• Premiere: Anto and the Echoes – Hollywood Baby

    December 13, 2018 - By 

    Belfast-based Fermanagh six-piece Anto and the Echoes are a band that have long prided themselves on their live show. It’s something that shines through and then some in the video for their new single, ‘Hollywood Baby’. Running parallel with the track’s rock-pop bombast (good luck finding a catchier chorus this side of Christmas) Declan Ó Grianna’s video – which features the band and some of their fans in the thick of it at the National Club on Queen Street in Belfast – puts cutting loose firmly centre-stage. Have a first look below. Photo by Rebecca Dougan

  • Bob Dylan and Neil Young To Play Kilkenny

    December 13, 2018 - By 

    Having recently announced a show together at London’s Hyde Park, it’s been announced that Bob Dylan and Neil Young will play Kilkenny next summer. Billed as their only appearance in Ireland, the icons will play the 27,800-capacity Nowlan Park stadium on Sunday, July 14. Tickets – which are priced from €76 – go on sale this Monday at 9am.

  • Oh Sees Set For Irish Shows

    December 13, 2018 - By 

    San Francisco garage rock masters Oh Sees will return to play Ireland next year. The ever-prolific, John Dwyer-fronted band will play Belfast’s Limelight 1 on Monday, May 20 and Dublin’s Button Factory on May 21. Tickets – which are priced £22 and €25 respectively – go on sale this Friday at 9am. Revisit the band’s twenty-first album, Smote Reverser, below.

  • Stream: Eoin Dolan – Quiet Christmas

    December 11, 2018 - By 

    Four months on from releasing easily one of the Irish EPs of the year – the superb, sci-fi-tinged four-tracker Superior Fiction – Galway singer-songwriter Eoin Dolan is back with one of modern music’s big aberrations: a legitimately great Christmas single. Marrying sleigh bells and heady surf melodies with killer indie-pop lo-fidelity, it’s almost certainly the only festive single from an Irish artist that you should bother checking out this year.

  • Premiere: Cal Folger Day – Apples + Reprise

    December 11, 2018 - By 

    Including ‘Homez-a-Place‘ and ‘Song From a Party‘, Dublin-based New Yorker Cal Folger Day has released a steady stream of sonically mottled and consistently compelling EPs and singles over the years. Her latest project is The Woods and Grandma, a verbatim pop-about Lady Gregory, which was recorded live in Dublin at Ailfionn by Christopher Barry and mixed/mastered in LA by Hans Zimmer engineer Forest Christenson. Set for broadcast on RTÉ Lyric FM on Sunday (December 16) between 6-7pm, the show – which scooped the Little Gem award at the 2017 Dublin Fringe Festival – will go on a two-week East Coast US tour with…

  • Stream: Gnarkats – Take Me Away

    December 10, 2018 - By 

    Gnarkats’ knack for blending burrowing, star-shaped melodies with low-end riffs saw them emerge as one of Ireland’s best alt-indie bands this year. Citing the likes of Fidlar, St. Vincent and fellow Belfast-based band, And So I Watch You From Afar, as key influences, Jordan Evans, Stuart Robinson and Louis Nelson are back with their final song of the year, ‘Take Me Away’. A re-recording of an old fan favourite, the single – which comes accompanied with a wonderfully DIY video, which you can watch below – was recorded and mixed by Stuart Robinson from the band.

  • Win Tickets to The Murder Capital in Belfast and Dublin

    December 10, 2018 - By 

    We’ve a pair of tickets to give away to two Murder Capital shows this week: Wednesday (December 12th) at Voodoo in Belfast and Dublin’s Workman’s Club on Friday. To enter, simply e-mail info@thethinair.net with the following question and indicate which show you would like to attend: What is the name of the Murder Capital’s frontman?

  • Villagers and Aldous Harding for Iveagh Gardens

    December 10, 2018 - By 

    Conor O’Brien’s Villagers are the latest act announced to headline Iveagh Gardens next summer. Supported by Aldous Harding, the band – who released one of the Irish albums of 2018, The Art of Pretending to Swim, in September – will play the Dublin show on Friday, July 12. Tickets go on sale on Thursday, December 13 at 9am.

  • First Acts Announced For Forbidden Fruit 2019

    December 10, 2018 - By 

    Forbidden Fruit have revealed their first names for 2019. The annual festival – which returns to Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin across the Bank Holiday weekend of June 1-3 – will welcome Skepta, Danny Brown, Mura Masa, Elbow, First Aid Kit, Jon Hopkins, Paul Kalkbrenner, Maribou State, Mall Grab, Daniel Avery, Polo & Pan, Homeshake, Ross from Friends and Saint Sister. More acts are to be announced. Day and weekend tickets go on sale at 9am on Thursday.

  • The Thin Air’s Semi-Alternative Christmas Playlist

    December 10, 2018 - By 

    To celebrate our collective itchy feet awaiting the onset of socially acceptable daytime drinking, half-arsed cracker pulling and hastily-concocted post-pub sandwiches, here’s our annual Semi-Alternative Christmas Playlist – featuring everyone from Yo La Tengo, Big Star and Mazzy Star to The Fall, Mark Kozelek and Deerhoof.