya Brennan from Clannad, who will also feature on the forthcoming new Dervish album, will be another special guest for this exciting show, presented by Singular Artists. Tickets from €35 incl. booking fee are on sale now from SingularArtists.ie .

THE LUMINEERS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM AUTOMATIC

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 08:53:45 GMT

The critically acclaimed and global touring powerhouse return with their raw and personal fifth studio album on 14th February 2025 via Dualtone

The Lumineers are proud to announce their highly anticipated new album, Automatic, available via Dualtone worldwide on Friday, 14 February 2025. Pre-order now.

The 2x GRAMMY® Award-nominated and chart-topping band’s fifth studio album and first new collection in more than three years, Automatic is heralded by the exhilarating first single, ‘Same Old Song’, available everywhere now. True to form, the track, like the rest of the album, was written by co-founders Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites. Being one of the few top groups who writes all their own material is, says Schultz, “a unique badge of honor.”

“This album marks 20 years of songwriting between Jeremiah and me,” says Wesley Schultz. “The album explores some of the absurdities of the modern world, like the increasingly blurry line between what’s real and what’s not, and the variety of ways we numb ourselves while trying to combat both boredom and overstimulation.”

A speedy chronicle of misadventures showcasing The Lumineers’ undeniable flair for a soaring rave-up, ‘Same Old Song’ is joined by an official music video featuring Schultz and Fraites performing in front of a living canvas where scenes play out like VHS home movies, creating a morphing collage of moments that feel both immediate and remote. The projections provide a surreal, mysterious window into the mind and memories of The Lumineers, visually manifesting the song’s emotionally resonant lyrics. Directed by filmmaker Anaïs LaRocca (Hundred Waters), ‘Same Old Song’ premieres today. Listen here.

After twenty years of musical partnership, Automatic finds Jeremiah Fraites and Wesley Schultz traveling new sonic and thematic terrain with their most raw and personal collection thus far. Both men, now dads, fully embraced the life-altering, unromantic challenges and rewards of family life. When they reconvened to write, the emerging songs featured a new, aching vulnerability, sly humor, and bold acknowledgements of need – for love, respect, and connection in an increasingly chaotic world.

“People who think they have our number,” says Jeremiah Fraites, “they’ll be surprised.”

Inspired by Peter Jackson’s 2021 Beatles documentary Get Back, the band, with the help of co-producers David Baron and Simone Felice, set up shop in the expansive tracking room at Woodstock's Utopia Studio. Multiple set-ups – with two sets of drums, three different pianos, and an array of amps, guitars, vocal mics – were laid out, allowing the musicians to pivot and capture as much as possible with minimal delay. The process further freed The Lumineers to perform the songs as a unit, allowing the band to capture the raw, organic presentation of the anthemic new tracks. For the first time on a Lumineers album, the band is credited as co-producers alongside Felice and Baron, who also engineered and mixed, as he did on the band’s last two albums.

Recorded in less than a month, the album, as Schultz says, feels “very much of this era.” While songs like the self-effacing ‘Asshole’ and the spartan, wry ‘Better Day’ reveal a risky intimacy and heretofore untapped undercurrent of humor, Automatic remains what fans around the world have come to love about The Lumineers – shadowy themes wrapped in upbeat, infectious melodies, sky-high choruses destined to be sung by tens of thousands each night on the road, and what Fraites calls “a palpable sense of connection between Wes and me. There’s lots of love on this record.”

The Lumineers will introduce audiences to Automatic with an epic 2025 live schedule that includes top-billed festival appearances and an EU/UK headline tour getting underway April 23 in Vienna, Austria and then visiting arenas in the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, and Ireland through May. North American dates will be announced soon. For complete details and ticket information, please visit www.thelumineers.com/tour .

THE LUMINEERS

2025 TOUR DATES

JANUARY

11 – Inglewood, CA – iHeartRadio ALTer EGO †

FEBRUARY

28 – Tempe, AZ – Extra Innings Festival †

APRIL

(with Michael Marcagi)

23 – Vienna, Austria – Stadthalle

24 – Prague, Czech Republic – O2 Arena

26 – Munich, Germany – Olympiahalle

27 – Milan, Italy – Unipol Forum

30 – Bilbao, Spain – Bilbao Arena

MAY

(with Michael Marcagi)

2 – Lisbon, Portugal – MEO Arena

3 – Madrid, Spain – WiZink

6 – Luxembourg, Luxembourg – Rockhal

8 – Berlin, Germany – Velodrom

9 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Royal Arena

11 – Oslo, Norway – Oslo Spektrum

14 – Hamburg, Germany – Barclays Arena

15 – Cologne, Germany – LANXESS Arena

17 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – AFAS Live (SOLD OUT)

19 – Brussels, Belgium – Forest National

20 – Paris, France – Adidas Arena

22 – Cardiff, UK – Utilita Arena

24 – London, UK – The O2

25 – Manchester, UK – AO Arena

28 – Birmingham, UK – Utilita Arena

29 – Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro

31 – Dublin, Ireland – St Anne’s Park

† FESTIVAL APPEARANCE

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THE LUMINEERS

AUTOMATIC

(Dualtone) U.S. & Canada

Release Date: Friday, February 14, 2025

Tracklist:

Same Old Song

Asshole

Strings

Automatic

You’re All I’ve Got

Plasticine

Ativan

Keys On The Table

Better Day

Sunflowers

So Long

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