• Eels – The Deconstruction

    April 10, 2018 - By 

    Describing the thesis of The Deconstruction, Eels’ twelfth record and first in four years, Mark Oliver Everett retains a phrase commonplace in conversations happening globally: “The world is going nuts.” That is not to say, however, that his outlook for the future is bleak. If anything, he is hopeful: “If you look for it, there is still great beauty to be found. Sometimes you don’t even have to look for it. Other times you have to try to make it yourself. And then there are times you have to tear something apart to find something beautiful inside.” There are plenty of…

  • Arcade Fire @ 3Arena, Dublin

    April 10, 2018 - By 

    Having played a massive show at Malahide castle last year, Arcade Fire return with the Infinite Content tour, sardonically named to jibe at the social media age, just one of the many tactics deployed throughout the promotion around their current album, Everything Now. Tonight, in keeping with that off kilter theme they’ve created a show ‘in the round’ – complete with a boxing ring and Michael Buffer style announcements of their accolades as they appear from the far corner of the 3Arena, air-punching alongside flashing ironic graphics of infomercials and ‘tale of the tape’ biographies appear on the 360 degree…

  • Watch: Eraser TV – (1-800 COAST 2 COAST)

    April 13, 2018 - By 

    Modern Classic is the logically-titled sequel to last year’s Buzzfeed Depression Quiz from self-aware Limerick indie rockers Eraser TV, one of the exciting DIY acts to emerge from the city in the past year. Their second EP once more plays upon the tense, gently experimental discordance underlying in their breezy, occasionally loungy lo-fi indie rock as frontman Cian McGuirk pines throughout, channeling some Pavement circa Crooked Rain wistful reflection on the wonderful ‘Season 2’. Drawing from the everything-is-commercial-bliss vaporwave aesthetic, they’ve just released a video for for ‘(1-800) COAST 2 COAST’. Seeping the liquescent chorus of decades gone by, it’s a hepped-up, psych-tinged take on what Sonic Youth were doing around Evol.…

  • Here’s Everything You Need To Know About It Takes A Village This Weekend

    April 9, 2018 - By 

    Ireland’s first ever live-in music festival, the inaugural It Takes a Village takes place at Trabolgan Holiday Village in Cork this weekend. Over three days, the holiday village will welcome the likes of Young Fathers (pictured), Fujiya & Miyagi, Andrew Weatherall, Oh Pep!, Talos, Lankum, Saint Sister, The Altered Hours and many more. Without a shadow of a doubt, it’s going to be a memorable weekend in East Cork. If you’re heading, the following timetables and site map are exactly what you’ll be wanting. Some tickets are still available right here.

  • Stream: Meltybrains? – Horizon

    April 9, 2018 - By 

    Remember Dublin experimental maestros Meltybrains? Good – you should. Right up there with the country’s most singular sonic propositions, the five-piece have returned with their first new material in 18 months via ‘Horizon’. Unsurprisingly, it kicks several shades of ass. Starting on a slithering pattern evoking St. Vincent’s ‘Rattlesnake’, the track bursts into full-blown cosmic-tech-metal bombast in ways only Meltybrains? can conjure. And that’s just taking into consideration the first 30 seconds. It’s a first taste of what is set to be a busy return for the band. “We’ve been very busy recently, for the past year and a half we’ve been recording loads…

  • Monday Mixtape: The Hot Sprockets

    April 9, 2018 - By 

    We asked Dublin indie-soul maestros The Hot Sprockets to share some tunes that inspired them during the making and recording of their latest album ‘Dream Mover’ which was released last week. As a band lately, we’ve really opened our horizons as to where we can go as musicians these batch of songs and artists had a huge influence on our sound and mindset for Dream Mover. Some are direct production references and others for their stylistic and instrumental approach. Enjoy! DREAM MOVER by The Hot Sprockets

  • Arctic Monkeys Set For 3Arena

    April 9, 2018 - By 

    With their forthcoming sixth studio album, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, set for release on May 11, it’s been announced that Arctic Monkeys will play Dublin’s 3Arena on September 24. As well as play TRNSMT Festival in Glasgow in July, the band will play the following UK and Irish dates – supported by the Lemon Twigs – throughout September: 6 United Kingdom – Manchester – Manchester Arena 7 United Kingdom – Manchester – Manchester Arena 9 United Kingdom – London – The O2 10 United Kingdom – London – The O2 15 United Kingdom – Birmingham – Arena Birmingham 18…

  • Premiere: Just Mustard – Pigs

    April 6, 2018 - By 

    Fast becoming favourites of ours here at The Thin Air, Dundalk five-piece Just Mustard fully caught our attention in September last year with the release of ‘Tainted’, a track we said was “made for soundtracking solitary, stoned night walks reflecting on what needs to be done.” Taken from their forthcoming debut album, Wednesday, new single ‘Pigs’ is another step up. A soporific meld of blissed-out textures and noise-soaked squalls, it taps right into that exact feeling that creeps in at great small Irish festival around the early evening. You know the one we’re talking about. According to the band, with Wednesday they have…

  • The Altered Hours w/ Documenta @ Menagerie, Belfast

    April 6, 2018 - By 

    The Menagerie has really gone from strength to strength since reopening late last year. The galaxy print exterior may have been replaced by a more austere matt black emulsion and the management may even have decided to indulge patrons with something as frivolously bourgeois as a mirror in the gents but the soul of the bar and its reputation as Belfast’s consummate coven of alternative spirit remain wholly intact. Tonight’s appearance by Belfast’s sprawling drone pop ensemble Documenta and Cork based rockers Altered Hours gives the thunderous new PA system ample opportunity to shine, proving once again that the Menagerie…