We have a pair of tickets to give away to Hoboken indie rock legends Yo La Tengo at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on Saturday, April 28. To enter, simply send your answer to the following question to info@thethinair.net: What is the title of Yo La Tengo’s third studio album? Good luck!
An outright highlight of this year’s Drogheda Arts Festival, Spectrum aka Pete ‘Sonic Boom’ Kember will perform at Droichead Arts Centre on Friday, May 4. An exclusive Irish date, this is an unmissable opportunity to catch the Spacemen 3 founding member and E.A.R musician’s decades-spanning solo project. Support on the night comes from Drogheda’s very own ethereal down-tempo pop collective We Eat Electric Light, producers and musicians driven by a mutual interest in electronic and organic music, noises and sounds. They are working towards a cassette EP release soon via Drogheda-based thirtythree-45. Tickets – very reasonably priced between €18-€20 – are available…
Some artists are just destined to wind up on certain rosters. One such act is Dublin’s Hilary Woods, an artist whose solo craft we’ve followed with a certain glee over the last couple of years. On June 8, the musician, ex-JJ72 member and multi-instrumentalist will release her debut full-length album, Colt, via Brooklyn’s Sacred Bones, an indie imprint whose discerning (and, so far, pretty impeccable) penchant for repping acts such as Zola Jesus, Jenny Hval, David Lynch, John Carpenter, Blanck Mass and Marissa Nadler runs directly parallel with Woods’ very own crepuscular craft. Conjuring a woozed-out netherworld that wouldn’t feel in any way out…
Having last played the venue back in 2015, Kurt Vile will return to Dublin’s Vicar Street later this year. Taking place on November 14, the show will mark the end of a run of UK and Irish shows by the Philadelphia indie-rock musician. Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday.
The masterful Mercury Rev with support from Lyla Foy at Whelan’s in Dublin last night. Photos by Aaron Corr.
Few Northern Irish acts are on the up quite like Castlerock quartet Brand New Friend. From their release of almost dangerously-earworming debut EP, American Wives, back in 2016, the band’s brand of starry-eyed indie-pop will be on full display on their forthcoming debut album, Seatbelts For Airplanes. A sub-three minute burst marrying starry-eyed, harmony-driven sounds with confessional lyrics touching on the unspoken things in relationships, the album’s title track distils the Brand New Friend sound (essentially – once you hear it, you know it) perfectly. Shot by Gregory Nolan and edited by OneThirtyEight, have a first look at the video for the single below. Seatbelts For Airplanes is…
Pillow Queens with support from Girlfriend at the Workman’s Club in Dublin. Photos by Ciara Brennan.
The legendary Brian Wilson will return to Dublin to play his and the Beach Boys’ Greatest Hits live later this year. Performing alongside Al Jardine, Blondie Chaplin and his band, Wilson will plays tracks spanning his 54-year career at Vicar Street on August 21 and 22. Wilson last played the city last year at Bord Gais Energy Theatre as part of the Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary World Tour. Tickets for the show are €92.50 (Steep, for sure, but come on… Brian Wilson) and go on sale on Thursday, April 26 at 10am.
Hands down our favourite small Irish summer music festival, Another Love Story have announced the first acts set to play this year’s outing. Returning to Killyon Manor, Co. Meath across August 17-19, the festival – which is co-presented by Homebeat and Happenings – the following acts make up the first announcement: Mammal Hands, Cloud Castle Lake, The Lost Brothers, Ships, O Emperor, Mount Alaska, Somadrone, Davy Kehoe, R Kitt, Pillow Queens, Solkatt, Dowry, Joshua Burnside, Anna Mieke, Sorcha Ricahrdson, Deaf Joe, Robert John Ardiff, Nava, Roe, Inni K, The Silken Same, Sun Collective, Attention Bébé, Interskalatic, Graham Mc Sweeny, Simon O Reilly,…
On May 11, Arab Strap’s Aidan Moffat and fellow Scot, singer and guitarist RM Hubbert will release a collaborative album, Here Lies The Boy, via Rock Action. The release will precede live dates from the pair, who have announced a date at Dublin’s Grand Social on July 24. Special guest on the night is Glasgow singer-songwriter Siobhan Wilson. Tickets cost €18.50 and go on sale on Friday at 10am.