• Premiere: The Mad Dalton – Seafaring Man

    April 13, 2018 - By 

    Officially launched at Belfast’s Love & Death last night, ‘Seafaring Man’ is the new single by Belfast-based Scots-Canadian singer-songwriter Peter Sumadh AKA The Mad Dalton. Taken from his forthcoming debut album, Open Season – which will be released in June following a successful pledge campaign – it’s another full-bodied slice of wistful Americana that, rather than getting ensnared in the images and memories of the past, aims two eyes firmly on the horizon. Open Season is launched at Belfast’s Black Box on June 14. Have a first listen (and look at Chris Molloy’s video) below.

  • Stream: Arvo Party – Liberté

    April 12, 2018 - By 

    It came as no surprise to us when we discovered that Herb Magee aka Arvo Party was nominated for last year’s Northern Ireland Music Prize. In his review of the Belfast-based producer and musician’s self-titled debut album, Cathal McBride said, “With great Irish electronic acts like Solar Bears and Adultrock having called it a day within the last year, Magee sounds more than ready to take up the mantle they’ve left behind.” Seven months on, Magee continues to uphold this promise in style. A masterfully propulsive six minutes of electronica blurring sonic lines via late 1990s trance worships, simmering ambience surges,…

  • Iron & Wine, WhoMadeWho, Mano Le Tough and More Set for Body & Soul

    April 12, 2018 - By 

    With the likes of Fever Ray, Chronixx and Jon Hopkins making up the first announcement, Iron & Wine, WhoMadeWho and Mano Le Tough are amongst the latest acts announced for this year’s Body & Soul festival. Set to return to Ballinlough Castle in Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath across the Summer Solstice weekend of June 22-24, the festival will also welcome the following new additions – including many Irish acts: Pantha Du Prince, AV AV AV, Tshegue, Riley Pierce, Soulé, Lilla Vargen, Bitch Falcon, Pillow Queens, Barq, O Emperor, R.S.A.G., Bon Voyage, Hvmmingbyrd, Sing Along Social, Reckless in Love, Mano Le Tough with The…

  • Stream: Deadman’s Ghost – Trip Switch Down

    April 11, 2018 - By 

    Belfast producer and musician Jason Mills aka Deadman’s Ghost has returned with ‘Trip Switch Down’, a track featured in the trailer for this year’s Belfast Film Festival. Also set to feature as the opening track of a new Deadman’s Ghost EP set for release later this year, the track – which unfurls from drifting ambient electronica to full-blown, wonderfully layered Technicolour -was engineered in collaboration with David Baxter, who programmed the beats and had a hand in the overall production. The guitars and ebow drones that colour the track were largely recorded by Simon Mateer at MFR Recordings. Belfast Film festival runs…

  • Superorganism Set For Dublin Show

    April 10, 2018 - By 

    Hands down the buzziest band around, transatlantic indie-pop octet Superorganism will play Dublin’s Academy on Thursday, October 18. Tickets for the show – which are priced at €18.50 – go on sale this Friday at 10am. Taken from their self-titled debut album, watch the brand new video for ‘Night Time’ below.

  • Here’s Everything You Need To Know About It Takes A Village This Weekend

    April 9, 2018 - By 

    Ireland’s first ever live-in music festival, the inaugural It Takes a Village takes place at Trabolgan Holiday Village in Cork this weekend. Over three days, the holiday village will welcome the likes of Young Fathers (pictured), Fujiya & Miyagi, Andrew Weatherall, Oh Pep!, Talos, Lankum, Saint Sister, The Altered Hours and many more. Without a shadow of a doubt, it’s going to be a memorable weekend in East Cork. If you’re heading, the following timetables and site map are exactly what you’ll be wanting. Some tickets are still available right here.

  • Arctic Monkeys Set For 3Arena

    April 9, 2018 - By 

    With their forthcoming sixth studio album, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, set for release on May 11, it’s been announced that Arctic Monkeys will play Dublin’s 3Arena on September 24. As well as play TRNSMT Festival in Glasgow in July, the band will play the following UK and Irish dates – supported by the Lemon Twigs – throughout September: 6 United Kingdom – Manchester – Manchester Arena 7 United Kingdom – Manchester – Manchester Arena 9 United Kingdom – London – The O2 10 United Kingdom – London – The O2 15 United Kingdom – Birmingham – Arena Birmingham 18…

  • Premiere: Just Mustard – Pigs

    April 6, 2018 - By 

    Fast becoming favourites of ours here at The Thin Air, Dundalk five-piece Just Mustard fully caught our attention in September last year with the release of ‘Tainted’, a track we said was “made for soundtracking solitary, stoned night walks reflecting on what needs to be done.” Taken from their forthcoming debut album, Wednesday, new single ‘Pigs’ is another step up. A soporific meld of blissed-out textures and noise-soaked squalls, it taps right into that exact feeling that creeps in at great small Irish festival around the early evening. You know the one we’re talking about. According to the band, with Wednesday they have…

  • Johnny Marr Set For Album Launch Show in Dublin

    April 6, 2018 - By 

    Johnny Marr will play a show at the Button Factory on Saturday, May 12 to mark the release of his third album, Call The Comet. The Smiths legend and solo artist will play the Dublin venue as part of a 12-date run across Europe and the US. “Call The Comet’ is my own magic realism,” says Marr. “It’s set in the not-too-distant future and is mostly concerned with the idea of an alternative society. The characters in the songs are searching for a new idealism, although there are some personal songs in there too. It’s something that people like me can relate…

  • Stream: Lambing Season – Holywood and Girls

    April 6, 2018 - By 

    A self-proclaimed “journey from fear of the unknown, fear of change, fear of commitment to joyous absolution” ‘Holywood and Girls is the new single from Belfast band Lambing Season. Following on from the release of last December’s ‘Memory and the Flood’, the track – which was recorded by Ben McAuley at Belfast’s Start Together Studios and will feature on their forthcoming album The Quickening – unfurls from soothing, Quarterstick Records-esque jangle to reveal a band equally adept at emotionally-charged, harmony-driven pop-rock balladry and jagged alt-rock experimentalism. Nowadays, it’s tricky carving out a niche in this particularly sonic realm – for…