• Stream: Alarmist – Morning, Kepler

    March 2, 2015 - By 

    Recorded and engineered by Solar Bears‘ Rian Trench at Meadow Studios, Co. Wicklow last year, Dublin quartet Alarmist have unveiled ‘Morning, Kepler’, the lead single from their forthcoming debut album. A vibrant, suitably sun-kissed instrumental effort for the first day of Spring, the track weaves a sublime patterns over almost five minutes, leaving one with an even stronger impression that Alarmist remain one of the country’s most forward-thinking and distinctive outfits. The follow up to 2013’s Pal Magnet EP, the band’s forthcoming album is expected to drop in the Autumn. With a Belfast date on the cards, check out Alarmist’s forthcoming tour dates…

  • AVA Festival Announces Conference Details

    February 27, 2015 - By 

    Set to take place at T13 in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter on Saturday, May 30, the first wave of details for the conference end of the inaugural AVA Festival has been revealed. With talks, panel discussions and workshops set to feature throughout the day, Keynote speakers will feature DJ Nu-Mark of Jurassic 5 and Adam Smith, long-term AV collaborator with The Chemical Brothers. Industry leaders and key partners including Ashley Howard of Hospital Records, the Vice President of Beatport, Terry Weerasinghe, Paul Hamil AKA Psycatron and more will make an appearance. Go here to read details of the acts performing at…

  • Watch: No Spill Blood – El Duurto (Live)

    February 26, 2015 - By 

    Hands down Dublin’s most intriguing and enthralling dystopia-evoking trio, No Spill Blood have released a live video of their performing the aptly-titled ‘El Duurto’. In typical NSB fashion, it’s furious and frantic, where doom and space-rock merge in a heady battle of the wills. The video – full of claustrophobic close-shots – was shot and edited by Neil Hoare in Dublin. ‘El Duurto’ will feature on the band’s forthcoming Sargent House-released debut album, Heavy Electricity.

  • BeeMickSee – The Belfast Yank

    February 26, 2015 - By 

    Portland-born, Belfast-raised rapper BeeMickSee releases his long-awaited, aptly-titled debut album The Belfast Yank globally on March 16.  Some of the tracks have been made available through previous EPs & singles, available to check out on Bandcamp. With the question hanging over the album of: “What do you do when your parents move you from the hipster mecca that is Portland Oregon to the urban jungle that is post-ceasefire Belfast?”, the former punk-hop Bomb City 7 alumnus Brendan Seamus eschews the usual misogynist hip-hop patter – instead favouring lyrics chartering the experience of relocation in an unfamiliar, often uncivilised society, cross-Atlantic cultural parallels, strained relationships and bullying. Recorded in Start…

  • Watch: Malojian – Communion Girls

    February 23, 2015 - By 

    Stevie Scullion AKA Malojian has long been one of our favourite songsmiths from these shores. A real master of the hushed, understated acoustic lullaby, he has an extraordinarily for bringing a room to a pin-drop silence with a few softly-strummed chords and a repartee or two of plainly-sung truth. Directed by the equally gifted Richard Davis, the video for Scullion’s new single, ‘Communion Girls’, is a touching, darkly humorous and beautifully rendered piece, one that we couldn’t recommend you any more highly for giving the once over. ‘Communion Girls’ is taken from Malojian’s forthcoming album Southlands. Get involved in its…

  • Watch: Girl Band – Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage? (NSFW)

    February 23, 2015 - By 

    Falling rather comfortably under the “absolutely mental” category, Girl Band have unveiled the positively NSFW video for their eight-minute cover of Blawan’s ‘Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage?’ Needless to say, we mean “absolutely mental” in the best possible sense, and shall divulge no more information at the risk of marring the twisted intriguing of the stark, surreal visual accompaniment to one of the Dublin band’s best live cuts, which is set to feature on the band’s The Early Years EP on April 21 – their first release on Rough Trade. Make sure to check out the March issue of…

  • More Acts Announced for Longitude

    February 20, 2015 - By 

    Joining the likes of headliners Hozier, Alt-J and The Chemical Brothers, seventeen new acts have been confirmed to play this year’s Longitude Festival. Taking place in Dublin’s Marlay Park over the weekend of Friday, July 17, the festival has revealed the following new additions to the schedule, with more still to be announced: James Blake, The Vaccines, Metronomy, Pusha T, Todd Terje, Danny Brown, Glass Animals, Everything Everything, Toro y Moi, Daphni, Jose Gonzalez, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Years & Years, Ibeyi, Benjamin Booker, Tove Lo, The Districts. Tickets are on sale now.

  • Where To Get The Thin Air Magazine

    February 20, 2015 - By 

    We’ve been getting quite a few people asking where exactly they can pick up a copy of our free, monthly magazine, so here’s a full list of where you can grab one in Belfast and Dublin. We’ll be fully expanding our distribution to Derry, Galway and Cork from March – fun times! Belfast Laverys, Woodworkers, Boojum (Botanic and Chichester Street), Black Box, Established Coffee, Voodoo, Black Bear, Cuckoo, Oh Yeah Centre, The Bar With No Name, Filthy McNastys, Dragon Records, Sick Records, Bubbacue, Pavilion Bar, Errigle Bar, Sinnamon (Botanic and Stranmillis), The Garrick, Nero (Europa, Rosemary Street & Fountain Street), QFT,…

  • Premiere: Go Wolf – Running (Live)

    February 17, 2015 - By 

    Over the last couple of years, Belfast electro-pop band Go Wolf have progressively cultivated a perfectly balmy, synth-driven sound underpinned with an impressive command of subtly brilliant, enamouring melodies. Ahead of their OLD FANG-hosted EP launch at Belfast’s Menagerie on March 6, Scott and Hannah from the band have recorded a stripped-back version of ‘Running’ at OLD FANG HQ – a performance that really captures that aforementioned melodic knack. Watch the performance below and go here to buy tickets to the band’s EP launch right here

  • Premiere: Autumns – Blonde EP

    February 16, 2015 - By 

    Fronted by Christian Donaghey, Derry noise-pop trio Autumns are easily one of our favourite live acts from Northern Ireland. Their shows are generally compact, explosive affairs; whirlwinds of feedback-soaked noise and jangling gusto. Released via Belfast’s CF Records, the band’s new four-track EP, Blonde, manages to contain the fervent, kinetic essence of their live show, bursting out of the traps on ‘Je Vous Être’ and crashing back down to earth on ‘You’re Not Tough Enough’. The follow-up up to their Downwards-released debut mini album, the EP was recorded in a single day at their first ever studio recording at Belfast’s Start Together. Blonde…