• Mary Wallopers Announce Tour With New Single ‘Frost Is All Over’

    August 23, 2022 - By 

    Modern Dundalk trad icons The Mary Wallopers are set to return to the road following a hugely successful, outright decimation of UK and Irish stages and crowds last time around. To accompany this news, they’ve released a video for brand new single, ‘Frost Is All Over’, their update of the Irish folk song, taken from their forthcoming album – out in autumn. The band themselves say “Frost is All Over is a traditional Irish song about taking everything in your stride and not caring about what everyone says you should care about. We added the verse about landlords as we feel they are a sensitive sort who need reminding of how…

  • All Together Now 2022

    August 4, 2022 - By 

    Returning after its forced hiatus, Waterford’s All Together Now festival was back with a bang this weekend, bringing with it one of the most diverse and interesting lineups of any festival this summer. Armed with just his notes app and press pass  -and accompanied by the inimitable Celeste Burdon and her camera – Mike Ryan gives us a glimpse into the odyssey that engulfed Curraghmore Estate for the August bank holiday weekend. Photos by Celeste Burdon I arrive at All Together Now overburdened with probably unnecessary camping equipment, but just in time to catch the back half of The Altered…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 29th July

    July 29, 2022 - By 

    Dig into the very best Irish releases of the week, featuring Maija Sofia, FONDA, The Barbiturates, Kynsy and more Maija Sofia – O Theremin FONDA – Letting Go THUMPER – 25 Lōwli – Otherworld Various Artists – Bangers ‘N’ Pride! Bangers ‘N’ Pride! by Bangers & Mash Ups Kynsy – Love of Your Life The Barbiturates – Selection Box #2 Selection Box #2 by The Barbiturates April – 54321 CARRON – Lights Up

  • Monday Mixtape: The Bobby Lees

    June 27, 2022 - By 

    Ahead of their midnight performance at Whelans on Friday July 1st, Macky from N.Y based rock band The Bobby Lees selects the songs that left an indelible imprint on their lives.  “The older I get I find myself becoming more and more insecure about my seeming inability to make a good playlist. Whether that be from my being paralyzed by choice or, inversely, completely lacking in options I’m not totally sure. In the end the result is generally the same. The cynical takeaway from that opening statement would be that I’m preemptively and covertly apologizing for a potentially anathematic listening…

  • Win Tickets to Fight Like Apes

    June 16, 2022 - By 

    Ahead of going on sale tomorrow, we have a pair of tickets to give away to the positively unmissable return of Fight Like Apes, live at 3Oympia Theatre, Dublin on Friday, March 24th 2023. To be in with a chance of snapping them up, simply send your answer to the following question to info@thethinair.net What is the closing song on Fight Like Apes’ debut album Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion? Good luck!

  • Track Record: Arthur Itis

    June 16, 2022 - By 

    Cork shapeshifter par excellence Arthur Pawsey, aka Arthur Itis, gives a guided tour to the weird and wonderful wax that have shaped his musical life Photo by Celeste Burdon Dr. Roger Payne – Songs Of The Humpback Whale This is a mega-special sound research album that makes for unreal ambient. Dr. Payne is mad for how animals echolocate, particularly owls and bats. He discovered that certain moths know that bats are screaming at them and can evade being munched. He was the first to record Humpback whale songs. Also you will recognise one of our whale friends from Kate Bush’s…

  • Win Tickets to Invaderband in Belfast

    June 15, 2022 - By 

    Blessedly, we have a pair of tickets to give away to see easily one of the island’s finest art-rock propositions, Invaderband, at McHughs in Belfast this Friday, June 17th. Helmed by Adam Leonard, and featuring the likes of TTA favourite Chris McConaghy aka Our Krypton Son, the Derry quartet are rising a fresh wave off the back of their 6Music (and elsewhere)-approved new single ‘Cheese Slices’. Check it below and keep an eye peeled for a video premiere soon. To be in with a chance of catching the band – with support from Selador and Matt McCrum – at McHughs,…

  • Kendrick Lamar Announces Dublin Show

    May 14, 2022 - By 

    Kendrick Lamar is set to make his Dublin return. Off the back of his new, critically-acclaimed fifth album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, the trailblazing rapper will play 3Arena on Sunday, November 13. Support on the night comes from Baby Keem and Tanna Leone. Tickets for the show – which marks Lamar’s first show in the city since 2018 – are priced from €70 and go on sale at 12pm on Friday, May 20th here.

  • Monday Mixtape: Aoife Wolf

    May 2, 2022 - By 

    Ahead of the release of her single ‘The Woman Who Shot Andy Warhol’ on Wednesday, fast-rising psych-folk artist Aoife Wolf gives us a guided tour of some of her all-time favourite songs. Photo by Aaron Cunningham Pixies – Monkeys Gone to Heaven I don’t know when the first time I heard this song was, probably in some nineties coming of age film but I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’d ever heard. When I started making music it was always my goal to sound like Pixies. I’m acutely aware of the fact that Aoife Wolf is…