• The Thin Air Tracks of the Week: Cloud Nothings, Æ MAK, Foxygen, Irma Vep etc.

    October 13, 2016 - By 

    While it’s been significantly quieter on the home front compared to last week, the last few days have yielded some serious gems here in Ireland and much further afield. Here’s The Thin Air’s Tracks of the Week, featuring Cloud Nothings, Æ MAK, Myronik and more. Irma Vep – Still Sorry Sublime psych-pop from the Manchester-based DIY artist. AE MAK – I Can Feel It In My Bones One of Ireland most singular acts return with an almighty earwormer. Cloud Nothings – Modern Act Here, the new Cloud Nothings (pictured above) sounds very Cloud Nothings-y. This a good thing. Buckles n’ Son…

  • For Love Nor Money: An Interview with Gross Net

    October 13, 2016 - By 

    Ahead of the release of his stellar debut LP via Touch Sensitive in November, Girls Names’ guitarist Philip Quinn AKA Gross Net talks to Brian Coney about money, sanity, impetus, authenticity and the fact “we’re all fucked”. Photos by Diarmuid Kennedy You release Quantitative Easing, on November 25. It follows on from Outstanding Debt, your collection of re-commissioned tracks from aborted releases. Once again, money is the pervading theme here. Cast your mind back ten years ago, did you ever envisage it taking such a hold over your art? Well… ten years ago releasing music, or making a slight bit of income…

  • Winter Party ’16

    October 13, 2016 - By 

    Rightly billed as @the biggest electronic party of the year@, Winter Party ’16 will take over Dublin’s 3Arena this Halloween Bank Holiday Sunday (October 30) with Sven Hath, Hot Since 82, a DJ Set from Jon Hopkins, Matador (Live), Dan Stritch, Skream and more. Promising a full sound, lighting and special FX production package, it’s set to be a 9 hour throwdown followed by a city takeover with the following afterparties running to late> Knee Deep in Dublin: Hot Since 82 and Emanuel Satie @ Button Factory Skream (All Night Long) @ Opium Rooms Leon Vynehall @ Wah Wah Club…

  • The Altered Hours Announce Irish Fall Tour

    October 10, 2016 - By 

    Having released and widely toured their debut album In Heat Not Sorry at the start of the year, Cork psych five-piece – and arguably the country’s very best live proposition right now – The Altered Hours have announced a four-date Irish fall tour. To coincide with the dates, IHNS has been re-pressed and will be available on limited edition orange vinyl via Art For Blind Records, Penske Recordings and at all upcoming gigs. Check out the dates – and a tour promo video – below. November 18: Lavery’s, Belfast December 3:  Kasbah Social Club, Limerick December 10: The Kino, Cork December 15: The Grand Social, Dublin…

  • Watch: Buckles n’ Son – Pancake Paradise

    October 8, 2016 - By 

    A self-proclaimed weird hip-hop duo, Dublin’s Conor Buckley and Shawn Mkandala AKA Buckles n’ Son caught our attention with their superb cover of Thundercat’s ‘Them Changes’ back in May. With its wonderfully warped melange of hip-hop beats, woozy synths, blips, beeps, bizarro lyrics and soulful/psycho vocal zig-zagging, the multi-instrumentalist pair have returned with new single,  ‘Pancake Paradise’. Watch its video – directed by Alex Harrison and featuring animation/co-direction from Kav – below. ‘Pancake Paradise’ is taken from Buckles n’ Son’s forthcoming five-track EP, Demo, which is launched via Clockwork on Friday (October 14) at Dublin’s Wigwam.

  • EP Stream: Myronik – North/South

    October 10, 2016 - By 

    A six-track “audio diary” borne from travelling New Zealand for a year, North/South by 25 year old Dublin producer Liam Myers AKA Myronik features collected samples of various sounds and environments, from birds to instruments to various sound objects that Myers tried to recreate the emotions that “this amazing country evoked in me.” But far from an ad hoc series of tracks made simply to time-freeze a fond journey, the release is a masterfully assembled document of pastoral ambient, understated electronica and inspired experimentalism. In case you missed it, check out our Track Record with Myronik here. North/South by Myronik

  • The Thin Air Tracks of the Week: J Mascis, Solar Bears, Thee Oh Sees, Enemies etc.

    October 6, 2016 - By 

    You know, we got thinking: three years in, it’s really about time that we started herding up our very favourite tracks – Irish and international – and putting them in one place, each and every week. That very obvious thought developed into a very simple plan (ten or so positively must-hear tracks every Thursday) and here we are. This is it. You are here. Dig below. Enemies – ‘itsallwaves’ RIP Enemies. Don’t miss their farewell show at Vicar Street in December. J Mascis – ‘Waltz 2’ (Elliott Smith cover) It probably shouldn’t work but it does. Go here, man. Crystal…

  • Dublin Digital Radio Launch Party

    October 6, 2016 - By 

    On Saturday, October 8, Dublin Digital Radio will host a BYOB launch party at Dublin’s Jigsaw in the company of Breen, Noid The Droid, Bukeepsie Boys, Daire Carolan, Dream Cycles, Cáit, Melly and Ellll (pictured above). Kicking off around 2pm, the launch 0 which will be streamed via DDR’s new website here – will run on to around 10pm. Entry is through donation (suggested between €5 – €10) and all proceeds will go towards studio equipment, rent, bills etc. Dedicated to “providing a quality platform for the various communities striving to create a socially and culturally progressive city in a landscape netted…

  • Gigs of the Week: Stars of The Lid, Twitch, David Holmes, HWCH & Cathy Davey

    October 6, 2016 - By 

    While this year’s Hard Working Class Heroes in Dublin is undoubtedly the biggest draw in the country this weekend, it seems we’ve chose a particularly to re-launch our Gigs of the Week feature, a weekly round-up looking at (would you believe?) some of the very best and downright unmissable shows taking place – North and South – over the next few days. Cathy Davey Spirit Store, Dundalk Friday, October 7 Having just released her beguiling fourth studio album, New Forest, Cathy Davey (pictured above) has quickly re-established herself as one of the country’s most intriguing solo propositions. Also playing host to…