Van Morrison plays Belfast’s Odyssey tonight and Dublin’s O2 tomorrow in his first Dublin concert in a decade. Our daily download today is the rock song Gloria, written by Van Morrison and originally recorded by Them in 1964 as the B-side of "Baby, Please Don't Go".

  

Our daily download today is a new single The Darkness. It’s called 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Us' and it’s available as a free download on their website www.theactualdarkness.com. Check out the cool animated video to the song above.

 

Ryan Sheridan’s 2011 single The Dreamer is being used in the new Heineken ad. The track is from his debut album ‘The Day You Live Forever’, which was recorded in Dublin with producer Joe Chester (The Coronas, Mundy) and mixed in the UK by Ruardhri Cushnan (Mumford & Sons, ...

 

Our daily download today comes from American pop rock band Train. It’s their new single ‘Drive By’ and is from their sixth studio album.

 

Our daily download today comes from recently reunited band, Happy Mondays. It’s their 1990 hit single “Step On”. The band's original lineup Shaun Ryder, his brother Paul, Bez, Gary Whelan and Paul Davis all met last week to commit to an 11-date UK tour in May. Although the Salford ...

2 time Grammy winner Janis Ian was in studio this week to chat with Tony and performed her hit track "At Seventeen"

Janis is playing Vicar street on Sunday the 29th & you can get your tickets at www.ticketmaster.ie

We have 3 signed copies of "The Best of Janis Ian" ...

Our daily download today is an album track from Richard Hawley. It's called Something Is and is from Richard Hawley's second studio album, Late Night Final, which was released in 2001.

Next month The Cranberries are releasing their first album together in a decade. It’s called ‘Roses’ and our download today is the album's first single ‘Tomorrow’.

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Our daily download today is from 19 year old singer/songwriter Delilah. The track is called "Love You So" and is from Delilah’s second EP. Her debut album ‘From the Roots Up’ is due for release in March.

 

Our download today is from this year’s winner of BBC Sound of 2012. He’s called MICHAEL KIWANUKA and his new single is “Home Again”.  

 

Michael plays The Sugar Club, Dublin on February 11th and Cyprus Avenue in Cork on February 12th.

 

Our daily download today is the soulful debut single from Rebecca Ferguson. The song is called Nothing's Real But Love and it was written by Rebecca and Eg White, the man behind tracks including Adele's Chasing Pavements and Will Young's Leave Right Now.

The Meteor Choice Music Prize shortlist for Irish Album of the Year 2011 has just been announced - thanks to Paul McLoone for popping into studio and doing the honours.

 

 

The shortlist is as follows (artists listed in alphabetical order):

• And So I Watch You From Afar – ...

 

Our daily download today comes from New Zealand one-man band Avalanche City. It’s called ‘Love Love Love’ and is the first single from the debut album ‘Our New Life Above The Ground’.

Our daily download today comes from a young couple from Athlone. It’s called "The Guardian (I Believe in You)" and was written and composed by Conor Irwin, and performed by both Conor on guitars and his girlfriend Ruby McEnteggart. Conor is a member of Macey South and Ruby is a ...

Emeli Sande was in studio today and performed Heaven on the show, as well her next single Next To Me. She plays the Sugar Club tonight.

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Emmy the Great & Tim Wheeler (from Ash) were our guests in studio today and performed a new track called 'Christmas Day (I Wish I Was Surfing)'. They play a very festive acoustic show at Tower Records on Wicklow Street tomorrow, December 9th, to celebrate the release of their new album - "This is Christmas". It is the only ...

 

When it comes to Christmas, we all want to make children happy - because it's the smiles on their faces and their genuine joy that makes this time of year extra special.

That's why Tony is running his 12 Days of Christmas Appeal for the Temple Street Children's Hospital, as part of the ...

Our download today is Lady Gaga's cover of Irving Berlin's Christmas song, White Christmas. It’s included on Gaga's new EP, A Very Gaga Holiday, which was released digitally last weekend.

 

 

Our daily download today comes from New York-based band The Pierces, consisting of sisters Allison and Catherine Pierce. The sisters played Glastonbury this year and also supported Coldplay at the iTunes Festival in July. Our download today is their single ‘It Will Not Be Forgotten’ which is from ...