• Queens of the Stone Age Set For 3Arena

    June 15, 2017 - By 

    Coinciding with the announcement of their forthcoming, Mark Ronson-produced seventh studio album, Villains, it’s been revealed that Queens of the Stone Age will play Dublin’s 3Arena on Friday, November 24. Tickets are priced from €50.65 including booking fees go on sale on Thursday, June 22 at 9am. Fancy winning a pair of tickets to the show before they go on sale? Simply Like our Facebook page here and send your answer to the following question to info@thethinair.net: What is the title of QOTSA’s second studio album? Speaking about the new album – which is released on August 25 – Josh Homme…

  • Stream: Bicep – Aura

    June 15, 2017 - By 

    Hold the phone: London-via-Belfast electronic duo Andy Ferguson and Matt McBriar AKA Bicep are back with one almighty banger. Lifted from the pair’s forthcoming Ninja Tune-released debut album – set to drop on September 1 – ‘Aura’ is a slick, beat-heavy and brilliantly propulsive five-minute effort that aims straight for the sonic jugular.

  • Irish Tour: Arcade Fire

    June 16, 2017 - By 

    Canadian indie trailblazers Arcade Fire live at Belfast’s Belsonic and Dublin’s Malahide Castle. Words by Jonny Currie and Robert Higgins; photos by Colm Laverty and Aaron Corr. Belsonic, Belfast Photos by Colm Laverty After previous failed attempts to attract Arcade Fire to Belfast, the Montreal nine-piece kick-off this year’s Belsonic line-up ahead of the release of fifth album Everything Now. The long-overdue visit is acknowledged by frontman Win Butler, revealing that they have chosen to spend the last three days in Northern Ireland. Landfill indie trailblazers The Kooks resurface this evening in support, gurning and yelping through an hour of turgid…

  • Watch: Group Zero – Pyramid of Light/Love And The Present

    June 15, 2017 - By 

    Girls Names‘ frontman Cathal Cully AKA Group Zero recently dropped one of the Irish albums of the year so far in the form of Structures and Light, a release we said “traversed brittle cold wave gems, pre-dawn electro throwdowns and shivering industrial instrumentalism over ten tracks, each as commanding as the last”. Released via Belfast imprint Touch Sensitive, the album has a new single, ‘Pyramid of Light/Love And The Present’ – a double-sided, softly rapt peak highlight now masterfully bolstered by Dublin-based visual artist Dorje De Burgh’s visual accompaniment. Speaking of the video De Burgh said, “The visual that accompanies ‘Pyramid of…

  • Watch: Malojian – Some New Bones

    June 13, 2017 - By 

    Having released one of the Irish albums of last year in the Steve Albini-produced This Is Nowhere, Stevie Scullion’s Malojian have spent the last while working on its follow-up, the brilliantly-titled Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home. The lead track from that, ‘Some New Bones’ is a spirited return that marries psych-dappled textures and a Motorik groove with swaggering guitar patterns and brief passages of sublime orchestration. Adding another dimension to the release is Colm Laverty’s stellar video, which comprises archive footage from BFI’s digital archive and newly-shot footage from Malojian’s recording sessions at Rathlin East Lighthouse in February. Combined, the…

  • Bon Iver Set For Sounds From a Safe Harbour

    June 13, 2017 - By 

    With The National already announced, it’s been revealed that Bon Iver will play Cork’s Sounds from a Safe Harbour festival on Friday, September 15. Set to return from September 14-17, more acts for the annual festival – which is curated by Bryce & Aaron Dessner, Cillian Murphy, Enda Walsh and Mary Hicksonare – are yet to be announced. Tickets go on sale via the Cork Opera House website on Wednesday, June 21 at 10am.

  • Album Premiere: Bear Worship – WAS

    June 13, 2017 - By 

    Back in January last year, we were pleased to share ‘Our Friends’ by Dublin’s Karl Knuttel AKA Bear Worship. A track we said “evoked everything from the chamber folk balladry of Department of Eagles to the floaty dream-pop of Candy Claws” it marked the arrival of an artist with remarkable potential. Having moved to Shanghai, Barcelona and back to Dublin in the meantime, Knuttel has come good and then some on his sublime, nine-track debut album WAS. A prismatic traipse of melodically rich, compositionally ambitious alt-pop, the likes of the subtly ecstatic ‘Shimmerings’ and ‘Galapagos’ conjure the aforementioned acts, Grizzly Bear,…

  • Stream: Rory Nellis – All I Ever Wanted Was a Chance

    June 13, 2017 - By 

    Set to headline a free Thin Air show at Lavery’s in Belfast on Thursday night, Rory Nellis remains one of our favourite solo artists from these shores. The fifth consecutive single from his forthcoming album, There Are Enough Songs In The World, ‘All I Ever Wanted Was A Chance’ is a full-band alt-pop gem that tussles with disenchantment and apathy in masterful fashion, revealing a darker yet no less incandescent shade to Nellis’ expansive musical palette.

  • Full Line-Up Announced for Celtronic

    June 12, 2017 - By 

    Set to return to Derry for its 17th outing across June 28-July 2, the full programme for Ireland’s leading electronic music festival, Celtronic, has been announced. Kicking off on June 28 with a massive party at St Columbs Hall with The Black Madonna, Mike Servito and Deep Fried Funk DJs, Carl Craig, Ellen Allien, Ben UFO, Move D, Levon Vincent, Job Jobse, Ryan Vail and many more will also make an appearance over the five days. The full line-up and access to buy tickets are available to buy here.

  • Win Tickets to Mother Pride Block Party

    June 12, 2017 - By 

    Featuring live sets from Scandinavian artist Loreen, Daithi and Faune – as well as DJ sets from Panti Bliss and the Mother DJs, and performances from Veda and Her Witches – Mother’s downright unmissable Pride Block Party takes over Tivoli Grounds on Saturday, June 24. To be in with a chance of winning a pair of tickets to the event, simply Like our Facebook page and send your answer to the following question to info@thethinair.net: Daithi hails from which Irish county? Good luck!