• Lauryn Hill Set For Dublin Show

    May 23, 2018 - By 

    As part of a world tour celebrating twenty years of her seminal debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Lauryn Hill will play Dublin’s 3Arena on Friday, November 30. Speaking about the tour, Hill said, “This album chronicled an intimate piece of my young existence. It was the summation of most, if not all, of my most hopeful and positive emotions experienced to that date. I loved and believed deeply in my community’s ability to both love and heal itself provided it received the right amount of support and encouragement. Our world today, both complex and changing, is in need…

  • The Sea and Cake – Any Day

    May 22, 2018 - By 

    Chicagoan supergroup, The Sea and Cake sprang from the mid-western city’s post-rock hotbed during the early ’90s, bringing together members of bands such as Shrimp Boat and Tortoise to create a singularly sophisticated sound. Over the course of 11 albums The Sea and Cake have plied an increasingly finessed trade, melding a love of jazz, bossa nova and ’70s Krautrock with their own breezy indie rock instincts, tearing an unlikely wormhole between the parallel universes of Astrud Gilberto, Neu! and Guided by Voices.  The band’s latest effort Any day, which arrives after a lengthy six year break, flashes to life…

  • Monday Mixtape: Athens of the North

    May 21, 2018 - By 

    Athens of the North is a mighty reissue label that specialises in rare soul, funk, disco, Brazilian and boogie. Their releases consistently charm and surprise us at The Thin Air, and we love how they make sense on modern dancefloors. For this edition of Monday Mixtape, Gareth Sommerville from the label selects a few things you might hear this Friday 25 May, when he and his pal Lel Palfrey DJ at Bullitt’s sunny courtyard. Get to know. Ethel Beatty ‘I Know You Care’ Arranged and produced by the genius that is Roy Ayers. This is a great early doors tune/scene…

  • Michael Black – Memoirs

    May 29, 2018 - By 

    Having recently been featured on the official Piano Day 2018 playlist, curated by Nils Frahm, Belfast-based multi-instrumentalist & composer Michael Black is set to release his debut album, Memoirs, on June 13. Across its fifteen tracks of unaccompanied piano, Black weaves the personal with the classical, evoking contemporary classic composers like Arvo Pärt and minimalism’s man-of-the-moment, Nils Frahm. “I understood that by releasing something as intimate as Memoirs, I’d leave myself very exposed and somewhat vulnerable. but I couldn’t expect the listener to dwell and reflect on these thoughts in their own manner unless I provided an honest account in the first place. My wish is that Memoirs…

  • Watch: Brigid Mae Power – I’m Grateful

    May 21, 2018 - By 

    ‘I’m Grateful’ by Galway-based Irish artist Brigid Mae Power is a heart-rending peak from her extraordinary third album, The Two Worlds. Now, the track – which mines a chimera from a well of emotion and intent via minimalist, slowcore-leaning folk – comes accompanied with visuals directed, filmed and edited by Myles O’Reilly of Arbutus Yarns, and features art direction and Super 8 footage by his fellow This Ain’t No Disco collaborator Donal Dineen. Read our review of The Two Worlds here and our recent interview with Brigid Mae Power here.

  • Irish Tour: Snow Patrol

    May 22, 2018 - By 

    Snow Patrol embarked on their Irish tour last week with gigs in Cork and Dublin. Photos by Silvio Severino and Moira Reilly. Snow Patrol live at Cyprus Avenue, Cork Snow Patrol with support from Brand New Friend at Olympia Theatre, Dublin