• 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…

  • Irish Tracks of The Week: 25th March

    March 25, 2022 - By 

    Here’s the very best Irish tracks to drop this week, featuring Ciaran Lavery, Axis Of, Niamh Regan, Buí, EFÉ, Fontaines D.C, April, The Wicc, Stomptown Brass, Laytha and more Ciaran Lavery – I Am Old Enough To Know What Love Is Axis Of – Blackcomber EFÉ – KIWI ​​ Buí – Walls Stomptown Brass – Let Me Stay The Wicc – Wolf Fontaines D.C – Skinty Fia Niamh Regan – Late Nights Zaska w/ Jess Kav – Calm Down Laytha – Wavey Gamey Fizzy Orange – Oh Carling! Zapho – Tell Your Mother April – When It Comes To You…

  • SoFFT Nights Reveal 2022 Line-Up

    March 7, 2022 - By 

    Lisa O’Neill and Tolü Makay are among the names set to play this year’s SoFFT Nights. Making its return to Dunderry Park in Co. Meath across 4-5th June, the festival will also play host to Elaine Mai (with MayKay and Sinead White), Pastiche, Moxie, Kíla, and Séan Fitzgerald with Lankum’s Daragh Lynch across the weekend. Beyond live music, there will also be activities including astronomy talks, bat walks, shamanic journeying, reggae yoga, sound baths, active imagination workshops, music for young children, and site-specific theatre. “We put on the very first festival in the midst of covid in October 2020 and over the course of…

  • Ten Past Seven & Shifting at Bello Bar

    March 4, 2022 - By 

    On Saturday, 5th March, Dublin’s Bello Bar hosts one truly righteous double-bill: Kerry instrumental trio Ten Past Seven with Dublin noise-rock levellers Shifting. After myriad months of being unable to do so, both bands will largely perform music from two of the best released on these shores in 2020: Long Live The Bogwalrus and It Was Good respectively. Limited numbers of vinyl will also be on sale on the night. Tickets are €10 on the door and available here. Newcomer? Not to worry. Check out two new live videos of both bands performing – live in Rory from TP7’s shed no less – below.…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 4th March

    March 4, 2022 - By 

    Rejoice, it’s Bandcamp Friday once again. Here’s the best Irish tracks and releases of the week, from Acid Granny, Post Punk Podge & The Technohippies, MuRli, Lighght, Natalia Beylis, Wild Rocket, Arthur Itis and more. Acid Granny – Urban Hurling Urban Hurling by Acid Granny Post Punk Podge & The Technohippies – Gentrification Nation MuRli – The Sky Has Windows The Sky Has Windows by MuRli Seodra by Lighght Natalia Beylis – Fortuna: Installation Works 2013 Fortuna: Installation Works 2013 by Natalia Beylis SSMMUUTT – Pissed Up In Поділ / Magick Bridge ft Gareth Quinn Redmond Pissed Up In Поділ…

  • Video Premiere: Wild Rocket – Formless Abyss

    March 3, 2022 - By 

    Few bands do obliterating quite as convincingly as Wild Rocket. On releases such as 2017’s Disassociation Mechanics, the Dublin space rock band wed masterful repetition with a slew of bludgeoning riffs to lethal effect. The title track from the band’s imminent new release, ‘Formless Abyss’ takes that unfuckwithable ratio and ups the ante a hundredfold. Across the perfect eternity of ten minutes, the band unshackle one almighty beast that’s equal parts trouncing and – as it crests, a bokeh shot of face-searing sludge – supremely acid-soaked. Big words, yes, but this is a big fucking song. Watch Rian Trench’s aptly tripped-out visuals for the track below. Featuring contributions by Colin Mifsud, Tommy O’Sullivan…

  • Ciaran Lavery on the Inaugural Soft Gut Song Camp

    February 24, 2022 - By 

    Across 14-16th April, Co. Down analog recording studio Analog Catalog will host the inaugural Soft Gut Song Camp. Founded by acclaimed NI artist Ciaran Lavery, alongside music industry professionals Nikki MacRae and Jo Wright, it was created to encourage and cultivate a community of creative collaboration and support within the NI music industry by delivering an immersive, multi-day song camp for regional artists. As an opportunity for music creators from all backgrounds to work alongside new creative partners, and to forge new relationships, the camp – which was successfully trialed last October – is set to cater for something sorely missed with the…

  • Caribou To Play Dublin Next Week

    January 24, 2022 - By 

    Caribou’s Dublin show is back on. Following the postponement of the January 19th date, the Canadian producer and musician – aka Dan Snaith – will perform at Dublin’s Vicar Street on Tuesday, February 1st. Original tickets remain valid. Both as Caribou and in the guise of Daphni, Snaith has played Dublin a number of times over the years, including a show at Vicar Street back in 2014.

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – January 14th

    January 14, 2022 - By 

    As anticipated, 2022 has gotten off to an incredibly strong start on the new Irish music front. Here’s the best of the lot, featuring, Silverbacks, CMAT, Whozyerman?, Pixie Cut Rhythm Orchestra, NewDad and more. Silverbacks – A Job Worth Something CMAT – Lonely Pixie Cut Rhythm Orchestra – Empty Envelope Whozyerman? – The Year (….) NewDad – Say It And So I Watch You From Afar – Ill Lung Robyn G Shiels – Constant Reminder constant reminder : demo by robyn g shiels No Monster Club – Save The Circus banríon – end times end times by banríon Fontaines D.C.…

  • The Thin Air’s Top 100 Irish Tracks of 2021

    December 16, 2021 - By 

    Without a shadow of a doubt, more new Irish music has flown into our inboxes over the last 12 months than any year since we launched back in 2013. As we low-key stressed out on a shared Google doc to compile our annual end-of-year lists, it got us wondering: was it all happenstance or, you know, a direct result of [gestures wildly] all the shite that’s been going on? We can’t say for sure but the latter definitely checks out. Whether for release, distraction, or escape – stemming from time freed-up or inspiration en masse – artists from every corner of…