• Watch: Tandem Felix – Nightclub (I Sold My Soul To The Devil)

    July 25, 2019 - By 

    Perennial TTA faves and Americana songwriting masters Tandem Felix are back with their first single in two years, ‘Nightclub (I Sold My Soul To The Devil)’. Pristine slide parts and curveballing synth moments accompany the “tale of a boy who makes a Faustian pact; exchanging his soul for the means to spend every remaining night inside a grotty club”. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the band have one-upped themselves once more – ‘Nightclub’ offers a clarity of vision and progression of their country-informed storytelling, exciting us for what’s to come on their long-awaited debut album, Rom-Com. Songwriter David Tapley had this to say of the song: “Over three nights, over three…

  • Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains

    July 25, 2019 - By 

    David Berman quit music in 2009. The reasons for retiring his two-decade spanning cult indie-country-rock project as Silver Jews were characteristically bleak. The disbandment, Berman revealed, was because he felt “the SJs were too small of a force to ever come close to undoing a millionth of all the harm” wrought by his Washington lobbyist father, known to many as Dr Evil.  He also, relatable, just wanted more time to read and work on his poetry. Surprisingly then, this year came the announcement of Berman’s first album in ten years, the unexpected eponymous Purple Mountains – and it’s a tentative…

  • The Lion King

    July 25, 2019 - By 

    Real life looks boring. Rocks look boring. Trees look boring. Fluffy animals look boring. No-one opens their curtains in the morning and thinks wow, look at all that! This is a problem for The Lion King, one that sinks Disney’s photo-realistic reproduction almost from the word go. Jon Favreau’s nearly beat-for-beat prideland retread (new scenes expand the 1994 original’s 88 minute runtime) is a weird, alienating exercise in uncanny cynicism: the transparent cash-grabbing motive is depressing, but not nearly as depressing as having to actually watch the thing, which ticks over with the shiny time-killing futility of a high-res screensaver.…

  • Watch: New Jackson – Romancecar (Homeway)

    July 24, 2019 - By 

    New Jackson has shared an abstract, nostalgic video for ‘Romancecar (Homeway)’. The track, which closed the Dublin artist AKA David Kitt‘s recent Romancecar EP on Permanent Vacation with a gorgeous ambient flourish, piqued the interests of filmmaker Jack Ashley, who has created a collage-like video comprised of images of two amateur dancers he filmed in south London, as well as the bric-a-brac that filled their home. It’s a touching, minimal affair and makes for a perfect companion for the track’s synth swells and weaving chimes. “I heard David’s EP and was super keen to reach out to him,” says Ashley of the video.…

  • Knockanstockan 2019

    July 23, 2019 - By 

    2019 will be remembered as a phenomenal year for fans of Irish music with so many genres showing substantial growth and development. Hype has been reverberating throughout the whole scene but too often these acts that are doing so well are overlooked by festival line-ups. This year, Knockanstockan is an exception to that rule with the entire line-up feeling like a homage to Irish growth. Boasting a line-up that incorporates the vast range of sounds on display in Ireland’s musical canon right now, Knockanstockan 2019 is admirable in its dedication to eclecticism and musical inclusivity and makes itself a fore-runner…

  • Slipknot To Kick Off 2020 European Tour in Dublin

    July 19, 2019 - By 

    Everyone’s favourite mask-clad metallers Slipknot will return to play Dublin next year. As of yet, the date and venue for the show are to be announced, but the Corey Taylor-fronted band will kick off their 2020 European tour in the capital. They last played Dublin in 2015, as part of their Prepare For Hell tour. The band will release their sixth studio album We Are Not Your Kind via Roadrunner on August 9. You can get early access to tickets for the Dublin show by pre-ordering the album here.

  • the arts column: July 24th

    July 24, 2019 - By 

    This week we’ve details on a serious of events taking place across Dublin with pop-up shops, exhibitions, yoga, gigs and cycling; and while this is a diverse and broad set of events there all art related or themed. As always, if you have an event, talk, exhibition, or would like to recommend one please get in touch via aidan[at]thethinair.net Topical Popical @ National Gallery, Dublin As part of their summer long collaboration with the National Gallery of Ireland Dublin nail aficionados Tropical Popical have a pop-up shop in the gallery this coming Friday. Open from 10am until 5pm, the shop is part of their R…

  • Battles Set For Dublin Show

    July 23, 2019 - By 

    NYC experimental rock masters Battles will play Dublin later this year. With Dave Konopka having left the band last year due to personal reasons, the duo of Ian Williams and John Stanier will play the Button Factory on October 24. Tickets are priced at €28 and go on sale on Friday at 10am.