• The Thin Air Club: Jetplane Landing – Don’t Try Listening Party

    To mark the start of the Thin Air Club downstairs in Belfast’s Voodoo bar every Sunday night, we’re holding a special listening party of Don’t Try, the incredible new album by Derry band Jetplane Landing on Sunday, October 20. Aside from playing the album from start to finish, we will also be spinning tracks from bands that have influenced Jetplane, some of their earlier material and many other great tunes on the night. The first FIVE people through the door get a free copy of Don’t Try and there will be mindblowingly good drink promotions all night. Awesome. Go here for the…

  • Under Cover: redmanAKA (Pete Reddy)

    Hi there! Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got started? Hello, I am redmanAKA. I didn’t get into art college but I did get into a FÁS screen-printing course. When I was sent out for work experience I pretended I was a graphic student and got a job in a sign-writing/screen-printing company, in their art department, working mostly on artwork set-up, with a few design tasks. It was fun for a while. Then my brother (who had started a small graphic design business on his own) asked me to help him out and I agreed…

  • EP Stream: The Mighty Stef – Iveagh Flats

    With hints of everyone from Queens of the Stone Age, Echo and the Bunnymen and Mark Lanegan, Dublin band The Mighty Stef are streaming their extremely impressive new EP, Iveagh Flats. Serving as a sampler of their forthcoming new album – produced in Los Angeles by none other than Alain Johannes of Queens of the Stone Age and Them Crooked Vultures repute – the three-track release really underlines the band’s forward momentum at the moment. Stream the three-track EP via Soundcloud below.

  • Interview: Gambles

    It’s interesting to listen to Matthew Siskin (aka Gambles) speak about his debut album, Trust. Borne out of a set of circumstances that are nothing short of tragic, it is a record that is raw and poignant. Roughly three years ago, Siskin got engaged, then lost a child, left his wife, and turned to drink and drugs for two years.  Much of Trust is addressed to his ex-wife of whom Siskin has previously said, “I wanted her to hate me. I did things to make her hate me. Because that would be easier than saying,  ‘I have to leave'”. Trust…