New Jersey indie rock legends Yo La Tengo return to Dublin for a show at Olympia Theatre on Saturday, April 28. Fancy snapping up a pair of tickets? Simply Like our Facebook page here and send your answer to the following question to info@thethinair.net: What is the title of Yo La Tengo’s third full-length studio album? Good luck!
Having just released one of the albums of the year in the critically-acclaimed Between The Earth and Sky, Dublin’s finest folk miscreants Lankum have announced a 10-date Irish Winter tour. Kicking off in Dundalk on November 19 and culminating in a show at Vicar Street on December 9, the tour also takes in a Belfast date at The Duncairn. See below for the full dates and go here for ticket info. Read CJ Mc Canney’s review of Between The Earth and Sky here. Have a peep at the sublime video for Lankum’s latest single, ‘The Granite Gaze’ (which we premiered…
Having returned last month with the brilliant ‘Lord’ – the lead single from their forthcoming third studio album – Mercury-prize winning Edinburgh trio Young Fathers will make their return to Dublin for a show at the Academy on March 28. The three-piece of Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and G. Hastings last played Dublin at Forbidden Fruit 2016 and Longitude back in 2015. Tickets for the Academy show are on sale, priced €25 inclusive of booking fee.
With the likes of Aine Cahill, Perfume Genius, and Songhoy Blues already announced, three new acts have been added to the bill for this year’s eir Other Voices in Dingle. Set to return to return across December 1-3, the annual Wild Atlantic Way festival has revealed that Django Django (pictured), Lankum, Loyle Carner and Booka Brass Band will make an appearance at St. James’ Church at this year’s outing. With many more acts to be announced, here is the current line-up:
Having last played the city back in 2015 at National Concert Hall, it’s been announced that New Jersey indie rock legends Yo La Tengo will return to Dublin on Saturday, April 28 for a show at the Olympia Theatre. The show kicks off the band threesome’s UK and European spring tour, and marks their first fully-fledged tour since the release of 2015’s Stuff Like That There. Accompanying the news is a hint that a new album might well be in the works: “keep your eyes peeled for more Yo La Tengo news coming soon in what promises to be a busy…
Hands down one of the finest cosmically-inclined twosomes in existence, Portland’s Sanae Yamada and Ripley Johnson AKA Moon Duo have announced that they will return to play Dublin early next year. The pair – who released the two-installment Occult Architecture Vol 1 and 2 this year – will stop off at Dublin’s Button Factory on Friday, January 26. Tickets go on sale this Friday (November 17) at 9am, priced €16. Best not to miss this one.
Ahead of the launch of their stellar new EP, Cruelest Animal, at Crane Lane on November 30, we talk to Jack Horgan and Mark Waldron-Hyden from Cork neo-psych five-piece The Sunshine Factory about influence, releasing via their own DIY label, Cork’s thriving scene at the minute, their plans for 2018 and more. Your forthcoming EP, Cruelest Animal collects some of your earlier recordings. A lot of bands would never dream to reveal their earlier trial-and-error. How did you come to the decision to compile and release the EP? Mark Waldron-Hyden (drums): Basically, since then and now we have recorded and…
Having played Dublin’s 3Arena back in May, heavy metal overlords Iron Maiden have announced that they will play Belfast’s SSE Arena as part of their Legacy of the Beast European Tour on August 2. Speaking about the tour – which kicks off in Estonia in May and concludes at London’s o2 Arena on August 10 – Maiden manager Rod Smallwood said, “For this History/Hits tour we decided to base the theme around the Legacy Of The Beast name, which suits our purposes perfectly by giving us scope to get creative and have some fun, especially with Eddie! I don’t want…
In case you missed the memo, Dublin three-piece Shrug Life released one of the Irish albums of the year, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, last month. Directed by long-time collaborator Dave Knox, the video for the album’s opening track and latest single ‘First World Problems’ is – in the band’s own, suitably spot on words – “a schizophrenic split-screen of life’s absurdity – featuring tarot cards, frenemies and “crap corporate coffee” along the way”. And just when we thought we couldn’t dig the track any more. Have a first look at the Knox’s visuals below.
Back in January, TTA’s Cathal McBride hailed Love, the second album from Galway’s David Boland AKA New Pope. The latest single to be taken from the release, the album’s title track – which McBride said “set out Boland’s stall immediately” – is a pure distillation of what sets Boland apart from many of his tale-wielding peers. Now, comprised of footage from the 1961 anti-drug educational film Seduction of the Innocent, the track comes accompanied by visuals that mirror the trials and tribulations of the L word that Boland tussles with throughout the album. Have a peek below. Photo by Gary McCafferty