• Watch: Montauk Hotel – Sense of Place

    Five months on from the release of the debut EP – a release we said contained a “real earworming charm” – Dublin quartet Montauk Hotel have unveiled the video to their new sense ‘Sense of Place’. Nicely straddling the line between indie jangle and straight-up pop, the song – their foursome’s strongest and most confident effort to date – is accompanied by a video courtesy the band’s vocalist Claudia Verdecchia. Montauk Hotel launch the single upstairs in Whelan’s on Saturday, with support coming from Beauty Sleep and Exiles. Have yourself a Facebook event page.

  • #CorkLovesMusic Announces Youth and Music Series

    Organised in association with Cork YMCA and GroundFloor Productions, #CorkLovesMusic has announced its forthcoming Youth and Music series, the first in a string of talk and performance events aimed at younger musicians and prospective music professionals. Taking place in the heart of Cork City, upstairs in the historic YMCA building on Marlboro street on the afternoon of August 19th, experimental foursome God Alone, young folk outfit Sewing Club, Outsiders Entertainment and Rapha will all perform. As well as this, some local music industry pros including rapper Spekulative Fiktion, Eilís Dillon and Overblown’s Jamie Coughlan will all impart some invaluable words…

  • Watch: Wyvern Lingo – I Love You Sadie

    Back in June we shared ‘I Love You Sadie’, the latest – and quite possibly finest – single from Bray alt-pop threesome Wyvern Lingo. Having called it “another instant gem bursting at the seams with the threesome’s slick marriage of exquisite, RnB-inflected harmonies, groove-laden patterns and their collective ear for a killer hook” we’re pleased to share the track’s slick new video courtesy of Louise Gaffney (who, as you might well know, is also a member of Come On Live Long). One of the Irish songs of the summer? Easily.

  • EP Stream: Music For Dead Birds – Nail & Tooth

    Long favourites of ours here at The Thin Air, Galway experimental folk twosome Jimmy Monaghan and Dónal Walsh AKA Music For Dead Birds are a band whose lo-fi craft would not have been out of place on the roster of Sam Berger’s Homestead Records in the early 90s. Having first appeared on our radar back in 2011 via The Pope’s Sister – an album we said conjured the likes of Sebadoh and Polvo – the pair have drip-fed a series of releases in the interim, most recently 2015’s Your Brand New Life. New EP Nail & Tooth both marks the band’s 10th year in…

  • Another Love Story Add Final Additions

    Presented by Happenings and Homebeat, Another Love Story have added the final acts for its fourth annual outing at Killyon Manor in Co. Meath next weekend (August 18-20) With the likes of Katie Kim, Bantum, Tomorrows, ELLLL, Replete, Beach, I Am The Cosmos, Hilary Woods and Overhead, The Albatross already confirmed, David Kitt with Margie Jean Lewis and Jape, Love Olympics, Ships, Seen Your Video, Floor Staff, Vanishing Lakes, MKAI, as well as a host of talks and happenings also round off the bill for 2017. With weekend tickets sold out, some Sunday tickets are still available to buy here. Here’s the full line-up. We’ll be DJing in the Big Stretchy from 14.15-15.00…

  • And So I Watch You From Afar Set For Irish Tour in December

    North Coast instrumental rock heroes And So I Watch You From Afar have announced they will play four Irish dates in December. Having recently recorded their forthcoming fifth studio album in the States, the band – who are also setting off on a huge European and UK tour across October and November – will play the following dates at the tail-end of the year: December 28: Academy, Dublin December 29: Garbo’s, Castlebar, Co. Mayo December 30: Cyprus Avenue, Cork December 31: Roisin Dubh, Galway Tickets go on sale tomorrow.    

  • Watch: Elephant – Mirrors

    Just last week we featured ‘Mirrors’ by Dundalk-based artist and multi-instrumentalist Shane Clarke AKA Elephant, an effort we called a “Bowie-coloured route with distorted, effect laden guitars, sparkling keys and prominent drums propping up Clarke’s vocals”. The third single to be taken from his forthcoming second album, the song – which is “a pining for youth, mourning its mistakes and trying to recall just when it was that you became so cynical” – has been granted another, wonderfully crafted resonance courtesy of visuals from the videographers over at Farney House. Roll on album number two.

  • Premiere: Joey Gavin – Rolf/Run

    No stranger to provocative, accessibly experimental indie rock, the latest two-track from Thumper‘s Joey Gavin is called Rolf/Run, released on 7″ through prolific Irish DIY label Little L Records (Shamir, Homeshake, Alex Calder, Syd Kemp etc.). It’s a catchy psych-pop number whose acid-dripped King Gizzard-lite melody belies a more acerbic message, veiling a darkness even The Zombies would nary have attempted. It’s framed, as you might have guessed, around the shortcomings of institutional hierarchies, and the abuse of power that they’ve given rise to, without forgetting to check ourselves for letting it happen; evenly, he also explores the shortcomings of the witch-hunt that can, and does take place, it’s…

  • Watch: Alien She – Solitary

    Bearing the sonic imprint of everyone from Patti Smith and Sonic Youth to Joy Division and The Cure, ‘Solitary’ by Dublin three-piece Alien She is hands down their strongest and most compelling single effort to date. Set to feature on their forthcoming debut album Feeler – which is set for release via the excellent Art For Blind in the Autumn – it’s a spectral, solipsistic affair, whose lo-fi tone and tangents marry nicely with the track’s accompanying visuals. Edited by the band’s guitarist/vocalist Katie O’Neill, check out the video below. Revisit our 17 For ’17 piece with the band here. Check out our…

  • Watch: Meljoann – Private World (Live)

    You know what’s great and extremely re-watchable? This brand new live video of Irish producer, DJ and musician Meljoann performing ‘Private World’. Featuring a nice range of instruments and interfaces (namely Ableton Live, Akai LPD-8, MOTU Ultralite mk-3, JoeMeek threeQ, Alesis Vortex Wireless Keytar, and a guitar for all your gear heads), it is – as top comment on the video accurately sums up – a “deliriously fantastic” rendition, conjuring the likes of Prince and Janet Jackson fed through a prism of darkly electro sounds. THAT SOLO.