• Sounds From a Safe Harbour Announce Film Programme

    July 28, 2025 - By 

    Sounds from a Safe Harbour has always operated with a different frequency, tuning in to depth, community and the unexpected. Two months on from dropping this year’s line-up – featuring the likes of Jon Hopkins & S. Carey, Efterklang, Beth Orton, Lisa Hannigan, Villagers, and Rhiannon Giddens – organisers have now revealed its equally impressive film programme. Expanding the festival’s signature emphasis on ritual and resonance,, this year’s strand blends music documentaries, premieres and artist Q&As into a cinematic programme as carefully assembled as the live schedule itself. Taking over The Arc Cinema, Triskel Christchurch and Cork Opera House, the…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 25th July

    July 25, 2025 - By 

    Fate has forced our hand: we’re declaring today Irish Music Christmas. Unwrap brand new music from The Mary Wallopers, Junior Brother, pôt-pot, God Knows, Mícheál Keating, CMAT, SexyTadhg, For Those I Love, OG Cunt & The 1240 and much more – including The Sky Was a Mouth Again, the absolutely essential new compilation from Diet of Worms. Following 2024’s Hunger Is Violence, Irish imprint Diet of Worms returns with The Sky Was a Mouth Again, a feral, genre-leaping collection of radical reworks of Richard Berry’s 1955 classic ‘Louie Louie’. Featuring experimental artists from Ireland and beyond, this compilation spans drone,…

  • Premiere: Inni-K – In The Beat

    July 22, 2025 - By 

    Following April’s scene-setting lead single ‘Beatha,’ ‘In the Beat’ marks the second transmission from Still a Day, the upcoming fourth studio album from Kildare-born, Dublin-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Eithne Ní Chatháin, aka Inni-K. Set for release this Autumn via Green Willow Records, it’s a record already shaping up to be her most creatively expansive and emotionally attuned work to date. If ‘Beatha’ offered a sublime glimpse into that journey, In the Beat is a deepening; a rare-as-hen’s-teeth kind of deliverance consigned to song. Softly incandescent and sorcerously assured, In the Beat finds Ní Chatháin at her most nuanced and…

  • Monday Mixtape: Ricky Chong

    July 21, 2025 - By 

    One of our favourite DJs on the island, Ricky Chong guides us through a selection of tracks that inspire him ahead of his All Night Long headliner at Tengu in Dublin on August 9th, from Early Byrds to Carol Kidd. Aura – Short And Sweet Aura was one of my few introductions into jazz-funk infused disco music. Hailing from Hawaii, this band was known for their luscious and tight horn section as well as top-notch vocals. The whole album is pretty spot on, with a mix of slow jams all the way to their jazz-infused disco steppers. Highly recommend everyone…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 18th July

    July 18, 2025 - By 

    Another fully stacked week. Here’s our pick of the best new Irish music, featuring fresh cuts from Rún, Patrick Kelleher, The Redneck Manifesto, Bricknasty, Iona Zajac, Data.Soul, Our Krypton Son, Exhalers, Tebi Rex’s curtain call, Kormac & Katie Kim’s new collaboration, an essential Luxury / Feral Torch split — and the title track from President Michael D. Higgins’ debut spoken word album. Michael D. Higgins & Myles O’Reilly – Against All Certainty Rún – Strike It Iona Zajac – Anton Patrick Kelleher – Solar Wind Solar Wind by Patrick Kelleher The Redneck Manifesto – Off The Hook Grushy by The…

  • Féile Na Gréine Unveil 2025 Line-Up

    July 18, 2025 - By 

    More than just returning, Féile Na Gréine is set to roar back into Limerick next month with a line-up and programme that further cements its place as one of Ireland’s most vital DIY institutions. Running from August 15th-17th, the 2025 edition will once again transform the city into a three-day trail of underground sounds, communal energy and fiercely independent spirit. From art spaces and craft breweries to churches and alleyways, the festival’s city-spanning approach remains as refreshingly unorthodox, and beautifully rooted, as ever. This year’s line-up underscores the festival’s boundary-pushing ethos: from the Connemara-inspired shoegaze of Maria Somerville and the…

  • Premiere: Our Krypton Son – Blue Skies Over Curlew

    July 17, 2025 - By 

    If you’ve spent any time with The Thin Air over the past decade and a bit, chances are you’ll be familiar with our long-standing appreciation of Derry artist Chris McConaghy, better known as Our Krypton Son. Since the release of his self-titled debut back in 2012 – a record that remains one of the most quietly devastating and fully-formed debut albums to ever emerge from the North –  McConaghy has continued to carve out a singular path. With Fleas & Diamonds and Modern Ruins, he didn’t just build on that early promise: he expanded it into something deeper and more…

  • Rún Summon Second Single ‘Strike It’

    July 16, 2025 - By 

    Rún’s second single is here, and with it, any lingering sense of mystery around their potential (which was quite literally nil, to be fair) dissolves into something far more powerful. Out now via Rocket Recordings, ‘Strike It’ is a possessed, slow-burning marvel: sludge bass, sky-splitting force and Tara Baoth Mooney’s incantatory vocals summoning something ancient, unholy and vital. Clocking in at under five minutes, it’s a masterclass in widescreen tension and release, capturing a band in full psychic bloom. The single lands two months after the seismic arrival of ‘Terror Moon’ and ahead of their performance at the always unmissable…

  • Bob Dylan Announces Irish Dates

    July 11, 2025 - By 

    Bob Dylan has announced a string of Irish dates for the end of the year, including his first Belfast shows in over 20 years. As part of his ongoing Rough and Rowdy Ways world tour, Dylan will stop off at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall on 19th and 20th November, Gleneagle Arena in Killarney on 23rd and 24th of November, and a makes a return to Dublin’s 3Arena on 25th November. Tickets go on sale at 10am next Friday, 18th July. Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways world tour has been rolling since 2021, and at 84, he’s still taking it on…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 11th July

    July 11, 2025 - By 

    We gently implore you to check out Poor Creature’s highly-anticipated debut album All Smiles, remixes of ØXN’s Cruel Mother by DROKK and Ben Frost, the latest single from NewDad’s just-announced second LP, essential new NewDad, Talos & Olafur Arnalds, Fierce Shook and more. Poor Creature – All Smiles Tonight All Smiles Tonight by Poor Creature ØXN – Cruel Mother Remixes ØXN – Cruel Mother by ØXN Hamer Place – All That I Knew Was Blue All That I Knew Was Blue by Hamer Place NewDad – Rooibos Talos and Ólafur Arnalds – A Dawning Fierce Shook – Up and Down…